美国的“泰学研究”总是受到美国对泰国的政策以及泰国政治的影响，有些人甚至认为它们是决定性因素。本文追溯了自二战结束至今“泰学研究”在美国的发展。自21世纪初期起，选择泰国研究的美国研究生越来越少。同样，赴美国学习的泰国人也越来越少。然而，美国的泰学研究不会消失。康奈尔大学、威斯康星大学、北伊利诺伊大学、华盛顿大学的图书馆拥有的泰国文献以及其他地方的小型收藏，都将是美国泰学研究的重要学术遗产。今后来自泰国、美国或其他地区的学者们都能在这些文献中找到有助于未来研究的重要资料。
“Thai Studies” in the United States have always been influenced-some would even say on occasion been determined-by American policies regarding Thailand and by Thai politics. In this paper I trace the development of Thai studies in the US from the immediate post-World War II period when a few American scholars began to develop Thai studies to the present day. Since the early twenty-first century，fewer and fewer American graduate students have chosen to study Thailand and fewer and fewer Thai are coming to the US to study. Nonetheless，Thai studies in America will not disappear. The impressive Thai collections at libraries at Cornell，Wisconsin，Northern Illinois University，and the University of Washington and smaller collections elsewhere ensure that there will continue to be a significant scholarly legacy for Thai studies in the United States. Future scholars-from Thailand，the US and elsewhere will be able to find in these collections significant materials for future research.
| Keywords： | The United StatesThailandThai Studies |
