Eric Tagliacozzo is the John Stambaugh Professor of

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, where he teaches

Southeast Asian history The history of Southeast Asia covers the people of Southeast Asia from prehistory to the present in two distinct sub-regions: Mainland Southeast Asia (or Indochina) and Maritime Southeast Asia (or Insular Southeast Asia). Mainland Southeast A ...

. He is the director of Cornell's Comparative Muslim Societies Program, the director of the Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, and the contributing editor of the journal ''Indonesia''. Tagliacozzo received his B.A. from Haverford College in 1989 and his Ph.D. from

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in 1999. Tagliacozzo studied with

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, and

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in the History Department at Yale University.

Research and Teaching

Tagliacozzo has focused much of his scholarship on the late colonial era in Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on people in motion, including the migration of ideas and materials. His first book, ''Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865-1915'' (Yale, 2005), was an analysis of colonial frontier enforcement and contraband activity, and the far-reaching effects of its political economies. It won the 2007 Harry J. Benda Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies. Several edited volumes also look at Southeast Asia's connections with the

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; at the idea of

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over a two thousand year-period; and at the meeting of History and Anthropology generally (and conceptually) as disciplines. ''The Longest Journey: Southeast Asians and the Pilgrimage to Mecca'' (Oxford, 2013) examines transnational movement over a span of seven centuries in the first comprehensive history of the Hajj across the

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. Several edited volumes also look at Southeast Asia's connections with the

; at the idea of

over a two thousand year-period; and at the meeting of History and Anthropology generally (and conceptually) as disciplines. Tagliacozzo was the Hung Leung Hau Ling Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the

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in 2017-2018. He was cited as one of the "ten best professors at Cornell," and won the university's Stephen and Margery Russell Teaching Prize in 2016.

Books

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References

External links

Homepage at Cornell

National Public Radio InterviewWater Connections PodcastInterview: "From Istanbul to Tokyo" (Toynbee Prize Foundation)
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