Keerati Chenpitayaton

Meet Ajarn Keerati Chenpitayaton, one of the distinguished members of PGS with whom students will have the opportunity to engage deeply with critical questions in sociology, history, and global studies.

Ajarn Keerati teaches and researches in the fields of historical and comparative sociology, global and transnational sociology, social theory, design and urban sociology, and media studies. His work examines the formation of the modern state, colonial encounters, state territoriality, urban and cultural transformations, and the role of media in shaping social meaning, particularly in Southeast Asia within a global historical context. He received his doctoral training from The New School, New York, and holds an M.Phil. in Sociology with Honors and an M.A. in Sociology with Honors from The New School. He is additionally a First-Class Honors graduate of Chulalongkorn University.

His scholarship brings together theory, history, and cultural analysis to challenge conventional understandings of modernization, state development, urban life, and media dynamics. Through comparative perspectives that extend beyond Thailand to regions such as Japan and the Ottoman world, Ajarn Keerati encourages students to view Southeast Asia as part of broader global, spatial, and media-driven processes rather than in isolation.

With Ajarn Keerati, students do not only learn history and theory. They learn how ideas, urban spaces, design, media, and global connections shape political and social change over time.

If you join PGS, Ajarn Keerati is one of the lecturers who will guide you to think critically, question established narratives and develop a deeper understanding of the global forces that shape societies past and present.