Professor Glenda Sluga
ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellow
History
Glenda Sluga is Professor of International History, and ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellow at the University of Sydney. From 2020-2024, she is seconded as Professor of International History and Capitalism at the European University Institute in Florence. In 2013, she was awarded a five-year Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship for ‘Inventing the International’, working to reconnect historical and economic research and establish the foundations for the new history of capitalism in Australia, and to elaborate its international historical dimensions. In 2020, she is the recipient of a European Research Council Advanced Grant, overseeing a five-year research program on ‘Twentieth Century International Economic Thinking and the complex history of globalization.’
Professor Sluga's research interests include nationalism and internationalisms, global, international, and imperial history, diplomatic history, peacemaking, women and gender, in (West and East) European history.
International History; Global History; European History (East and West); the history of nationalism; International Organizations; International Relations and Diplomacy; International Political Economy; Women and Gender History; Immigration; Global History; Political Thought since the Eighteenth Century.
ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellowship 2014-2018
Founding member, International Scientific Committee for the History of UNESCO
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
Max Crawford Medal Australian Academy of the Humanities
Vaccari Trust Award for 'Bonegilla: A Place of No Hope'
Selected publications
Publications
Books
- Sluga, G. (2021). The Invention of International Order : Remaking Europe after Napoleon. London: Princeton University Press. [More Information]
- Sluga, G. (2013). Internationalism in the Age of Nationalism. Philadelphia, USA: University of Pennsylvania Press. [More Information]
- Sluga, G. (2006). The Nation, Psychology, and International Politics, 1870-1919. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Edited Books
- Sluga, G., Clavin, P. (2017). Internationalisms: A Twentieth-Century History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
- Sluga, G., James, C. (2016). Women, Diplomacy and International Politics since 1500. London: Routledge. [More Information]
Book Chapters
- Sluga, G. (2020). Gender, Peace and the New International Politics of Humanitarianism in the First Half of the Twentieth Century. In Karen Hagemann, Stefan Dudink, Sonya Rose (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War and the Western World since 1600, (pp. 1-26). New York: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
- Sluga, G. (2019). Economic Insecurity, 'Securities' and a European Security Culture after the Napoleonic Wars. In B. de Graaf, I. de Haan, B. Vick (Eds.), Securing Europe After Napoleon: 1815 and the New Security Order, (pp. 288-305). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
- Sluga, G. (2019). The International History of (International) Sovereignty. In Steffi Marung, Matthias Middell (Eds.), Spatializations and the Global Condition, (pp. 257-274). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH. [More Information]
Journals
- Sluga, G. (2023). Business transnationalism, looking from the outside in. Business History, 65(2), 382-388. [More Information]
- Sluga, G. (2023). What Do We Learn about War and Peace from Women International Thinkers? Global Studies Quarterly, 3(1). [More Information]
- Huf, B., Sluga, G., Selchow, S. (2022). Business and the Planetary History of International Environmental Governance in the 1970s. Contemporary European History, 31(4), 553-569. [More Information]
Edited Journals
- Sluga, G., Rowse, T. (2015). Forum: Global Liberalisms. Modern Intellectual History, 13(3).
- Sluga, G., Horne, J. (2010). Cosmopolitanism in World History. Journal of World History, 21(3).
Magazine / Newspaper Articles
- Sluga, G. (2016). Not so Invisible: Women in International History. International History and Politics, 2 (1).
Other
- Sluga, G. (2013), Roundtable: 'Governing the World' by Mark Mazowe.
2023
- Sluga, G. (2023). Business transnationalism, looking from the outside in. Business History, 65(2), 382-388. [More Information]
- Sluga, G. (2023). What Do We Learn about War and Peace from Women International Thinkers? Global Studies Quarterly, 3(1). [More Information]
2022
- Huf, B., Sluga, G., Selchow, S. (2022). Business and the Planetary History of International Environmental Governance in the 1970s. Contemporary European History, 31(4), 553-569. [More Information]
- Aydin, C., Ballor, G., Conrad, S., Cooper, F., Cuunjieng Aboitiz, N., Drayton, R., Goebel, M., Judson, P., Kott, S., Miller, N., et al (2022). Rethinking Nationalism. American Historical Review, 127(1), 311-371. [More Information]
- Sluga, G. (2022). The history of gendered Jewish internationalism, from the perspective of the history of internationalisms. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 21(2), 143-147. [More Information]
2021
- Sluga, G. (2021). The Invention of International Order : Remaking Europe after Napoleon. London: Princeton University Press. [More Information]
2020
- Sluga, G. (2020). Gender, Peace and the New International Politics of Humanitarianism in the First Half of the Twentieth Century. In Karen Hagemann, Stefan Dudink, Sonya Rose (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War and the Western World since 1600, (pp. 1-26). New York: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
- Hetherington, P., Sluga, G. (2020). Liberal and Illiberal Internationalisms. Journal of World History, 31(1), 1-9. [More Information]
2019
- Huf, B., Sluga, G. (2019). 'New' Histories of (Australian) Capitalism. Australian Historical Studies, 50(4), 405-417. [More Information]
- Sluga, G. (2019). Economic Insecurity, 'Securities' and a European Security Culture after the Napoleonic Wars. In B. de Graaf, I. de Haan, B. Vick (Eds.), Securing Europe After Napoleon: 1815 and the New Security Order, (pp. 288-305). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
- Sluga, G. (2019). Remembering 1919: International organizations and the future of international order. International Affairs, 95(1), 25-43. [More Information]
2018
- Sluga, G. (2018). Capitalists and Climate (forthcoming). Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, November. [More Information]
- Sluga, G. (2018). Hollywood, the United Nations and the long history of film communicating internationalism. In Jonas Brendebach, Martin Herzer, Heidi J.S. Tworek (Eds.), International Organizations and the Media in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Exorbitant Expectations, (pp. 138-157). Abingdon: Routledge. [More Information]
2017
- Sluga, G. (2017). Geschichtskolumne. Anfange und End(n) der Weltordnung. Merkur, 71, 72-81.
- Sluga, G., Clavin, P. (2017). Internationalisms: A Twentieth-Century History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
- Sluga, G., Clavin, P. (2017). Rethinking the history of internationalism. In Glenda Sluga, Patricia Clavin (Eds.), Internationalisms: A Twentieth-Century History, (pp. 3-14). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
2016
- Sluga, G. (2016). "Globalisierung" - zu welchem Ende? Merkur, 809(10), 59-67.
- Sluga, G., James, C. (2016). Introduction: The long international history of women and diplomacy. In Glenda Sluga, Carolyn James (Eds.), Women, Diplomacy and International Politics since 1500, (pp. 1-12). London: Routledge. [More Information]
- Sluga, G. (2016). Nationalism, the First World War, and sites of international memory. History of Education Review, 45(2), 212-227. [More Information]
2015
- Sluga, G., Rowse, T. (2015). Forum: Global Liberalisms. Modern Intellectual History, 13(3).
- Sluga, G., Rowse, T. (2015). Forum: Global Liberalisms - Introduction. Modern Intellectual History, 12(3), 523-528. [More Information]
- Sluga, G. (2015). Madame de Stael and the Transformation of European Politics, 1812-1817. International History Review, 37(1), 142-166. [More Information]
2014
- Sluga, G. (2014). 'Add Women and Stir': Gender and the History of International Politics. Humanities Australia, 5, 65-72.
- Sluga, G. (2014). Internationalism in the age of nationalism. Agora, 49(1), 23-29.
- Sluga, G. (2014). On the Historical Significance of the Presence, and Absence, of Women at the Congress of Vienna, 1814-1815. L'Homme, 25(2), 49-62. [More Information]
2013
- Sluga, G. (2013). 'Spectacular Feminism': The International History of Women, World Citizenship and Human Rights. In F. de Haan, M. Allen, J. Purvis and K Daskalova (Eds.), Women's Activism: Global Perspectives from the 1890s to the Present, (pp. 44-58). Oxon, UK: Routledge. [More Information]
- Sluga, G. (2013). Internationalism in the Age of Nationalism. Philadelphia, USA: University of Pennsylvania Press. [More Information]
- Sluga, G. (2013), Roundtable: 'Governing the World' by Mark Mazowe.
2012
- Sluga, G. (2012). Was the twentieth century the great age of internationalism? In Ian Donaldson and Mark Finnane (Eds.), Taking Stock: The Humanities in Australian Life Since 1968, (pp. 189-215). Crawley, WA, Australia: UWA Publishing.
2011
- Sluga, G. (2011). Editorial - the transnational history of international institutions. Journal of Global History, 6(2), 219-222. [More Information]
- Sluga, G. (2011). René Cassin: Les droits de l'homme and the Universality of Human Rights, 1945-1966. In Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann (Eds.), Human Rights in the Twentieth Century, (pp. 107-124). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
2010
- Sluga, G., Horne, J. (2010). Cosmopolitanism in World History. Journal of World History, 21(3).
- Sluga, G., Horne, J. (2010). Cosmopolitanism: Its Pasts and Practices. Journal of World History, 21(3), 369-373.
- Sluga, G. (2010). Imagining Internationalism. Arts: the Proceedings of the Sydney University Arts Association, 32, 55-68.
2009
- Sluga, G. (2009). A Short History of the Study of Nationalism. European Studies Newsletter, 39(1), 37-43.
- Sluga, G. (2009). Passions, patriotism and nationalism, and Germaine de Stael. Nations and Nationalism, 15(2), 299-318. [More Information]
- Sluga, G. (2009). The Aftermath of War. In Bosworth, R J B (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Fascism, (pp. 70-87). Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
2008
- Amrith, S., Sluga, G. (2008). New Histories of the United Nations. Journal of World History, 19(3), 251-274.
2007
- Sluga, G. (2007). Book review: Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective; Marilyn Lake and Ann Curthoys (eds.). Australian Historical Studies, 38(129), 169-170.
- Horne, J., Sluga, G., Caine, B. (2007). Cosmopolitanism. Its Past and Practices. Dialogue (Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia), 26(3), 79-82.
- Sluga, G. (2007). Proclaiming Sovereignty: Glenda Sluga Reviews 'The Declaration of Independence: A Global History. Harvard International Review, xxix (i), 76-77.
2006
- Sluga, G. (2006). Review of Claudio Alfiero, Oltre nazionalismo. Austrian History Yearbook, 37, 216-217.
- Sluga, G. (2006). The Nation, Psychology, and International Politics, 1870-1919. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
2005
- Sluga, G. (2005). Gender. In Finney, P (Eds.), Palgrave Advances in International History, (pp. 300-319). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Sluga, G. (2005). History in Exile: Memory and Identity at the Borders of the Balkans By Pamela Ballinger. The Journal of Modern History, 77(2), 503-505.
- Sluga, G. (2005). Nation. In Spongberg, Mary; Curthoys, Ann and Caine, Barbara (Eds.), Companion to Women's Historical Writing, (pp. 360-369). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
2004
- Sluga, G. (2004). "Authentic Hybrids" in the Balkan Borderlands - Reply. Current Anthropology, 45(1), 54-55.
- Sluga, G. (2004). Masculinities, Nations, And The New World Order: Peacemaking And Nationality In Britain, France And The United States After The First World War. In Stefan Dudink, Karen Hagemann, John Tosh (Eds.), Masculinities in Politics and War: Gendering Modern History, (pp. 238-254). Manchester: Manchester University Press.
- Sluga, G. (2004). The Nation And The Comparative Imagination. In D. Cohen & M. OConnor (Eds.), Comparison and History: Europe in cross-national Perspectives, (pp. 103-114). New York: Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney.
2003
- Sluga, G. (2003). Gender and the Nation: Madame de Stael or Italy. Women's Writing, 10(2), 241-251.
- Sluga, G. (2003). L'italianità e fascismo: alieni, allogeni, ed assimilazione. In Marina Cattaruzza (Eds.), Nazionalismi di frontiera: Identità contrapposte sull'Adriatico nord-orientale 1850-1950, (pp. 171-172). Italy: Rubbettino Editore.
2002
- Sluga, G. (2002). Narrating Difference and Defining the Nation in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century 'Western' Europe. European Review of History, 9(2), 183-197.
2001
- Sluga, G. (2001). Bodies, souls and sovereignty The Austro-Hungarian empire and the legitimacy of nations. Ethnicities, 1, 207-232.
- Sluga, G. (2001). The Patron State: Culture and Politics in Fascist Italy. The Journal of Modern History, 72, 1046-1048.
- Sluga, G. (2001). The Problem of Trieste and the Italo-Yugoslav Border. United States: State University of New York Press.
2000
- Caine, B., Sluga, G. (2000). Gendering European History: 1780-1920. London, New York: Leicester University Press.
1988
- Sluga, G. (1988). Bonegilla: 'A Place of No Hope'. Melbourne: Melbourne University history monographs.
Selected Grants
2019
- Funding Centre for the Future of International Order and Foundation in International Thinking, Sluga G, DVC Research/DVCR Large Grant Support
- National Practices of Internationalisation, Sluga G, Zheng H, Park S, Selchow S, Loy-Wilson S, Kluge E, Zuo Y, Chen Z, Zhang X, Zhao Y, Zhang C, Zhang Y, Yao Y, Zhou S, Nie Z, Office of Global Engagement/Partnership Collaboration Awards
2018
- What possibilities does 'planetary thinking' hold for reimagining environmental justice and governance, Schlosberg D, Biermann F, Sluga G, Park S, Selchow S, Lyster R, Stephens T, Kalfagianni A, Robeyns I, Westerhuis G, Hajer M, Office of Global Engagement/Partnership Collaboration Awards
Reviews of Professor Sluga's books and essays
Hunt, L. 2015. Review of Sluga, Glenda,“Madame de Staël and the Transformation of European Politics, 1812-1817. The International History Review 37:1 (2015): 142-166. H-Diplo 538.
Forsythe, D.P. 2014 Taking Stock of Human Rights Today, Human Rights Review 15: 219-224.
Peters, R.P. 2013.Review of Internationalism in the Age of Nationalism, Choice 51(4)
Morgan, E.L. 2013.Review of Internationalism in the Age of Nationalism, Cercles 69
Löhr, I. 2013. Review ofInternationalism in the Age of Nationalism,H-Soz-u-Kult
In the media
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?
The UN, a lieu de mémoire?
Diplomatische Liebschaften - Die Mätressen des Wiener Kongresses
Feminisms in the Mediterranean
Glenda Sluga: That the UN relocated from the U.S.? Where? In Ljubljana?
Lessons, warnings in a centuries-old peace
Global History Round-Table on Glenda Sluga's Internationalism in the Age of Nationalism
Staff Spotlight: Professor Glenda Sluga, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences