About the Author

Eric Tagliacozzo is Professor of History at Cornell University. He is the Director of the Comparative Muslim Societies Program, the Director of the Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, and is coeditor of Cornell's journal Indonesia. He is the author of Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier and The Longest Journey: Southeast Asians and the Pilgrimage to Mecca.