Eric Tagliacozzo is the John Stambaugh Professor of History at Cornell University, focusing primarily on Southeast Asian History. For more than twenty years, he has focused on the history of people, ideas, and materials in motion in and around this region of the world, from earliest times up to the present. Eric has written and edited more than a dozen books about the cultural implications of Southeast Asia’s connections with the outside world, including Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865–1915 (Yale, 2005), which won the Harry J. Benda Prize from the Association of Asian Studies (AAS) in 2007. His monographs and volumes have looked at Southeast Asia’s links with the countries of the South China Sea and also the Indian Ocean, through trade, religion, and maritime exchange over the past two millennia.