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Professor Glenda Sluga

Professor of International History
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
D.Phil (Sussex), BA Hons (Melbourne), MA (Melbourne)

Room H603
A14 Quadrangle
The University of Sydney NSW 2006

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Genda Sluga has published widely on the cultural history of international relations, the history of European nationalisms, gender history, and is interested in the history of identity and difference more broadly. Her most recent book is Internationalism in the Age of Nationalism. She is currently writing a new study of the Congress of Vienna that recovers the lost history of women and international politics. Both projects have been generously funded by the Australian Research Council. In 2002 she was awarded the Max Crawford Medal by the Australian Academy of the Humanities. In 2006 she was appointed a member of the International Scientific Committee for the History of UNESCO. In 2009 she was elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

You can see and hear Glenda Sluga here:
Key Concepts Public Lecture Series: Nationalism
Sydney Ideas Forum: Water Dreamers: How Water and Silence made Australia by Michael Cathcart
Sydney Ideas Forum: Does History Matter?

Research Areas

  • Intellectual history of the nation
  • American and British diplomatic history
  • The History of International Relations
  • Gender in European History
  • Australian immigration History
  • The History of Human Rights
  • The History of Trieste
  • Madame de Stael
  • Cosmopolitanism
  • Internationalism and Empire
  • Peacemaking

Current Projects

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Selected Publications

Books

   

Internationalism in the Age of Nationalism (Penn) Feb 2013.

2006 The Nation, Psychology and International Politics (Palgrave)

Reviews:
– Reviews in History (2008)
– International Studies Review (2007)
– Nations and Nationalism (2007)

2001 The Problem of Trieste and the Italo-Yugoslav Border: Difference, Identity and Sovereignty in Twentieth-Century Europe (State University of New York Press, National Identities series), hardback and paperback.

Reviews:
– American Historical Review (2003)

2000 Gendering European History - co-authored with Prof. Barbara Caine (Leicester University Press/Cassells), hardback and paperback. [Also published as Europa e la donna, 1780-1920, con B. Caine (Wizarts, P. S. Elpidio, 2003) [cloth and electronic versions]; Europas historia 1780-1920: Ett genusperspektiv, och Barbara Caine (Natur och Kultur, Stockholm, 2003)]; and Género e historia. Mujeres en el cambio sociocultural europeo, de 1780 a 1920 (Madrid, Narcea-SEPS, 2000).

Reviews:
– Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies (2008)

Bonegilla: A Place of No Hope (Melbourne University History Monograph), reprinted as an electronic publication with RMIT Publishing

Curriculum Vitae

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Areas of teaching and research supervision

Teaching

Professor Sluga is intermittently responsible for teaching International and Global History, Nationalism, Late-Modern European History junior units of study, Writing History, Globalism, Internationalism, and the UN, and Contemporary Europe

Supervision

She is available to supervise in nineteenth and twentieth century European and transatlantic history. She specializes in the history of international organisations; history of internationalism, cosmopolitanism and empire; modern continental European history; intellectual history of the nation and nationalism; Transatlantic diplomatic history; the history of gender; the international history of the Cold War; British, French and US foreign policy in the twentieth century; Eastern Europe; and European migrants in Australia

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Other Professional Contributions

Glenda is a member of the International Scientific Committee for the History of UNESCO. She sits on the Humanities Panel of the Australian Research Council College of Experts. She is on the editorial boards of Contemporary European History, European Historical Quarterly, New Global Studies, and on the advisory boards for the Historical Journal, European Review of History, and National Identities. She has edited the special issue for the Journal of World History" on "New Histories of the United Nations", with Dr Sunil Amrith (Cambridge) and "Cosmopolitanism: Its Past and Practices" (21:3 2010), with Julia Horne.

She has peer reviewed for Historical Journal, Modern Italy, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, International History Review, International Studies Quarterly, European Women’s Studies Journal, Nations and Nationalisms, National Identities, Australian Historical Studies, Royal Australian Historical Studies Journal among others.

Glenda has been a visiting scholar at Leiden University, Netherlands; History Faculty and Clare Hall, Cambridge University; European University Institute, Florence; Charles Warren Centre, Harvard University; Centre for Asia-Europe Studies, Institute des Études Politiques, Paris; the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris; Bologna University; ANU; Monash University; and the University of Melbourne. In 2013 she will be a visiting scholar at the Department of History, University of Vienna, and the Centre for History and Economics, Harvard University.

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