Patrick de Oliveira

Patrick Luiz Sullivan De Oliveira is an Assistant Professor of History at IE University. His main field of research is the history of modern France (1700 to the present), and he works on topics including the history of technology, urban history, and exchanges between France and Latin America. He recently published a book titled Ascending Republic: The Ballooning Revival in Nineteenth-Century France with MIT Press. His work has been recognized by the Royal Society’s Notes and Records Essay Prize and the Western Society for French History’s Millstone Prize, and he has held research fellowships at the Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum, the Huntington Library, the Linda Hall Library, and Sciences Po. 

De Oliveira was born and raised in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, received his training at the University of Kansas and Princeton University, and has taught at Princeton and Singapore Management University. In addition to his academic work, he has published in outlets like The Washington Post, Slate, Inside Higher Ed, Jacobin, and Observatório da Imprensa. That being said, his proudest achievement was receiving a rare email from Donald Knuth (the “father of the analysis of algorithms”) saying that an article De Oliveira wrote on scientific ballooning was "the best article on history of science that I can recall for many years."

 Academic Experience

• Assistant Professor of History, Humanities Area, IE University, Spain, 2023 - Present

• Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Society (Education), Singapore Management University, Singapore, 2021 - 2022

• Postdoctoral Lecturer, Writing Program, Princeton University, USA, 2018 - 2020

 Academic Background

• Ph.D. in History, Princeton University, USA, 2018

• M.A. in History, Princeton University, USA, 2013

• B.A. in History, University of Kansas, USA, 2010

• B.S.J. in News and Information, University of Kansas, USA, 2010

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGs)

4- Quality Education

9- Industry, Innovation and Infraestructure

11- Sustainable Cities and Communities