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Tagliacozzo, Eric
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Research
research overview
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- Modern Southeast Asia
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Publications
individual publications
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academic article
- Contraband and Violence: Lessons from the Southeast Asian Case. Crime, Law and Social Change. 52:243-252. 2009
- Navigating Communities: Race, Place, and Travel in the History of Maritime Southeast Asia. Asian Ethnicity. 10:97-120. 2009
- The National Archives (Jakarta) and the Writing of Transnational Histories of Indonesia. Itinerario. 32:81-95. 2008
- Morphological Shifts in Southeast Asian Prostitution: The Long Twentieth Century. Journal of Global History. 3:251-273. 2008
- An Urban Ocean: Notes on the Historical Evolution of Coastal Cities in Greater Southeast Asia. Journal of Urban History. 33:911-932. 2007
- Thinking Marginally: Ethno-Historical Notes on the Nature of Smuggling in Human Societies. Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. 18:144-163. 2007
- The Lit Archipelago: Coast Lighting and the Imperial Optic in Insular Southeast Asia, 1860-1910. Technology and Culture. 46:306-328. 2005
- Ambiguous Commodities, Unstable Frontiers: The Case of Burma, Siam, and Imperial Britain, 1800-1900. Comparative Studies in Society and History. 46:354-377. 2004
- A Necklace of Fins: Marine Goods Trading in Maritime Southeast Asia, 1780-1860. International Journal of Asian Studies. 1:23-48. 2004
- Finding Captivity Among the Peasantry: The Malay/Indonesian World, 1850-1925. South East Asia Research. 11:171-200. 2003
- Smuggling in Southeast Asia: History and its Contemporary Vectors in an Unbounded Region. Critical Asian Studies. 34:193-220. 2002
- Trade, Production, and Incorporation: The Indian Ocean in Flux, 1600-1900. Itinerario. 26:75-106. 2002
- Border Permeability and the State in Southeast Asia: Contraband and Regional Security. Contemporary Southeast Asia. 23:254-274. 2001
- Kettle on a Slow Boil: Batavia's Threat Perceptions in the Indies' Outer Islands, 1870-1910. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 31:70-100. 2000
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- Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865-1915. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2005
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- Onto the Coasts and Into the Forests: Ramifications of the China Trade on the Ecological History of Northwest Borneo, 900-1900 CE. Histories of the Borneo Environment : Economic, Political and Social Dimensions of Change and Continuity. 25-60. 2005
- Tropical Spaces, Frozen Frontiers: The Evolution of Border Enforcement in Nineteenth Century Insular Southeast Asia. Locating Southeast Asia: Geographies of Knowledge and Politics of Space. 149-174. 2005
- Border-Line Legal: Chinese Communities and ‘Illicit’ Activity in Insular Southeast Asia, Mid to Late Nineteenth Century. Maritime China in Transition 1750-1850. 61-76. 2004
selected publications listing
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- "Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865-1915" (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005). 437 pp.
- “Onto the Coast and Into the Forest: Ramifications of the China Trade on the History of Northwest Borneo, 900-1900” in Reed Wadley (ed), Histories of the Borneo Environment, (Leiden: KITLV Press), 2005: 25-60.
- “The Lit Archipelago: Coastlighting and the Imperial Optic in Insular Southeast Asia, 1860-1910” Technology and Culture (Johns Hopkins University Press), 46, 2, 2005: 306-328.
- “Ambiguous Commodities, Unstable Frontiers: The Case of Burma, Siam, and Imperial Britain, 1800-1900”, Comparative Studies in Society and History, (Cambridge University Press) 46: 2, 2004: 354-377.
- “Tropical Spaces, Frozen Frontiers: The Evolution of Border Enforcement in Nineteenth Century Insular Southeast Asia” in Remco Raben, et al., (eds), Locating Southeast Asia, (Ohio/Singapore University Presses), 2004: 149-174.
- “A Necklace of Fins: Marine Goods Trading in Maritime Southeast Asia, 1780-1860” International Journal of Asian Studies [Cambridge University Press], 1/1, 2004: 23-48.
- "Border-Line Legal: Chinese Communities and ‘Illicit’ Activity in Insular Southeast Asia" in Ng Chin Keong (ed) Maritime China and the Overseas Chinese in Transition, 1750-1850, (Wiesbaden: HV, 2004): 61-76.
- “Finding Captivity Among the Peasantry: The Malay/Indonesian World, 1850-1925”, South East Asia Research, [University of London Press] 11/2, 2003: 171-200.
- “Hydrography, Technology, Coercion: Mapping the Sea in Southeast Asian Imperialism, 1850-1900” Archipel: Etudes Interdisciplinaires sur le Monde Insulindien, [Ecole des Hautes Etudes/SS, Paris], 65, 2003: 89-107.
- “Amphora, Whisper, Text: Ways of Writing Southeast Asian History” CROSSROADS: Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, [N. Illinois University Press] 16/1, 2002: 128-158.
- “Smuggling in Southeast Asia: History and its Contemporary Vectors in an Unbounded Region” Critical Asian Studies, (Routledge), 34/2, 2002: 193-220.
- “Trade, Production, and Incorporation: The Indian Ocean in Flux, 1600-1900” Itinerario: European Journal of Overseas History, [Leiden University Press] 26/1, 2002: 75-106.
- "Kettle on a Slow Boil: Batavia's Threat Perceptions in the Indies' Outer Islands, 1870-1910" Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, [Cambridge and Singapore University Presses] 31, #1, 2000: 70-100
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Teaching
teaching activities
- ASIAN-3396: Southeast Asian History from the Eighteenth Century - Spring 2013
- ASIAN-6696: Southeast Asian History from the Eighteenth Century - Spring 2013
- HIST-2001: Supervised Reading - Undergraduate - Spring 2013
- HIST-3002: Supervised Research - Undergraduate - Spring 2013
- HIST-3960: Southeast Asian History from the Eighteenth Century - Spring 2013
- HIST-4000: Honors Proseminar - Spring 2013
- HIST-6960: Southeast Asian History from the Eighteenth Century - Spring 2013
- HIST-8004: Supervised Reading - Spring 2013
- ASIAN-1191: Introduction to Modern Asian History - Fall 2012
- CAPS-1910: Introduction to Modern Asian History - Fall 2012
- HIST-1402: FWS: Global Islam - Fall 2012
- HIST-1910: Introduction to Modern Asian History - Fall 2012
- HIST-2001: Supervised Reading - Undergraduate - Fall 2012
- HIST-3002: Supervised Research - Undergraduate - Fall 2012
- HIST-8004: Supervised Reading - Fall 2012
- HIST-8005: Supervised Reading - Fall 2012
- HIST-2001: Supervised Reading - Undergraduate - Spring 2012
- HIST-3002: Supervised Research - Undergraduate - Spring 2012
- HIST-8004: Supervised Reading - Spring 2012
- ASIAN-2228: Indian Ocean World - Fall 2011
- ASIAN-3397: Monsoon Kingdoms: Pre-Modern Southeast Asian History - Fall 2011
- ASIAN-6697: Southeast Asian History to the Eighteenth Century - Fall 2011
- HIST-2001: Supervised Reading - Fall 2011
- HIST-2280: Indian Ocean World - Fall 2011
- HIST-3002: Supervised Research - Fall 2011
- HIST-3950: Monsoon Kingdoms: Pre-Modern Southeast Asian History - Fall 2011
- HIST-6950: Southeast Asian History to the Eighteenth Century - Fall 2011
- HIST-8004: Supervised Reading - Fall 2011
- HIST-8005: Supervised Reading - Fall 2011
Service
current professional activities
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- Society for the Humanities Faculty Fellow 2008/2009
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., Yale University 1999
- M.Phil., Yale University 1995
- M.A., Yale University 1993
- B.A., Haverford College 1989
awards and honors
- Harry J. Benda Prize, 2007
- National Endowment for the Humanities Mini-Grant , 2005
- Smithsonian/CAORC Grant , 2005
- Asia Research Institute, Singapore , 2003
- Faculty Fulbright, IIE , 2003
- Cornell Society for the Humanities, 2001
- Cornell History Department Grant, 2001
- Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship , 1999
- Mary and Arthur Wright Prize, 1999
- Fulbright Fellowship, 1997