Dr Euan Huey - Lecturer in Early Modern Global History
I am an early modern historian of the global empires of Spain and Portugal. My research, largely focusing on the Iberian presence in Asia, explores the relationship between knowledge and empire. My scholarship is guided by an ambition to reimagine our geographies of the early modern world and to decentre European intellectual categories.
Before joining Royal Holloway, I completed by doctorate at the University of Oxford (2026), supported by Lorne Thyssen DPhil Scholarship in Imperial History. I have held library fellowships at Indiana University and Brown University in the United States, and my research has also been supported by grants from the British-Spanish Society and the Dacre Trust.
My first book project, Iberians in the World of the Sultanates: Knowledge and Empire in Southeast Asia, 1550-1670, connects the Spanish and Portuguese empires in Asia, revealing the central role that daily practices of writing, archiving and collecting played in making and unmaking these early modern empires on the ground.
At Royal Holloway I teach a number of courses on early modern European and Global History. In the past, I have also taught a specialist course on the history of the archive and supervised independent research projects in early modern global history for visiting students at the Middlebury College Centre for Renaissance Studies.
