Kenneth Hall :: Profile

VITA Fall 2008

Grant
“Ports-of-Trade, Maritime Diasporas, and Networks of Trade and Cultural Integration in the Bay of Bengal Region of the Indian Ocean: c. 1000-1500,” (9/20/2008)

Publication
The Ancient World: Civilizations of Asia and the Pacific (9/22/2007)

Publication
'Traditions of Knowledge in Old Javanese Literature, c. 1000-1500' (1/1/2005)

Grant
Societal Transformation and the Legitimation of Power in Southeast Asia’s Early Islamic States (10/4/2004)

Publication
Local and International Trade and Traders in the Straits of Melaka Region: 600-1500 (1/1/2004)

Publication
Ways of Knowing in the 15th Century Javanese Pararaton Chronicle (1/1/2004)

Kenneth Hall

Professor of History

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Department of History
Ball State University
Muncie, IN 47306

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Teaching and Research Specialties
Southeast Asia, South Asia, Pacific basin, economic, comparative religion

Biography
Ken Hall has published extensively on early South and Southeast Asian history, including Civilizations of Asia and the Pacific, The Origins of Southeast Asian Statecraft, Trade and Statecraft in the Age of the Colas, Maritime Trade and State Development in East Southeast Asia, An Economic History of Early Southeast Asia, Structural Change in Early South India, Maritime Diasporas in the Indian Ocean and East and Southeast Asia (960-1775), and Secondary Cities and Urban Networking in the Indian Ocean Realm, c. 1400-1800. He is currently preparing a contracted book on Maritime Trade in the Indian Ocean, 100-1500 C.E. During 2003-2004 he served as a senior Fulbright Scholar at Gajah Mada University in Indonesia, facilitating Muslim-Christian community dialogue, and continues as a Fulbright Senior Specialist for special assignments by the United States Department of State.