Eric Tagliacozzo
Associate Professor
Office: 346 McGraw Hall
Phone: (607) 254-6564
Fax: (607) 255-0469
E-Mail: et54@cornell.edu
Office Hours: On Leave
Education
Ph.D. Yale University, 1999
M.Phil Yale University, 1995
M.A. Yale University, 1993
B.A. Haverford College, 1989
Courses
| Fall 2008: | On Leave | |
|---|---|---|
| Spring 2009: | TBA |
Recent Publications
Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865-1915 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005). 437 pp.
"An Urban Ocean: Notes on the Historical Evolution of Coastal Cities in Greater SE Asia" Journal of Urban History (Sage/UNC Press), 33, 6, 2007: 911-932.
“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.
Recent Awards
Harry J. Benda Prize (2007): awarded once a year to the best book by a younger scholar in the field of Southeast Asian Studies, across any and all disciplines.
American Philosophical Society Grant (2007): competitive national grant pays for a research trip to Southeast Asia in 2008 to continue my work on the Hajj.
Smithsonian/CAORC Grant (2005): competitive grant to Yemen and Insular Southeast Asia for three months during the summer of 2006 to continue research on the history of the Hajj from SE Asia to Mecca.
National Endowment for the Humanities Mini-Grant (2005): funded trip to the University of Chicago in June, 2005 to give a public lecture and run a seminar for 25 professors on Early Islamic interactions in the Indian Ocean.
Faculty Fulbright, IIE (2003-4): competitive grant funded the beginnings of work on oral interviewing all over Insular Southeast Asia, doing interviews for an oral history of the Hajj.
Asia Research Institute, Singapore (2003-4): competitive grant funded a study year’s leave away from Cornell to finish first book on smuggling and begin some of the research on a next book on the Hajj.
Cornell Society for the Humanities (2001-2): competitive grant to fund the conference “Clio/Anthropos: Exploring the Boundaries of Anthropology and History.”
Cornell History Department Grant (2001): grant to fund archival research in the Netherlands.
Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship (1999-2000): year-long postdoctoral fellowship to the History Department of the University of British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada.
Mary and Arthur Wright Prize (1999): awarded for the best dissertation on non-Western History at Yale, 1999.
National Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities (1992 Cohort, to 1999): one of 100 nation-wide winners for the last installment of full 5 year dissertation packages to various American universities.
Fulbright Fellowship (1997): nine month grant to Singapore and Indonesia to collect archival materials and undertake fieldwork toward completion of the dissertation.