
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 Matt Fitzpatrick
Email address: [email protected] Institutional Affiliation: Flinders University Bio: Matthew Fitzpatrick is a Future Fellow and Professor of International History at Flinders University. His research is primarily on the German Empire, comparative imperialism and the history of German political and cultural history. He is the author of three books, Liberal Imperialism in Germany, Purging the Empire and The Kaiser and the Colonies.…
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Dr Lorenz Gonschor, PhD
Email address: [email protected] Institutional Affiliation: University of French Polynesia, Punaauia, Tahiti. Bio: Lorenz Gonschor was born in Germany, where he studied anthropology, history, and political science at the university of Tübingen. He obtained his MA in Pacific Islands Studies at the University of Hawai‘i in 2008, and a PhD in political science at the same institution…
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Dr Carolyn Harris, PhD
Email address: [email protected] [email protected] Institutional Affiliation: University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies Bio: Carolyn Harris received her PhD in History from Queen’s University at Kingston in Canada in 2012. She is an instructor in history at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies in Canada. She is the author of three books, Magna Carta and…
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Emeritus Professor Jenny Hocking
Name: Emeritus Professor Jenny Hocking FASSA Email address: [email protected] Institutional Affiliation: Monash University Whitlam Institute at the Western Sydney University Bio: Professor Jenny Hocking is an award-winning biographer, Emeritus Professor at Monash University and inaugural Distinguished Whitlam Fellow at the Whitlam Institute, Western Sydney University. She is the author of three biographies including the acclaimed two-volume biography of Gough Whitlam,…
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Mr Ellis Huddart
Name: Ellis Huddart Email address: [email protected] Institutional Affiliation: Birkbeck, University of London and Royal Museums Greenwich Bio: I begun working full-time on conducting research for my PhD titled ‘Floating palaces’ in October 2020 at Birkbeck, University of London in partnership with Royal Museums Greenwich. Prior to this I was an Exhibitions Curator for a university collection (Royal…
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Professor Angma Jhala, D.Phil., Oxford; M.Div. and A.B, Harvard
Email address: [email protected] Institutional Affiliation: Bentley University Bio: Angma D. Jhala is a Professor of History at Bentley University. Her work focuses on Modern South Asia, with an emphasis on religion, politics, gender and material culture in nineteenth and twentieth century India. Her books include Courtly Indian Women in Late Imperial India (2008), Royal Patronage, Power and Aesthetics in Princely…
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Dr Miranda Johnson
Email address: [email protected] Institutional Affiliation: University of Otago Bio: I am a historian of the modern Pacific world with a focus on issues of race, indigeneity, sovereignty and citizenship. My first book The Land Is Our History: Law, Indigeneity and the Settler State (2016) examined the rise of indigenous rights claims in three settler states (Canada, Australia, and Aotearoa…
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Aidan Jones, BA, MA
Email address: [email protected] Institutional Affiliation: King’s College London Bio: Aidan Jones is a doctoral research student in the Department of Political Economy, King’s College London. His research lies in the field of diplomatic and political cultural history, as well as the history of the monarchy in the long nineteenth century. Jones is writing his thesis about Queen…
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Dr. David M. Malitz
Email: [email protected] Institutional Affiliation: German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo Bio: David is a Senior Research Fellow with the German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo, where he works on Japanese-Southeast Asian and particularly Japanese-Thai relations. He studied Business Administration and Japanese Studies at the Universities of Mannheim and Heidelberg in Germany, and received his…
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Dr Jim Masselos, FAHA
Name: Dr Jim Masselos FAHA Email address: [email protected] Institutional Affiliation: SOPHI, University of Sydney Bio: BA(Hons), University of Sydney; PhD (University of Mumbai Honorary Reader in History, SOPHI, University of Sydney, 2001- Author of numerous publications and honoured with festschrift volume, Bombay before Mumbai, Essays in honour of Jim Masselos, Oxford University Press, New York, and Hurst, London and…
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Dr Cindy McCreery
Email address: [email protected] Institutional Affiliation: Department of History, The University of Sydney, Australia Bio: Dr. Cindy McCreery is Associate Professor in History at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on monarchy and colonialism. She has co-edited 3 volumes in Manchester University Press’s Studies in Imperialism series, a Royal Studies Journal special issue and a forthcoming Oxford University Press volume…
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Dr Alison Miller
Email address: [email protected] Institutional Affiliation: University of the South (Sewanee) Bio: Alison J. Miller is Associate Professor of Art History and Director of Asian Studies at the University of the South (Sewanee). She specializes in modern and contemporary Japanese art, prints and photography, and the intersections of gender studies and visual culture. Dr. Miller has published in…
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.