Members

“Wardens’ meeting” oil on board, Grace Cossington Smith, 1943. Chau Chak Wing Museum UA2012.85.

Global perspective on how monarchy shapes modern history

Our research network brings together researchers from universities, museums, galleries and heritage sites interested in the history of modern monarchy and its global impact.

On this page you will find a profile for each of our members, in their own words.

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    Professor Robert Aldrich FAHA, FASSA, FRHistS, ChevOPalmesAcad

    Email address: Robert.aldrich@sydney.edu.au Institutional Affiliation: The University of Sydney Bio: Robert Aldrich is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Sydney, where he taught as Professor of European […]

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    Dr Lionel Babicz

    Email: lionel.babicz@sydney.edu.au Institutional Affiliation: The University of Sydney Bio: Lionel Babicz is teaching Japanese Studies  and Asian studies at the University of Sydney since 2008. He has completed his PhD […]

  • Dr Bruce Baskerville FFAHS

    Email: bruce.baskerville@uwa.edu.au Institutional Affiliation: University of Western Australia Bio: Bruce’s doctoral thesis (University of Sydney, 2017), titled The Chrysalid Crown, was a study over the longue durée of the Crown in Australia as […]

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    Susanne Bauer

    Email address: bauers@uni-trier.de Institutional Affiliation: University of Trier, Germany Bio (max 100 words): Susanne studied History and Cultural Studies at Saarland University (Germany) and Sorbonne University (France). Currently, she is a research […]

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    Dr John Breen PhD

    Email address: Jb8nichibun@gmail.com Institutional Affiliation: Professor emeritus, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan Bio: John Breen is professor emeritus at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, Japan. […]

  • Dr Donna Maree Brunero, BA(Hons), PhD

    Email address: dbrunero@nus.edu.sg Institutional Affiliation: Senior Lecturer, Department of History, National University of Singapore Bio: Donna Brunero is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore. […]

  • Dr Laura Clancy

    Email: l.clancy2@lancaster.ac.uk Institutional Affiliation: Lancaster University, UK Bio: Laura Clancy is a Lecturer in Media at Lancaster University, UK. She has research interests in class inequality, media representations, ‘the elites’, and power. […]

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    Dr Susan Conway, BA, MA, PhD, FRGS, FRSA

    Email address: s.conway@associate.ids.ac.uk Institutional Affiliation: Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex UK Bio: Major Interests: Northern Thai and Shan material culture. Author of books and papers on culture and royalty in […]

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    Isabel Corrêa da Silva

    Email address: isabelcorreadasilva@ics.ulisboa.pt Institutional Affiliation: Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon Bio: Isabel Corrêa da Silva is a research fellow at ICS, University of Lisbon, and a lecturer at the Master […]

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    Dr Eleanor Cowan

    Email: eleanor.cowan@sydney.edu.au Institutional Affiliation: The University of Sydney Bio: I am an historian of the Roman Republic and the Early (Roman) Imperial period. I have a particular research focus on […]

  • Dr Robert Cowan

    bob.cowan@sydney.edu.au Institutional Affiliation: The University of Sydney Bio: Robert Cowan is Senior Lecturer in Classics at The University of Sydney, having held temporary posts at the Universities of Exeter and […]

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    Dr Bayu Dardias Kurniadi

    Email address: bayudardias@ugm.ac.id Institutional Affiliation:  Universitas Gadjah Mada Bio: I concentrate on the political economy of the Indonesian aristocracies. As a country with more than 17.000 islands, Indonesia’s aristocracy is fragmented […]

About our feature image:

“Wardens’ meeting” oil on board, Grace Cossington Smith, 1943. Chau Chak Wing Museum UA2012.85.

University of Sydney Art Collection. Donated through The Hon R P Meagher bequest 2011.