In December 2015, Engseng Ho visited Leiden University as the keynote speaker for the Ocean of Law conference. Two years later we reconnected for a conversation about his career, the study of diasporas, the legal history of the Indian Ocean world, and his fascination with inter-Asian connections. Engseng Ho is professor of cultural anthropology and history at Duke University, MuhammadAlagil distinguished visiting professor of Arabia Asia Studies at the Asia Research Institute, and the director of the Middle East Institute at the National University of Singapore. He was previously professor of anthropology at Harvard University and senior scholar at the Harvard Academy. After graduating from Stanford with undergraduate degrees in economics and anthropology, Ho spent a few years as an international economist in Singapore before pursuing aMaster’s and PhD at the University of Chicago. His works have been central to the field of Indian Ocean Studies, especially regarding the international and transcultural dimensions of Islamic societies across the Indian Ocean and their relations with Western empires.

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“我觉得被困在一个小地方非常有幽闭恐惧症”：对 Engseng Ho 的采访

2015 年 12 月，何永生作为法律海洋会议的主讲人访问了莱顿大学。两年后，我们再次联系，讨论了他的职业生涯、侨民研究、印度洋世界的法律史以及他对亚洲间联系的迷恋。Engseng Ho是杜克大学文化人类学和历史学教授、亚洲研究所阿拉伯亚洲研究特聘客座教授MuhammadAlagil、新加坡国立大学中东研究所所长。他曾任哈佛大学人类学教授和哈佛大学高级学者。从斯坦福大学获得经济学和人类学本科学位后，何先生在芝加哥大学攻读硕士和博士学位之前，曾在新加坡担任过几年的国际经济学家。他的作品一直是印度洋研究领域的核心，特别是关于印度洋伊斯兰社会的国际和跨文化层面及其与西方帝国的关系。