The first organisation to sponsor and promote Thai Studies was the Siam Society, established in 1904.
[1] The Siam Society and the affiliated Siamese Heritage Protection Trust maintain an extensive library of Thai studies materials and exhibits.
The Thailand Information Center (TIC) at Chulalongkorn's main library maintains a repository of research materials for Thai studies.
[4] Cornell University was the first active center for Thai studies in the United States.
In 1947, Lauriston Sharp began the Cornell-Thailand Project, an initiative to collate baseline data in a comprehensive study of what was then a farming village on the outskirts of Bangkok, now Tambon Bang Chan (Thai: บางชัน) in Bangkok's Khlong Sam Wa District (คลองสามวา).