Learning Curve

This section focuses on fraternity history at the Oregon State University, where I was enrolled as a graduate student from 1994-1997. It follow fraternities from their origins as humble “student societies” to their powerful financial investments in prime real estate. Locally, there has been many struggles by the university institute to control fraternity growth via housing policies and social codes. (more…)

This article focuses on the first wave of foreigners to ever work in Ayutthaya’s industrial parks. This initial expatriate boom started in the 1990s and continues today. This material is based on an interview with a sometimes frustrated expatriate who sought to invest in a handicraft village that makes knives and swords. (more…)