Scott was a giant of the field, and his work transcended Southeast Asian Studies, as well as the disciplines that housed him at Yale. Through a series of books penned over the course of his career, each more successful than the next, he showcased a remarkable intellectual range that was as broad as it was unique in its conception. Scott had a peripatetic intelligence. Though he was the author of books on the moral economy of Burmese and Vietnamese peasants in the 1920s and 30s, as well as the effects of the green revolution on small-town Malaysia in the second half of the 20th century, his horizons stretched ever-further as he got older, both geographically and temporally. High-altitude Southeast Asia (stretching in fact into parts of South and East Asia), and eventually even the Ancient Near East also came to be folded into his erudition. Throughout all these projects, his profound connection with theory -- and the human condition writ-large -- pervaded his work. He was a Southeast Asianist at base, therefore, but one read by millions of people outside of Southeast Asian Studies. He was a one-man band in not following intellectual trends, but rather, in setting them. Few people have been more cited across the academy in the last half-century, across a huge swath of disciplines and sub-fields.