Overview
Professor Ho received his PhD and MA in Anthropology from University of Chicago. He is a specialist on Arab/Muslim diasporas across the Indian Ocean, and their relations with western empires, past and present. He has been involved in the Inter-Asia collaborations among the Social Science Research Council, NUS, Hong Kong University, Gottingen University and others since 2008, including the SSRC Inter-Asia postdoctoral fellowships programme. His writings include The Graves of Tarim, Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean, and Empire through Diasporic Eyes: A View from the Other Boat.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Professor of Cultural Anthropology
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2008 - Present
Cultural Anthropology,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
Inter-Asian Concepts for Mobile Societies
Journal Article Journal of Asian Studies · November 1, 2017 This essay proposes that the study of Asia, thought of as an Inter-Asian space, can provide concepts that shed light on the social shapes of societies that are mobile, spatially expansive, and interactive with one other. Inter-Asia, an old world crisscross ... Full text CiteAfterword: Mobile law and thick transregionalism
Journal Article Law and History Review · September 16, 2014 The articles in this special issue of Law and History Review advance Indian Ocean studies and legal history by employing innovative mobile methods and concepts. In the past few decades, the Indian Ocean has become established as a frame for research and an ... Full text CiteBlack-Gold Rescues US Dollar Hegemony
Journal Article Current Anthropology · January 1, 2014 Full text CiteRecent Grants
Global Religion Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Notre Dame · 2018 - 2019Doctoral Dissertation Research: Alternative Models of Care for Refugees Seeking Political Asylum
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2016 - 2017Doctoral Disseration Research: Azerbaijan: Oil, Islam, and Imperial Rivarly in a Volatile Borderland
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2013 - 2015View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
The University of Chicago ·
2000
Ph.D.
The University of Chicago ·
1990
M.A.
Stanford University ·
1986
B.A.