Maritime Trade and State Development in Early Southeast Asia

A professor of history at Ball State University, Kenneth R. Hall is a specialist in pre-1500 South and Southeast Asian history and culture, comparative urbanization and wider Indian Ocean maritime networking. 

Among his numerous publications, these are particulary interesting for Angkorean researchers and lovers: A History of Early Southeast Asia: Maritime Trade and Societal Development c. 100‑1500 (2011); ​“Champa Ports-of-Trade Networking on the Coastline c. 300‑1500 CE” (Bangkok); ​“Regional Identities, Maritime Networking and Islamic Conversions in Fifteenth-Century Java“ (London);“Revisionist Study of Mainland South-East Asia’s Maritime Connections, c.100‑1500” (Delhi); ​“South Asia: 8^th Century India Transitions” (Leeds); ​“Contested Histories of Ming Agency in the Java Sea, Straits of Melaka, and Bay of Bengal Region” (New York); ​“Knowledge Transfers in 14^th and 15^th Century Java” (Singapore), and ​“Ayutthaya’s Seventeenth-Century Deerskin Trade in the Extended Eastern Indian Ocean and South China Sea” (New York/​Leeds).

He is on the advisory board of The Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, and was a Fulbright Senior Scholar/​Professor of comparative religion at Gadjah Mada University in Indonesia (2003 – 2004) and Southeast Asian studies at the Royal University of Phnom Penh (2012).