Napakadol Kittisenee is an anthropologist of mainland Southeast Asia and a historian of borderlands and Theravāda Buddhism. His research interests include coloniality, decolonization, transbordering research methods, migration, diasporic religions, cosmology as well as the predicament of spirituality in the social and environmental transformations with a particular attention to the human and non-human relationship. The past engagement with the peace activism in Cambodia from 2010 to 2018 informs his scholarship and practice.
His recent publication appears in an edited book’s chapter titled, “Preserving the Forests and Walks for Peace in Cambodia,” in The Oxford Handbook of Lived Buddhism (2024) published by the Oxford University Press.