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Thomas Gibson is a Professor at the University of Rochester, currently serving as a SEAP Faculty Associate in Research with the Southeast Asia Program. His career spans decades of ethnographic and historical study focused on Southeast Asia's indigenous societies, religious nationalism, and state formation.
- Key Research Interests: Indigenous peoples of Southeast Asia, anthropology of war and peace, cosmology and state formation, Islamic states, and religious nationalism in the Indian Ocean region.
- Notable Projects: Longitudinal studies of egalitarian Buid societies (1986), comparative analysis of violence in shifting cultivator communities (1990), predatory state formation among the Makassar (2005), and religious authority transitions (2007).
Recent publications analyze symbolic anthropology and Islamic practices in Indonesia, with a forthcoming monograph on Subjectivity and Sovereignty in Islamic Southeast Asia. His work also extends to comparative studies of Islamic, Hindu, and Buddhist nationalism across the Indian Ocean. Awards include ACLS/SSRC/NEH Senior Fellowship (2008) and the Sir Raymond Firth Award (1983). Current teaching includes courses on ritual, myth, and global Islamic politics.
