Tamara Loos | |
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Occupation | Professor of History |
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Doctoral advisor | David K. Wyatt |
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Discipline | Historian |
Sub-discipline | South East Asia, Thailand |
Institutions | Cornell University |
Tamara Loos is an American historian and gender studies scholar at Cornell University.
Biography
Tamara Loos is Professor of Southeast Asian history at Cornell University and has served as Chair of the History Department and Director of the Southeast Asia Program. Her first book, Subject Siam: Family, Law, and Colonial Modernity in Thailand, explores the implications of Siam's position as both a colonized and colonizing power in Southeast Asia. It is the first study that integrates the Malay Muslim south and the gendered core of law into Thai history. Her most recent book, Bones Around My Neck, offers a critical history of Siam during the era of high colonialism through the dramatic and tragic life of a pariah prince, Prisdang Chumsai. Her teaching and articles focus on an array of topics including sex and politics, subversion and foreign policy, sexology, transnational sexualities, comparative law, sodomy, and gender in Asia. She has been interviewed by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, and other global media outlets about political protests in Thailand.
Radio interviews
- NPR: Thai Palace Officials Ousted Following Demotion Of Royal Consort
- BBC: The Inquiry: Why are Thai students risking jail to call for reform of the monarchy?
- Background Briefing with Ian Masters: Turmoil In Thailand As Subjects Question the King's Excesses and Entitlement
Selected publications
- Loos, Tamara (2006). Subject Siam: Family, Law, and Colonial Modernity in Thailand. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
- Loos, Tamara (November 2005). "Sex in the Inner City: The Fidelity between Sex and Politics in Siam". The Journal of Asian Studies. 64 (4): 881–909. doi:10.1017/S0021911805002263. S2CID 154473418.
- Loos, Tamara (2009). "Transnational histories of sexualities in Asia". The American Historical Review. 114 (5): 1309–1324. doi:10.1086/ahr.114.5.1309. PMID 20425923.
References
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- Peleggi, Maurizio (2007). "Review of Subject Siam: Family, Law, and Colonial Modernity in Thailand". The International History Review. 29 (2): 393–395. ISSN 0707-5332. JSTOR 40110812. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
- Reynolds, E. Bruce (2007). "Review of Subject Siam: Family, Law, and Colonial Modernity in Thailand". The American Historical Review. 112 (5): 1523–1524. doi:10.1086/ahr.112.5.1523. ISSN 0002-8762. JSTOR 40007140. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
- Larsson, Tomas (1 April 2018). "Tamara Loos. Bones around My Neck: The Life and Exile of a Prince Provocateur". The American Historical Review. 123 (2): 564–565. doi:10.1093/ahr/123.2.564.
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- Beech, Hannah (6 November 2019). "'Extremely Evil Misconduct': Thailand's Palace Intrigue Spills into View". The New York Times.
- Miriam Berger (2020-10-16). "Thai pro-democracy demonstrations persist in face of protest ban". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. ISSN 0190-8286. OCLC 1330888409.
- "#RepublicofThailand trends as protesters maintain push on monarchy". Financial Times. 25 September 2020.