安樂博(Robert Antony)，出生於美國新奧爾良。獲新奧爾良大學歷史碩士學位，主修中美關係。獲美國夏威夷大學博士學位，主修中國歷史。博士學位畢業後，任教于美國西肯德基大學多年。自2006年，前來澳門大學歷史系工作。我的治學領域爲海洋史、明清時期犯罪史及法律的比較史。我于2016年来广州大学十三行研究中心工作。
我以兼具歷史學、犯罪學、人類學及民族學的方法治史，是國際史學界新發展的研究方法。我過去的學術研究心得體現于我的10多本著作，及超過60多篇的學術論文（發表于CSSCI、SSCI及AHCI等知名學術期刊）。另外我每年也應邀參加許多國際會議，或擔任主講、或發表論文。這些文章或以英文、或以中文發表，并得到國際史學界認可。我的研究方向于史學界稱爲「自下而上」（bottom-up）的研究方法。這是將史學研究落實在田野考察的工作中；也就是治史時，檔案資料的研究與實地考察並重。
Web:https://gzhu.academia.edu/RobertAntony
著作:
● Cambridge World History of Violence, Vol. 3 (1500-1800). Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2019.
● Beyond the Silk Roads: New Discourses on China’s Role in East Asian Maritime History (co-edited with Angela Shottenhammer). Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017.
● Unruly People: Crime, Community, and State in Late Imperial South China. Hong Kong University Press, 2016.
● Chinese Secret Societies and Popular Religion Revisited (co-edited with Joseph Lee). Special issue in Frontiers of History in China, 2016.
●《南中國海海盜風雲》，香港: 三聯書店, 2014年.
●《海上風雲：南中國海的海盜及其不法活動》，北京市：中國社會科學出版社, 2013年.
● Piracy in Asian Waters (co-edited with Sebastian Prange). Special 2 volume issue in Journal of Early Modern History, 2012 and 2013 (SSCI and AHCI journals).
● Elusive Pirates, Pervasive Smugglers: Violence and Clandestine Trade in the Greater China Seas. Hong Kong University Press, 2010.
● Pirates in the Age of Sail. New York: W. W. Norton Publishers, 2007.
● Like Froth Floating on the Sea: The World of Pirates and Seafarers in Late Imperial South China. Berkeley: University of California, Institute for East Asian Studies, 2003.
● Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs: Qing Crisis Management and the Boundaries of State Power in Late Imperial China (co-edited with Jane Leonard). Cornell University Press, 2002.
论文（选录部分）:
● “China’s Pirate Wars, 1520-1810,” in Michael Charney and Kaushik Roy, eds., Routledge Handbook of the Global History of Warfare. London: Routledge, forthcoming 2020.
● “Spectacles of Violence in South China,” in Robert Antony, Stuart Carroll, and Caroline Pennock, eds., Cambridge World History of Violence, Vol. 3 (1500-1800). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2019.
● “Piracy in Asia and the West,” in Robert Antony, Stuart Carroll, and Caroline Pennock, eds., Cambridge World History of Violence, Vol. 3 (1500-1800). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2019 (co-authored with Kris Lane).
● “中国明清海盜研究回顾：以英文论著为中心”，《海洋史研究》第12辑, 2018年 (co-authored with Patrick Connolly) (CSSCI journal).
● “Integrating Maritime Asia with World, Transnational, and Local History: An Introduction,” in Robert Antony and Angela Schottenhammer, eds., Beyond the Silk Roads: New Discourses on China’s Role in East Asian Maritime History. Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017, pp. 1-23.
● “Pirates, Dragon Ladies, and Steamships: On the Changing Forms of Modern China’s Piracy,” in Robert Antony and Angela Schottenhammer, eds., Beyond the Silk Roads: New Discourses on China’s Role in East Asian Maritime History. Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017, pp. 165-187.
● “We are Not Pirates: Portugal, China, and the Pirates of Coloane (Macao), 1910,” Journal of World History, 28.2 (June 2017), pp. 250-277 (AHCI journal).
● “杨彦迪：1644—1684年中越海域边界的海盗、反叛者及英雄”，李庆新和胡波主编, 《东亚海域交流与南中国海洋开发》，北京市: 科学出版社, 2017年.
● “A Terrible Scourge: Piracy, Coastal Defense, and the Historian,” in Y. H. Teddy Sim, ed., The Maritime Defence of China: Ming General Qi Jiguang and Beyond, Singapore: Springer, 2017, pp. 43-58 (co-authored with Patrick Connolly).
● “Ethnic and Religious Violence in South China: The Hakka-Tiandihui Uprising of 1802,” Frontiers of History in China, 11.4 (December 2016), pp. 532-562.
● “中越海境风云（1644-1684）：杨彦迪~海盗、叛贼、枭雄、英雄？”, 《海洋史研究》2016年, pp. 261-281 (CSSCI journal)
● “Trade, Piracy, and Resistance in the Gulf of Tonkin in the 17th Century,” in Tonio Andrade and Hang Xing, eds., Sea Rovers, Silk, and Silver: Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550-1700, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2016, pp. 312-334.
● “On the Feminization of the South China Seas: Clues and Speculations in History,” Journal of National Maritime Research (China Maritime Museum, Shanghai), 2016.
● “War, Trade, and Piracy in the Early Modern Tongking Gulf,” in Angela Schottenhammer, ed., Tribute, Trade, and Smuggling: Commercial, Scientific and Human Interaction in the Middle Period and Early Modern World, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014, pp. 77-94.
● “Violence and Predation on the Sino-Vietnamese Maritime Frontier, 1450-1850,” Asia Major, Series 3, vol. 27.2 (Fall 2014), pp. 87-114.
● “Righteous Yang: Pirate, Rebel, and Hero on the Sino-Vietnamese Water Frontier, 1644-1684,” Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review (University of California, Berkeley), 2014 (on-line at https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-11/antony).
● “Maritime Violence and State Formation in Vietnam: Piracy and the Tay Son Rebellion, 1771-1802,” in Stefan Amirell and Leos Muller, eds., Persistent Piracy: Maritime Violence and State-Formation in Global Historical Perspective, Palgrave, 2014, pp. 113-130.
● “大航海时代的东南亚海盗”, 《海洋史研究》第5辑，2014年 (CSSCI journal).
● “Turbulent Waters: Sea Raiding in Early Modern Southeast Asia,” Mariner’s Mirror 99.1 (February 2013), pp. 23-38 (AHCI journal) (Included in Maritime and Ocean Affairs, 2015, on-line at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00253359.2013.766996 ).
● “Piracy, Sovereignty, and the Early Modern Asian State—An Introduction,” Journal of Early Modern History 17 (Special Issue 1, 2013), pp. 1-7 (co-authored with Sebastian Prange) (SSCI and AHCI journals).
● “The Social and Economic Dynamics of Piracy in Early Modern Asia—An Introduction,” Journal of Early Modern History 16 (Special Issue 6, 2012), pp. 455-462 (co-authored with Sebastian Prange) (SSCI and AHCI journals).
● “Bloodthirsty Pirates? Violence and Terror on the South China Sea in Early Modern Times,” Journal of Early Modern History 16 (Special Issue 6, 2012), pp. 481-501 (SSCI and AHCI journals).
● “中國南方的海盜活動及影子經濟（1780-1810年）”，《海洋史研究》第2辑, 2011年, pp. 183-201 (CSSCI journal).
● “國家、社區與廣東省鎮壓海盜的行動，1809-1810”《清史譯叢》第10 辑，济南：齐鲁书社，2011年, pp. 141-180.
● “Piracy and the Shadow Economy in the South China Sea, 1780-1810,” in Robert Antony, ed., Elusive Pirates, Pervasive Smugglers: Violence and Clandestine Trade in the Greater China Seas, Hong Kong University Press, 2010, pp. 99-114.
● “Giang Binh: Pirate Haven and Black Market on the Sino-Vietnamese Frontier, 1780-1802,” in John Kleinen and Manon Osseweijer, eds., Pirates, Ports, and Coasts in Asia: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, Leiden: International Institute for Asian Studies, 2010, pp. 31-50.
● “南洋風雲：活躍在海上的海盜、英雄、商人”，《海洋史研究》第1辑，2010年, pp. 153-170 (CSSCI journal)
● “Piracy on the South China Coast through Modern Times,” in Bruce Ellman, ed., Piracy and Maritime Crime: Africa, Asia and Southeast Asia, Annapolis: Naval War College Press, 2010. (on-line at https://www.usnwc.edu/getattachment/4f1ba8aa-5f06-45f1-b8c6-c3c992d211f5/Piracy-and-Maritime-Crime.aspx).
● “Banditry, Marginality, and Survival among the Laboring Poor in Late Imperial South China,” in Joseph Lee, et al., Marginalization in China: Recasting Minority Politics, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
● “中國海盜之黃金時代, 1520-1810”，《廣東省社會科學院歷史與中山研究所建所五十周年紀念文集》，李慶新，鄧開頌，主編，廣州市：銀河出版社, 2008年，pp. 228-240.
● “State, Community, and Pirate Suppression in Guangdong Province, 1809-1810,” Late Imperial China, 27.1 (June 2006), pp. 1-30 (AHCI journal).
● “Sea Bandits of the Canton Delta, 1780-1839,” International Journal of Maritime History, 17 (December 2005), pp. 1-29.
● “Demons, Gangsters, and Secret Societies in Early Modern South China,” East Asian History, 27 (June 2004), pp. 71-98.
● “Subcounty Officials, the State, and Local Communities in Guangdong Province, 1644-1860,” in Robert Antony and Jane Leonard, eds., Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs: Qing Crisis Management and the Boundaries of State Power in Late Imperial China (2002), pp. 27-59.
● “匪犯或受害者: 試析1795年至1810年廣東省海盜集團之成因及其成員之社會背景”，《中國海洋發展史》，第 7辑，台北: 中央研究院, 1999年, pp. 439-451.
● “Scourges on the People: Perceptions of Robbery, Snatching, and Theft in the Mid-Qing Period,” Late Imperial China, 16.2 (December 1995), pp. 98-132 (AHCI journal).
● “Pacification of the Seas: Qing Anti-Piracy Policies in Guangdong, 1794-1810,” Journal of Oriental Studies, 32.1 (1994), pp. 16-35.
● “Brotherhoods, Secret Societies, and the Law in Qing-Dynasty China,” in David Ownby and Mary Somers Heldhues, eds., Secret Societies Reconsidered: Studies in the Social History of Early Modern China and Southeast Asia. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1993, pp. 190-211.
● “Aspects of the Socio-Political Culture of South China’s Water World, 1740-1840,” The Great Circle: Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History, 15.2 (1993), pp. 75-90.
● “Archival Research in Qing Legal History,” Late Imperial China, 14.1 (June 1993), pp. 93-129. (co-authored with Nancy Park) (AHCI journal).
● “盜匪的社會經濟根源﹕十九世紀早期廣東省之研究”，叶显恩主编《清代區社會經濟研究》，北京市：中华书局, 1992年, pp. 534-543.
● “Peasants, Heroes, and Brigands: The Problems of Social Banditry in Early 19th-Century South China,” Modern China, 15.2 (April 1989), pp. 123-148 (SSCI journal).
● “合佛學派在鴉片戰爭史研究的模式及近年所受到的挑戰”，《清史研究通訊》，1987年, pp. 51-54.
