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.

  • Profile image of Anthony Milner

    Professor Anthony Milner, AM, FASSA, FAIIA, FRHistS

    Email address: anthony.milner@anu.edu.au Institutional Affiliation:  Emeritus Professor, CHL, College of Asia Pacific, ANU; Professorial Fellow, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne; Visiting Professor, Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya Bio: Formerly Basham Professor […]

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    Dr Priya Mirza

    Email address: naik.priya@gmail.com Institutional Affiliation:  Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi Bio: I work primarily on historicising sovereignty in colonial and postcolonial India, with a focus on the Indian princely […]

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    Professor Javier Moreno Luzon

    Email address: jamoreno@cps.ucm.es Institutional Affiliation: Universidad Complutense de Madrid Bio: Javier Moreno-Luzón (Hellín, Spain, 1967) is Full Professor of History of Thought and Social and Political Movements at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, […]

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    Rachel Peat

    Email address:  rachel.peat@rct.uk Institutional Affiliation: Royal Collection Trust Bio: Rachel Peat is Assistant Curator of Non-European Works of Art at Royal Collection Trust. She is responsible for the research and display of […]

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    Dr Alessandro Pes

    Email address: alessandropes@unica.it Institutional Affiliation:  Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Cagliari, Italy Bio:  Alessandro Pes is Lecturer in Contemporary History at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the […]

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    Dr Jock Phillips, Ph.D., ONZM

    Email address:  shock@xtra.co.nz Institutional Affiliation:  Free-lance historian Bio: 1973-90: Reader in History, Victoria University of Wellington; 1984-88: Director of Stout Research Centre for the study of New Zealand society, history and […]

  • Eleanor Proctor, BA, MA

    Email: eleanor.proctor@uha.fr Institutional Affiliation: Université de Haute-Alsace, France Bio: Eleanor Proctor is a PhD candidate at the Université de Haute-Alsace in Mulhouse, France and a member of the ILLE research lab. […]

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    Associate Professor Susie Protschky

    Email address: susie.protschky@deakin.edu.au Institutional Affiliation: Deakin University, Contemporary Histories Research Group Bio: Susie Protschky is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at Deakin University (Melbourne, Australia). She specialises in colonial Indonesia, the […]

  • Associate Professor Ofita Purwani, ST.,MT., Ph.D.

    Email address: o.purwani@staff.uns.ac.id; opurwani@nus.edu.sg Institutional Affiliation: Universitas Sebelas Maret Bio: Ofita Purwani is an associate professor in the Department of Architecture, Universitas Sebelas Maret. She received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh, […]

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    Professor Charles V. Reed, Ph.D, FRHistS

    Email address: cvreed@ecsu.edu Institutional Affiliation:  Department of Social Sciences, Elizabeth City State University Bio: I am a social and cultural historian of modern Britain and the British Empire, with particular interest […]

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    Associate Professor Matthieu Rey

    Email address:  m.rey@ifporient.org Institutional Affiliation:  French institute of Near East Bio:  I pursued a PhD on Iraq and Syria during the 1950s (publication in 2021 at AUC Press) discovering the monarchy […]

  • Hilary Sapire Book Cover

    Dr Hilary Sapire, FRHistS

    Email address:  h.sapire@bbk.ac.uk Institutional Affiliation:  Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck College University of London Bio: I completed my undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the Universities of Cape Town and […]

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.