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Annenberg Seminar in History

Jennifer L. Gaynor, University at Buffalo
The Maritime Dynamics of Pre-Westphalian Interpolity Relations in Southeast Asia
| College Hall 209

Jennifer L. Gaynor is a fellow at the Baldy Center at the University at Buffalo. Her first book, Intertidal History in Island Southeast Asia: Submerged Genealogy and the Legacy of Coastal Capture (Cornell University Press, 2016), received honorable mention for the Harry J. Benda Prize of the Association for Asian Studies, awarded to the best first book on Southeast Asia in any discipline.  She has held fellowships at Michigan, Cornell, and the Australian National University, and is currently researching a work of contemporary history that crosses archipelagoes and ocean basins to examine land reclamation for strategic reasons and capitalist gain.

Please read the pre-circulated paper here.