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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 is currently writing a cultural history of the intesne ballooning revival that France experienced in the late nineteenth century, which is under advanced contract with The 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, The Age of Revolutions, and Observatório da Imprensa.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
• Assistant Professor of History, IE University, Spain, 2023 – Present
• Research Associate, Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum, USA, 2021 – 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
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
• De Oliveira, P.L.S. (2022). “Transforming a Brazilian Aeronaut into a French Hero: Celebrity, Spectacle, and Technological Cosmopolitanism in the Turn-of-the-Century Atlantic”. Past & Present, vol. 254(1): 237-275
• De Oliveira, P.L.S. (2020). “Martyrs Made in the Sky: The Zénith Balloon Tragedy and the Construction of the French Third Republic’s First Scientific Heroes”. Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, Vol. 74(3): 365-386
• De Oliveira, P.L.S. (2019). “Imagining an Old City in Nineteenth-Century France: Urban Renovation, Civil Society, and the Making of Vieux Lyon”. Journal of Urban History, Vol. 45(1): 67-98
