Adam Clulow
Professor — Ph.D., 2008, Columbia University

Contact
- E-mail: adam.clulow@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: 512-471-4358
- Office: Garrison Hall 2.104A
- 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. The traditional Chinese translation of The Company and the Shogun (Gōngsī yǔ mùfǔ) was awarded the China Times Open Book Award in 2020. His second book, Amboina, 1623: Conspiracy and Fear on the Edge of Empire, was published by Columbia University Press in 2019. It was shortlisted for the New South Wales Premiers General History Book Prize and was a runner-up for the 2020 Robert W. Hamilton Book Award.
Dr Clulow is the editor of four books: with D.V. Botsman, Commemorating Meiji: History, Politics and the Politics of History (Routledge, 2021); 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, 2011 and 2013). His research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Australian Research Council, the Fung Global Fellows Program (Princeton University), the Japan Foundation, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the Mellon Foundation. In 2021, he was elected as a Corresponding Fellow by the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
Dr. Clulow is the creator of the Amboyna conspiracy trial, an interactive Digital Humanities project focused on a famous seventeenth century case that took place in what is now Indonesia. It received the New South Wales Premiers History Award (Multimedia History Prize) in 2017. Along with colleagues at Monash University, he developed the Virtual Angkor project which aims to recreate the sprawling Cambodian metropolis of Angkor at the height of the Khmer Empire’s power and influence around 1300. It received the American Historical Association’s Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital History in 2019, the 2021 Digital Humanities and Multimedia Studies Prize from the Medieval Academy of America and a Gold Medal from the QS-Wharton Reimagine Education Awards in 2021.
At UT, Dr Clulow is the Editor of Not Even Past, a Public History magazine that receives close to a million page views each year, and the co-creator with Daina Ramey Berry of the Beyond 2020 project. In 2019, he founded Epoch: History Games Initiative which is designed to generate a pipeline of historically based video games for use in high schools, community colleges and universities. Its first game, Ako: A Tale of Loyalty, was developed in Spring 2020 and is now available for use in the classroom. Alongside Kirsten Cather and Mark Ravina, he is the creator of JapanLab, which aims to develop a new template for Japanese Studies by integrating Digital Humanities across all aspects of the curriculum. For his work in bringing technology into the humanities classroom, Dr Clulow has received faculty, university and national teaching prizes for outstanding contributions to student learning.
Courses
HIS 368S • The Age Of The Samurai
38790 • Spring 2022
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM RLP 0.112
(also listed as ANS 361Q)
HIS 350L • Piracy In East Asia
39660 • Fall 2021
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM CAL 200
IIWr
HIS 350L • Global Commodities: Asia And T
38720 • Spring 2020
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM RLP 0.122
GCIIWr
(also listed as ANS 361)
HIS 364G • The Age Of The Samurai
38405 • Fall 2019
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM ART 1.110
GC
(also listed as ANS 372)
Curriculum Vitae
Profile Pages
External Links
- Maritime Asia: War and Trade
- Virtual Angkor
- The Amboyna Conspiracy Trial
- World History Commons
- Not Even Past
- Beyond 2020
- Epoch: History Games Initiative
- JapanLab
- The Conversation: How student-designed video games made me rethink how I teach history
- How one of the most profitable companies in history rose to power