Tamara Loos, Cornell University

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Associate Professor Ithaca, New York tl14@cornell.edu Office: (607) 254-5332

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Tamara Loos is currently writing a social history of Siam through the eyes of a reluctantly rebellious prince, Prisdang Jumsai (1852-1935). His perspective on this crucial moment in Siam's history-when that country, at once, escaped imperial control and transformed into an absolutist state-provid...

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Bio/Research

Tamara Loos is currently writing a social history of Siam through the eyes of a reluctantly rebellious prince, Prisdang Jumsai (1852-1935). His perspective on this crucial moment in Siam's history-when that country, at once, escaped imperial control and transformed into an absolutist state-provides a dagger-to-the-heart critique of the construction of royal cultural authority while simultaneously revealing the centrality of narrative and emotions to history.

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