Trudy Jacobsen

A Professor in mainland Southeast Asian history at Northern Illinois University (NIU), USA, Australian-born Trudy Jacobsen [also Trude Jacobsen Gidaszewski] has worked at Monash University and Griffith University in Australia, the Swedish School for Advanced Asia-Pacific Studies in Stockholm 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, with a particular interest in Cambodian history — her Honours thesis was titles ​‘Buddhist flesh, Hindu bones: The legitimation of Jayavarman VII’ (University of Queensland, 1999).

Publications

• Lost Goddesses: The Denial of Female Power in Cambodian History. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) Press, 2008. ISBN 9788776940010.
• “Brimming vessels, empty hands: Women and power in the age of Angkor”, Proceedings of the History Research Group 13, 2002.
• “Autonomous Queenship in Cambodia, 1st – 9th Centuries AD”, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (JRAS) 3 – 13, 2003: 357 – 75.
• “Paying through the Nose: Punishment in the Cambodian Past and Lessons for the Present”, South East Asia Resarch 13 – 2, 2005: 235 – 256.
• 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 (13th-18th centuries)”, Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, vol. 4, 2013, p 75 – 87.
• “Divergent perspectives on the Cambodian ​‘harem’ in the reigns of Norodom (1863 – 1904) and Sisowath (1904 – 1927)”, Working Papers n. 133, Monash University, Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, 2010, 24 p. ISBN 9781876924720.
• 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.
• “Gender, Status, and Hierarchy in the Age of Angkor,” The Angkorian World, M. Hendrickson, M. Stark, and D. Evans (eds.), London, Routledge, 2023: 525 – 38.