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Tamara Loos | |
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Occupation | Professor of History |
Academic background | |
Education | Pomona College, Cum Laude in Asian Studies Cornell University, Masters Southeast Asian History Cornell University, PhD, Major field in Southeast Asian History; Minor fields in Modern Chinese History and Women’s Studies |
Alma mater | Pomona College |
Doctoral advisor | David Wyatt[1] |
Other advisors | Ben Anderson[2] |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Educator and Author |
Sub-discipline | South East Asia, Thailand |
Institutions | Cornell University |
Tamara Loos is a first generation scholar and an American Historian of Southeast Asia, gender, sexuality and transgender at Cornell University
Biography
Tamara Loos is Professor of Southeast Asian history at Cornell University and has served as Chair of the History Department and Director of the Southeast Asia Program.[3] Her first book, Subject Siam: Family, Law, and Colonial Modernity in Thailand[4], explores the implications of Siam's position as both a colonized and colonizing power in Southeast Asia. It is the first study that integrates the Malay Muslim south and the gendered core of law into Thai history. Her most recent book, Bones Around My Neck[5] offers a critical history of Siam during the era of high colonialism through the dramatic and tragic life of a pariah prince, Prisdang Chumsai [6]. Her teaching and articles focus on an array of topics including sex and politics, subversion and foreign policy, sexology, transnational sexualities, comparative law, sodomy, and gender in Asia. She has been interviewed by the BBC[7], The New York Times[8], The Washington Post[9], The Financial Times[10], and other global media outlets about political protests in Thailand[11].
Research Focus
In The News
NPR - Thai Palace Officials Ousted Following Demotion Of Royal Consort: https://www.npr.org/2019/10/24/772939270/thai-senior-palace-officials-ousted-following-demotion-of-royal-consort
PUBLICATIONS: Books, Articles and Book Chapters
- Loos, Tamara (2016). Bones around My Neck: The Life and Exile of a Prince Provocateur. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
- Loos, Tamara (2006). Subject Siam: Family, Law, and Colonial Modernity in Thailand. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
- Loos, Tamara. "Gender, Race, and Social Morphogenesis in Colonial Southeast Asia". In Tagliacozzo, Eric (ed.). Oxford Handbook for Southeast Asian History. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Forthcoming)
- Loos, Tamara. "History of Sex and Sexuality in Southeast Asia, 1800-2020s". In Cribb, Robert (ed.). Cambridge History of Southeast Asia: Vol. III. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Forthcoming)
- Loos, Tamara (November 2020). "Reading Gender Trouble in Southeast Asia". The Journal of Asian Studies. 79 (4): 927-946.
- Loos, Tamara (2020). "Thailand's King and His Consort in Context". Southeast Asia Program Bulletin. Spring.
- Loos, Tamara (2019). "Deploying Theravada Buddhist Geographies in the Age of Imperialism". In Tagliacozzo, Eric (ed.). Asia Inside Out: Mobile Peoples. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Loos, Tamara (2018). "Respectability's Edge: The Imperial Sexuality of French Sexologist René Guyon". Sexualities. 23 (1–2): 146-160.
- Loos, Tamara (2017). "The Birth of Mistresses and Bastards: A History of Marriage in Siam (Thailand)". In Moses, Julia (ed.). Marriage, Law and Modernity: Global Histories. London: Bloomsbury, World History Series.
- Loos, Tamara (2017). "Jeffrey Alan Hadler, March 17, 1968 to January 11, 2017". Southeast Asia Program Bulletin. Spring.
- Loos, Tamara (April 2016). "Belonging: Ben Anderson and Siam". Indonesia. 101: 7–13.
- Loos, Tamara (2015). "Historical Consulting on the Set of Broadway's The King and I". Southeast Asia Program Bulletin. Fall.
- Loos, Tamara (2015). "Renegade Royalist: Autobiography and Siam's Disavowed Prince Prisdang". In Peleggi, Maurizio (ed.). Clio in a Phanung: Ten Essays on the Cultural and Intellectual History of Thailand. Ithaca: Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University. p. 63-77.
- Loos, Tamara (2015). "King Mongkut's Siam (Thailand)". Lincoln Center Theater Review. 65 (Spring): 4–7. https://issuu.com/lctheater/docs/tki.forissuu/5?e=3822525/11631234
- Loos, Tamara (2015). "Dilemmas of Development: Dr. Krisana Kraisintu's Praxis in Asia and Africa". In Weber, Ralph; Tantrakul, Sven (eds.). Delimiting Modernities: Conceptual Challenges and Regional Responses. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
- Loos, Tamara (2014). "Life Commitments: Benedict Anderson's Scholarship on Thailand". Exploration and Irony in Studies of Siam over Forty Years. Ithaca: Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University. pp. 1–26.
- Loos, Tamara (June 2012). "Besmirched with Blood: an Emotional History of Transnational Romance in Colonial Singapore". Rethinking History. 16 (2): 199–220.
- {{cite book |author1=Loos, Tamara |title=Cocktail: A Play about the Life and HIV Drug Development Work of Dr. Krisana Kraisintu |date=2009 |publisher=Silkworm Books |location=Chiang Mai |pages=vii-xxv |chapter=Introduction.” (Translated into Thai by Silkworm Books.) https://ezramagazine.cornell.edu/Update/Feb10/EU.Loos.Krisana.html
- Loos, Tamara (2009). "Competitive Colonialisms: Siam and Britain on the Malay Muslim Border". In Harrison, Rachel; Jackson, Peter (eds.). The Ambiguous Allure of the West: Traces of the Colonial in Thailand. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. pp. 75–91.
- Loos, Tamara (December 2009). "Transnational, Colonial and National Histories of Sexualities in Asia". American Historical Review. 114: 1309–1324.
- Loos, Tamara (2008). "The Politics of Sexual Violence in Siam". Jutyun: warasan satriniyom thai (Stance: the Thai Feminist Review). 2: 21–52.
- Loos, Tamara (February 2008). "A History of Sex and the State in Southeast Asia: Class, Intimacy and Invisibility". Citizenship Studies: Special Issue on International Marriage, Rights and the State in Southeast and East Asia. 12 (1).
- Loos, Tamara (2007). "In Celebration of Professor David Kent Wyatt". Southeast Asia Program Bulletin (Fall).
- Loos, Tamara (April 2006). "Invited Commentary on Michael Peletz, "Where are all the transgendered ritual specialists? Gender pluralism in Southeast Asia since early modern times". Current Anthropology. 47 (2).
- Loos, Tamara (November 2005). "Sex in the Inner City: The Fidelity between Sex and Politics in Siam". The Journal of Asian Studies. 64 (4): 881–909.
- Loos, Tamara (2004–2005). "Siam's Subjects: Muslims, Law, and Colonialism in Southern Thailand". Southeast Asia Program Bulletin (Winter–Spring): 6–11.
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- Loos, Tamara (2004). "The Politics of Women's Suffrage in Thailand". In Roces, Mina; Edwards, Louise (eds.). Women’s Suffrage in Asia: Gender, Nationalism and Democracy. London: RoutledgeCurzon Press. pp. 170–194.
- Loos, Tamara (1998). "Issaraphap: The Limits of Individual Liberty in Thai Jurisprudence". Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 12 (1): 35–75.
- Loos, Tamara (13 February 1996). "Balancing the Scales of Justice". Thailand Times English Daily (Bangkok).
- Loos, Tamara (1994). "Critical Introduction". Five Years in Siam: From 1891-1896 by H. Warington Smyth (1994 [1898] ed.). Bangkok: White Lotus.(Also published on the web in December 2002 by Lewis P. Orans at https://www.pinetreeweb.com/hw-smyth-five-years-00.htm)
PUBLICATIONS: Book Reviews
- Becoming Queer and Religious in Malaysia and Singapore by Sharon A. Bong. Canadian Journal of History 57, 3 (Dec. 2022).
- Amnesia: A History of Democratic Idealism in Modern Thailand by Arjun Subrahmanyan Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (forthcoming).
- Silence and Sacrifice: Family Stories of Care and the Limits of Love in Vietnam by Merav Shohet. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 59, 10 (June 2022).
- Woman Between Two Kingdoms: Dara Rasami and the Making of Modern Thailand by Leslie Castro-Woodhouse. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 59, 4 (Dec. 2021).
- Black Market Business: Selling Sex in Northern Vietnam, 1920-1945 by Christina Firpo. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 59, 1 (Sept. 2021).
- Future Forward: The Rise and Fall of a Thai Political Party by Duncan McCargo. Foreign Affairs (May/June 2021), 10.
- The Crown and the Capitalists: the Ethnic Chinese and the Founding of the Thai Nation by Wasana Wongsurawat. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 58, 7 (March 2021).
- Moments of Silence: The Unforgetting of the October 6, 1976 Massacre in Bangkok by Thongchai Winichakul. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 58, 4 (Dec. 2020).
- Fighting for Virtue: Justice and Politics in Thailand by Duncan McCargo. Foreign Affairs (Sept./Oct. 2020).
- Fighting for Virtue: Justice and Politics in Thailand by Duncan McCargo. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 58, 2 (Oct. 2020).
- Kicking Center: Gender and the Selling of Women’s Professional Soccer by Rachel Allison. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (Feb. 2019).
- Letters from St. Petersburg: A Siamese Prince at the Court of the Last Tsar. Translation and commentary by Narisa Chakrabongse. Journal of the Siam Society, Vol. 106 (Jan. 2018): 336-339.
- The Uprooted: Race, Children, and Imperialism in French Indochina, 1890-1980 by Christina Firpo. Journal of Asian Studies 76, 3 (Aug. 2017): 826-827.
- The History of Ayutthaya: Siam in the Early Modern World by Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit. Bangkok Post (28 June 2017). http://www.bangkokpost.com/lifestyle/book/1291251/a-lucid-look-at-the-old-kingdom
- Viet Nam: Tradition and Change, by Hu’u Ngoc. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (March 2017).
- Thailand’s Theory of Monarchy: The Vessantara Jataka and the Idea of the Perfect Man by Patrick Jory. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 54, 3 (Nov. 2016).
- Deciphering Southern Thailand’s Violence: Organization and Insurgent Practices of BRN-Coordinate by Sascha Helbardt. Asian Studies Review (Australia) 40, 3 (Sept. 2016): 474-475.
- Religious Influences in Thai Female Education, 1889-1931 by Runchana P. Suksod-Barger. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 47, 1 (Feb. 2016).
- The History of Emotions: An Introduction by Jan Plamper. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (Oct. 2015).
- Gambling, the State and Society in Thailand, c. 1800-1945 by James A. Warren. South-East Asia Research 22, 3 (Sept. 2014): 441-443.
- Doing Emotions History edited by Susan J. Matt and Peter N. Stearns. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (July 2014).
- Asian Women and Intimate Work edited by Ochiai Emiko and Aoyama Kaoru. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (June 2014).
- Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity edited by J. Barker, E. Harms, and J. Lindquist. Indonesia 97 (April 2014).
- Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia by Ayu L. Saraswati Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (Sept. 2013).
- Imagining Gay Paradise: Bali, Bangkok, and Cyber-Singapore by Gary L. Atkins. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (Sept. 2012).
- Luc Xi: Prostitution and Venereal Disease in Colonial Hanoi by Vu Trong Phung. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (Nov. 2011).
- Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China by Tianlian Zheng. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (Feb. 2010).
- Bombay Anna: the Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of the King and I Governess by Susan Morgan. Journal of Historical Biography 5 (Spring 2009): 146-152.
- Khmer Women on the Move: Exploring Work and Life in Urban Cambodia by Annuska Derks. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (June 2009).
- Pirates, Prostitutes and Pullers: Explorations in the Ethno- and Social History of Southeast Asia by James Warren. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (May 2009).
- The Emotions: A Cultural Reader ed. by Helena Wulff. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (Oct. 2008).
- Thailand: The Worldly Kingdom by Maurizio Peleggi. Journal of Southeast Asia Research 15, 3 (Nov. 2007).
- Seditious Histories: Contesting Thai and Southeast Asian Pasts by Craig J. Reynolds. The Historian 69, 4 (Winter 2007): 805-806.
- Male Bodies, Womens Souls: Personal Narratives of Thailand’s Transgendered Youth by LeeRay Costa and Andrew Matzner. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (Oct. 2007).
- The Flaming Womb: Repositioning Women in Early Modern Southeast Asia by Barbara W. Andaya. Pacific Affairs 80, 1 (Spring 2007).
- The Flaming Womb: Repositioning Women in Early Modern Southeast Asia by Barbara W. Andaya. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (Feb. 2007).
- Legal Evolution and Political Authority in Indonesia: Selected Essays by Daniel S. Lev. Indonesia (April 2005).
- Lords of Things: The Fashioning of the Siamese Monarchy's Modern Image by Maurizio Peleggi. The Historian 66/02 (2004).
- Woman, Man, Bangkok: Love, Sex and Popular Culture in Thailand by Scot Barmé. The Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (June 2003).
- Sex and Borders: Gender, National Identity, and Prostitution Policy in Thailand by Leslie Ann Jeffrey. The Journal of Asian Studies 62:2 (May 2003).
- Other Pasts, ed. by Barbara Watson Andaya. The Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (June 2002).
- Re Orient: Change in Asian Societies by Aat Vervoorn. Indonesia (Oct. 2000).
Notes
- ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_K._Wyatt
- ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Anderson
- ^ https://history.cornell.edu/tamara-loos
- ^ https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801443930/subject-siam/#bookTabs=1
- ^ https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501704635/bones-around-my-neck/#bookTabs=1.
- ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisdang(1852–1935)
- ^ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50134690
- ^ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/world/asia/thailand-king-consort-wives.html
- ^ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/10/16/thailand-demonstrations-democracy-protest-ban/
- ^ https://www.ft.com/content/f16dea09-1763-4a7a-b159-d7dd8a672d69
- ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020–2021_Thai_protests
- ^ Loos, Tamara (2012). "Strange Bedfellows: Male Homo Eroticism and Politics in Thai History". In Reyes, Raquel; Et., al (eds.). Sexual Diversity in Asia, ca. 600-1950. London: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series.