Vincent Thérouin is a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University in the ERC project OttoWaqf – Islamic Endowments (Waqf) and State Formation in the Ottoman Empire (1450–1650).
After completing a BA in History, he obtained an MA in Art History and Archaeology (Sorbonne Université, 2018) and a PhD in Islamic Archaeology (Sorbonne Université, 2026). He has received training in Modern Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (second BA degree, 2021), and, more recently, in Modern Standard Arabic (one-year intensive program, 2022).
During his doctoral research, his work focused on the evolution of urban spaces in early modern Ottoman Bosnia (fifteenth-seventeenth centuries). Making extensive use of GIS, he compiled, aligned, and spatialized architectural, demographic, and economic data for four settlements (most notably Sarajevo) “founded” by the Ottomans, with the aim of tracing their long-term spatial and temporal transformations. Within the OttoWaqf project, his postdoctoral research expands this scope to investigate not only the evolution of urban spaces, but also their surrounding landscapes, using as case studies other Ottoman-developed settlements across the Balkans during the early modern period.
Vincent Thérouin is also a member of the French National Research Agency-funded CallFront project (2022–2026), which explores calligraphic practices at the frontiers of the Islamic world, as well as of the DISTAM consortium (Digital Studies Africa, Asia, Middle East), a French research network dedicated to overcoming technical challenges and fostering collaboration in computational humanities applied to non-Western contexts.
