Biography

Guillemette Crouzet is a historian of the British Empire and the Middle East, with a particular focus on the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean World. More generally, her research explores the entangled histories of globalization, imperialism and terraqueous environments in the early modern and modern Indian Ocean World and Eurasia.

She has previously held research and teaching positions at the University of Warwick (Newton international fellowship and Marie Curie Sklodowska individual fellowship), the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, the European University Institute (Max Weber fellowship), Sorbonne Université, Sciences Po Paris and the Sorbonne Université in Abu Dhabi; and in spring 2023 she was a visiting fellow at the Huntington Library. Her award-winning book "Genèses du Moyen-Orient. Le Golfe Persique à l'âge des impérialismes (c.1800-1914)" was published in 2015. In 2022, a substantially revised and updated English-language version of the book, "Inventing the Middle East: Britain and the Persian Gulf in the Age of Global Imperialism", was published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. She is currently co-editing a volume on the role of archaeology and historical consciousness in the making of the modern Middle East in the nineteenth and twentieth century.

As a CAPASIA research fellow, her research will be concerned primarily with British and French interests in the Indian Ocean World.