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Matthew Walton is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He was previously the inaugural Aung San Suu Kyi Senior Research Fellow in Modern Burmese Studies at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. His research primarily focuses on religion and politics in Southeast Asia, with a special emphasis on Buddhism in Myanmar. Walton's book, 'Buddhism, Politics, and Political Thought in Myanmar,' published in 2016 by Cambridge University Press, highlights the intersection of these themes in a comprehensive manner. He is currently engaged in a comparative study of Buddhist political thought within the Theravada Buddhist world. His articles have appeared in prominent journals such as Politics & Religion, the Journal of Burma Studies, the Journal of Contemporary Asia, the Journal of Contemporary Buddhism, Law & Society, and Asian Survey. Walton is also the principal investigator of an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)-funded two-year research project titled 'Understanding “Buddhist Nationalism” in Myanmar' and is a co-founder of the Myanmar Media Society, which includes a project related to the Burma/Myanmar blog Tea Circle.
Department of Sociology