Engseng Ho, Professor of Cultural Anthropology

Engseng Ho

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.

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

Teaching (Fall 2025):

Education:

Ph.D.The University of Chicago2000
M.A.The University of Chicago1990
B.A.Stanford University1986
Specialties:

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