Olivier Schouteden
- Position: Assistant Professor of History
- Department: Sultan Al-Qasimi Department of History
- Email: [email protected]
Brief Biography
Olivier Schouteden is an assistant professor of history at The American University in Cairo (AUC). He received his PhD in world history from Northeastern University. His academic interests are in world history, East and Southeast Asia, modern France and Europe, imperialism, and the history of exploration and travel. His research examines how exploration reflected imperial limitations and often undermined France’s colonial project in and around Indochina (present-day Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos) during the age of the New Imperialism. During the fall semester 2024, he was a BECHS-Africa fellow (Mellon Foundation) at the University of Ghana (Legon), where he worked on two publication projects, including his first book Exploration on the Loose.
Awards
- BECHS-Africa Fellow, Mellon Foundation, University of Ghana, Fall 2024
- Visiting Scholar, University of California at Berkeley, Jan-Feb. 2022
- Faculty support grant, The American University in Cairo, 2021-2023
- German Historical Institute Fellowship, 2019-2020
- Associated Researcher, Université de Lille, IRHiS humanities laboratory, since 2019
- Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Northeastern University, 2018
- Asian Studies Research Award, Northeastern University, 2017
- University of Excellence Fellowship, Northeastern University, 2013-2018
Courses
- How to use a time machine? Investigating the past
- History of modern European Exploration
- East Asian History: From Laozi to BTS
- Modern European colonialism(s)
- World History since 1500
- Europe in the Age of Revolution and Reform (1789-1914)
- Historical Theory and Historiography