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William P. Cummings <cummings@cas.usf.edu> University of South Florida spread of Islam in Southeast Asia state formation in early modern Southeast Asia historiography colonialism and colonial theory translation studies |
| Address: | 4202 E. Fowler Ave; SOC 107 Department of History University of South Florida Tampa, Florida 33620 United States |
| Primary Phone: | (813) 974-1087 |
| Fax Number: | (813) 974-6228 |
| List Affiliations: | Former Review Editor for H-Asia |
| Interests: | Asian History / Studies |
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Bio: EDUCATION: 1999 Ph.D., History, University of Hawai'i at Manoa 1994 M.A., History, University of Hawai'i at Manoa 1992 M.A., Southeast Asian Studies, Ohio University 1989 B.A., History, Trinity University SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: 2002 Making Blood White: Historical Transformations in Early Modern Makassar. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. This book won the 2004 Harry J. Benda Prize sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies and presented annually to an outstanding new scholar in any discipline who specializes in Southeast Asian studies. 2005 “Historical Texts as Social Maps: Lontaraq Bilang in Early Modern Makassar.” Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 161, 1: 40-62. 2003 “Rethinking the Imbrication of Orality and Literacy: Historical Discourse in Early Modern Makassar.” Journal of Asian Studies 62, 2: 531-551. 2003 "Orientalism's Corporeal Dimension: Tattooed Bodies and Eighteenth-Century Oceans." Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 4, 2. 2001 “Scripting Islamization: Islamic Texts in Early Modern Makassar.” Ethnohistory 48, 4: 559-586. 2001 “The Dynamics of Resistance and Emulation in Makassarese History.” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 32, 3: 423-435. 2000 “Reading the Histories of a Maros Chronicle.” Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 156, 1: 1-31. 1999 “‘One Ruler but Two Peoples:’ Re-Making the Past in Seventeenth-Century Makassarese Chronicles.” Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 155, 1: 97-120. 1998 “The Melaka Malay Diaspora in Makassar, c.1500-1669.” Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 71, 1: 107-22. |
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