Engseng Ho, Professor of Cultural Anthropology

Please note: Engseng has left the "History" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

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.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	205 Friedl Building, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:	(919) 684-4544
Email Address:

Teaching (Fall 2025):

• CULANTH 210.01, GLOBAL CULTURE Synopsis

  Bivins 109, Th 11:45 AM-02:15 PM

  (also cross-listed as VMS 247.01)

• CULANTH 801S.01, GRADUATE THEORIES Synopsis

  Friedl Bdg 216, Th 04:40 PM-07:10 PM

Education:

Ph.D.	The University of Chicago	2000
M.A.	The University of Chicago	1990
B.A.	Stanford University	1986

Specialties:

Global Transnational History
Race and Ethnicity
Comparative Colonial Studies
African, Middle East and Asia
European and Russia
Global and Comparative

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Ho, E, Inter-Asian Concepts for Mobile Societies, Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 76 no. 4 (November, 2017), pp. 907-928, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi]  [abs]
2. Ho, E, Afterword: Mobile law and thick transregionalism, Law and History Review, vol. 32 no. 4 (September, 2014), pp. 883-889, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi]  [abs]
3. Ho, E, Black-Gold Rescues US Dollar Hegemony, Current Anthropology, vol. 55 no. 2 (January, 2014), pp. 145-146, University of Chicago Press [doi]
4. Ho, E, The china-africa axis in relation to other regional axes, Middle East Report, vol. 44 no. 270 (January, 2014), pp. 14-17  [abs]
5. Ho, E, FOREIGNERS AND MEDIATORS IN THE CONSTITUTION OF MALAY SOVEREIGNTY, Indonesia and the Malay World, vol. 41 no. 120 (July, 2013), pp. 146-167, Informa UK Limited [doi]  [abs]