ADAM CLULOW

Adam Clulow is a historian of early modern Asia and a professor at the University of Texas at Austin. 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, won four book prizes including the Jerry Bentley Book Prize for World History from the American 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 creator of multiple Digital Humanities projects including the Amboyna conspiracy trial, an interactive trial engine focused on a famous seventeenth century case that took place in what is now Indonesia.  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, the 2021 Digital Humanities and Multimedia Studies Prize from the Medieval Academy of America and the gold medal at the Wharton School - QS Reimagine Education Awards.