Carl A. Trocki is an American historian, an expert in Southeast Asia and China. He was professor of Asian Studies at the Queensland University of Technology, director of the Centre for Community and Cross-Cultural Studies of the QUT, Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Trocki previously was Jacobson Visiting Associate Professor of Southeast Asian History at Georgetown University and also taught at Thomas More College. He served in the US Peace Corps in Malaysia, and received the BA from Cleveland State University. He is a native of Erie Pennsylvania.
He holds Ph.D. in Southeast Asian history from the Cornell University.