The anthropological research for Ruben’s Major Research Fellowship (2023-26), funded by the Leverhulme Trust, is concerned with building a synthetic and wide-ranging understanding of the growth of global security agendas in a time of seemingly proliferating crises.

My thesis examines the nature and causes of income inequality in a developing-country context. In particular, it investigates the roles of education and technology in wage distribution in Thailand, which serves as an interesting case study. Over the past three decades, economic development has led to a supply of higher educated wage earners in that country.