World history, especially since 1750: sciences and environments; race and racisms; the Indian and Pacific Oceans; Sri Lanka and South and Southeast Asia; material cultures; cities; human-animal relations; empires
Writing traditions, book cultures and the art of the Qur’an in Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean world; Malay and Indonesian manuscripts, letters, documents and seals, and comparative Islamic diplomatics
General linguistics; linguistic diversity and linguistic typology; language change; Uralic, Altaic and Palaeosiberian languages and linguistics; documentation and description of endangered languages
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