Eric Tagliacozzo

Eric Tagliacozzo is Professor of History at Cornell University, where he teaches Southeast Asian history. He is the director of Cornell's Comparative Muslim Societies Program, the director of Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, and the contributing editor of Indonesia journal. Tagliacozzo received his B.A. from Haverford College in 1989 and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1999. His teachers include Ben Kiernan, James C. Scott, and Jonathan Spence.[1]

Research

Tagliacozzo's research focuses on the history of people, ideas, and material in motion in and around Southeast Asia, especially in the late colonial age. His first book, Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier (Yale, 2005), which won the 2007 Harry Benda Prize, examined many of these ideas by analyzing the history of smuggling in the region.[2] Several edited volumes also look at Southeast Asia’s connections with the Middle East; at the idea of Indonesia over a two thousand year-period; and at the meeting of History and Anthropology generally (and conceptually) as disciplines. His newest book, The Longest Journey: Southeast Asians and the Pilgrimage to Mecca (Oxford, 2013) attempts to write a history of this very broad topic from earliest times to the present.[3]

Publications

Books

Winner of the Harry J. Benda Prize from the Association of Asian Studies, 2007

Refereed Articles and Book Chapters

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