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 Anthony Milner, AM, FASSA, FAIIA, FRHistS
Email address: [email protected] 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 of Asian History at ANU (1994-2013) and Dean of Asian Studies (1996-2005); specialist on Malay history, and also Asian regional relations; theoretical interest in the…
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Dr Priya Mirza
Email address: [email protected] 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 states. I am interested in looking at technology, and how Indian princes carved a specific space in their engagement with new technologies. I am presently…
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Professor Javier Moreno Luzon
Email address: [email protected] 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, where he has been teaching and doing research since 1997. He has been assistant professor at UNED (Spanish Open University) and visiting professor or researcher…
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Rachel Peat
Email address: [email protected] 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 13,000 world cultures objects in the British Royal Collection, which are held by The Queen in trust for the nation. Her curatorial work spans 13…
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Dr Alessandro Pes
Email address: [email protected] 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 University of Cagliari. He deals with the history of colonialism and decolonization, the history of Fascism and Monarchy in Italy. In the context of these…
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Dr Jock Phillips, Ph.D., ONZM
Email address: [email protected] 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 culture at Victoria University of Wellington; 1990-2002: Chief Historian for New Zealand Government; 2002-2014: General Editor Te Ara, the online Encyclopedia of New Zealand Author…
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Eleanor Proctor, BA, MA
Email: [email protected] 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. Her research interests are centered around the British republican movement and the British Monarchy since the reign of Queen Victoria. Eleanor’s PhD project tackles the…
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Associate Professor Susie Protschky
Email address: [email protected] 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 Dutch empire, and cultural histories of photography. Her latest book, Photographic Subjects: Monarchy and Visual Culture in Colonial Indonesia (Manchester University Press, 2019), won the 2020 Royal…
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Associate Professor Ofita Purwani, ST.,MT., Ph.D.
Email address: [email protected]; [email protected] 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, and her master degree from Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology. In 2020 she was a visiting fellow at Yale-NUS College Singapore and a research fellow…
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Professor Charles V. Reed, Ph.D, FRHistS
Email address: [email protected] 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 in southern Africa, at Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina. I earned my Ph.D. at the University of Maryland where I studied with Richard…
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Associate Professor Matthieu Rey
Email address: [email protected] 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 in colonial legacies. As CNRS researcher, I then conducted research on political and social history of the Middle East (mostly Egypt, Iraq and Syria) and…
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Dr Hilary Sapire, FRHistS
Email address: [email protected] 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 Witwatersrand, South Africa, and am currently a Reader in Modern History at Birkbeck College, University of London where I have taught imperial, African and global…
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.