Tamara Loos
Associate Professor
Office: 301 McGraw Hall
Phone: (607) 255-5332
Fax: (607) 255-0469
E-Mail: tl14@cornell.edu
Office Hours: TBA
Education
Ph.D Cornell University, 1999
M.A. Cornell University, 1994
B.A. Pomona College, 1989
Courses
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Recent Publications and Awards
Manuscript under review
"Subject Siam: Gender, Justice, and Colonial Modernity." A book-length social history of 19th and early 20th century Siam that focuses on gender, justice, modernity, and national identity through the lenses of family law, the Muslim south, and polygyny.
Articles
"Sex in the Inner City: The Fidelity of Sex and Politics in Siam." The Journal of Asian Studies (2005) (refereed). Forthcoming.
"Siam's Subjects: Muslims, Law, and Colonialism in Southern Thailand," Southeast Aisa Program Bulletin (Fall 2004). Forthcoming..
"The Politics of Women's Suffrage in Thailand," in Women's Suffrage in Asia: Gender, Nationalism and Democracy, edited by Mina Roces and Louise Edwards. London and NY: RoutledgeCurzon Press, 2004: 170-194. .
:Issaraphap: The Limits of Individual Liberty in Thai Jurisprudence," Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 12:1 (1998): 35-75 (refereed)..
Critical Introduction, Five Years in Siam: From 1891-1896, Vols. 1-2, by H. Warington Smyth (Bangkok: White Lotus, 1898, rep. 1994). Also published on the web in December 2002 by Lewis P. Orans at http://www.pinetreeweb.com/hw-smyth-five-years-00.htm.
Awards
J.S. Knight Writing Program Sophomore Seminar Grant, 2004.
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship at Harvard, 2002.
Cornell President's Council of Cornell Women Affinito-Stewart Grant, 2002.
Society for the Humanities Faculty Research Grant, Spring 2002.
Cornell History Department Jr. Faculty Research Grant, Spring 2002.
Cornell History Department Jr. Faculty Research Grant, Spring 2001.
Lauriston Sharp Dissertation Prize, 1999.
Messenger-Chalmers Dissertation Prize, 1999.
Women's Studies Dissertation Fellowship, Spring 1999.
Buttrick-Crippen Fellowship, Honorable Mention, 1998.
Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grant in Women's Studies, 1998.
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, Spring 1998.
Beatrice Brown Award, Cornell Women's Studies Program, 1998.
President's Council of Cornell Women Grant, Cornell University, 1997.