[1] Tagliacozzo has focused much of his scholarship on the late colonial era in Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on people in motion, including the migration of ideas and materials.
[2] Several edited volumes also look at Southeast Asia's connections with the Middle East; at the idea of Indonesia over a two thousand year-period; and at the meeting of History and Anthropology generally (and conceptually) as disciplines.
The Longest Journey: Southeast Asians and the Pilgrimage to Mecca (Oxford, 2013) examines transnational movement over a span of seven centuries in the first comprehensive history of the Hajj across the Indian Ocean.
[3] Several edited volumes also look at Southeast Asia's connections with the Middle East; at the idea of Indonesia over a two thousand year-period; and at the meeting of History and Anthropology generally (and conceptually) as disciplines.
Tagliacozzo was the Hung Leung Hau Ling Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong in 2017-2018.