Adam Clulow
Associate Professor — Ph.D., 2008, Columbia University,
Contact
- E-mail: adam.clulow@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: 512-475-7267
- Office: Garrison Hall 2.202
- Campus Mail Code: B7000
Biography
Adam Clulow is a historian of early modern Asia. His work is concerned broadly with the transnational circulation of ideas, people, practices and commodities across East and Southeast Asia. Dr. Clulow’s first book, The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan, was published in 2014 and received the Jerry Bentley Book Prize for World History from the American Historical Association, the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) 2015 Humanities Book Prize, the Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction 2015 Book Prize, and the W.K. Hancock Prize from the Australian Historical Association. His second book, Amboina, 1623: Conspiracy and Fear on the Edge of Empire, was published by Columbia University Press in 2019. Dr. Clulow is also the editor of three books: with Tristan Mostert, The Dutch and English East India Companies: Diplomacy, Trade and Violence in Early Modern Asia (Amsterdam University Press, 2018); with Lauren Benton and Bain Attwood, Protection and Empire: A Global History (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and Statecraft and Spectacle in East Asia: Studies in Taiwan-Japan Relations (Routledge, 2010).
His current research focuses on a number of topics including the deerskin trade between Southeast Asia and Japan in the seventeenth century, claims to possession, East Asian slaveholders in the Dutch empire, corporate genocide in the Banda islands, European ambassadors to Mughal India and the Cocos-Keeling islands.
Dr. Clulow is also the creator with the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM) of the Amboyna conspiracy trial, an interactive Digital Humanities project focused on a famous seventeenth century case involving Dutch officials, Japanese mercenaries and English merchants. It received the New South Wales Premiers History Award (Multimedia History Prize) in 2017. Along with colleagues at Monash University, he is the developer of the Virtual Angkor project (seen below) which aims to recreate the sprawling Cambodian metropolis of Angkor at the height of the Khmer Empire’s power and influence in the twelfth century. It received the American Historical Association’s 2018 Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital History. His most recent project, Maritime Asia: War and Trade, introduces students to the multipolar world of seventeenth century maritime Asia.
