Jon Fernquest
Jon Fernquest (BA, MSc Applied Economics) has worked as a computer
programmer at Stanford University and corporations throughout the
United States (Bristol-Myers Squibb, Warner Cable, James River) and has
taught business English in Thailand, Myanmar, and South Korea at
universities (Kon Kuk in Seoul and Mae Fah Luang in Chiang Rai) and
corporations (Posco, Samsung Electronics, Fujitsu-Korea, LG). In 1994
he received a FLAS scholarship from the United States government to
study Burmese at the University of Wisconsin and since then has worked
independently on the history of state expansion during the First
Toungoo dynasty of Burma (1486-1599) culminating in several recent
publications (See
list
of publications).
