Eric
Tagliacozzo is currently on study leave from Cornell University
where he teaches Southeast Asian History. He is in Southeast Asia
for the year, putting the finishing touches on one book (about the
history of colonial-era smuggling in the region), and starting the
research for another (on the history of the Hajj from Southeast
Asia to Mecca). He is traveling between Singapore, Malaysia and
Indonesia until the middle of August, 2004.