AUTHOR: Ryan Wolfson-Ford

Ryan Wolfson-Ford is a Southeast Asian reference specialist in the Asian Division. He is a specialist of Laos and Thailand and is responsible for mainland Southeast Asia (Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar). He holds a doctorate in Southeast Asian history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to joining the Library of Congress, he was a lecturer of Asian history at Arizona State University.
Most Recent Posts
- The Posters of the Minjung Movement in the 1980s January 30th, 2025
- Indian Independence League Files in the World War II Records from Burma Collection September 30th, 2024
- Now Online: Research Guides and Digitized Indexes for the South Asia Ephemera Collection on Microfiche June 29th, 2024
- From The Library of Suzanne Karpelès: Jewels of Early Cambodian Buddhist Printing and Modernist Khmer and Pali Manuscripts May 27th, 2024
- Celebrating Lunar New Year with the Library of Congress’s Collections February 9th, 2024
- What Were Pakistani Women Reading in the Sixties? A Glance at “Ak̲h̲bār-i k̲h̲avātīn” November 13th, 2023
- The Intersection between Texts and Textiles across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia: a Display and Talk at the Library of Congress September 15th, 2023
- The 500th Post! A Milestone for 4 Corners of the World July 17th, 2023
- “Communism or freedom?”: Thai Anti-Communist Posters at the Library of Congress June 26th, 2023