Trude Jacobsen

Professor in mainland Southeast Asian history at Northern Illinois University (NIU), USA, Australian-born Trude Jacobsen Gidaszewski (Trudy Jacobsen) has worked at Monash University and Griffith University, the Swedish School for Advanced Asia-Pacific Studies and the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.

She writes on power, identity, and gender issues in mainland Southeast Asia.

Publications

• Lost Goddesses: The Denial of Female Power in Cambodian History. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) Press, 2008. ISBN 9788776940010.
• Power and Political Culture in Cambodia, [with Martin Stuart-Fox],Asia Research Institute Working Paper Series No. 200, May 2013. 
• “In search of the Khmer bhikkuni: Reading between the lines in late classical and early middle Cambodia (13^th-18^th centuries)”, Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, vol. 4, 2013, p 75 – 87.
• Sex Trafficking in Southeast Asia: A History of Desire, Duty, and Debt. London: Routledge, 2017. ISBN 9781138683075.
• ‘Querulous queens, bellicose bras : Cambodian perspectives toward female agency’, in Vina Lanzona and Frederik Rettig (eds), Women Warriors in Southeast Asia, London: Routledge, 2020,48−63.