Professor Glenda Sluga

Professor of International History

D.Phil (Sussex), BA Hons (Melbourne), MA (Melbourne)
Room 812 MacCallum Building


Glenda Sluga has published widely on the cultural history of international relations, the history of European nationalisms, gender history, and is interested in the history of identity and difference more broadly. She has just completed a study of the international history of the idea of the nation in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and is currently researching two new books, one on Madame de Stael, and the other on the United Nations. In 2002 she was awarded the Max Crawford Medal by the Australian Academy of the Humanities. In 2006 she was appointed a member of the International Scientific Committee for the History of UNESCO.

• Intellectual history of the nation
• American and British diplomatic history
• The History of International Relations
• Gender in European History
• Australian immigration History
• The Gender History of Human Rights
• The History of Trieste
• Madame de Stael
• Cosmopolitanism

• Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism and Gender at the Congress of Vienna
• Madame de Stael and the Emotional History of Nationalism
• ARC- Discovery, British Women and the Idea of Italy with Professors Barbara Caine and Ros Pesman
• ARC-Discovery, ‘Nation, Race, Rights, and the New World Order. An intellectual history of the UN.

2006 The Nation, Psychology and International Politics (Palgrave)

2001 The Problem of Trieste and the Italo-Yugoslav Border: Difference, Identity and Sovereignty in Twentieth-Century Europe (State University of New York Press, National Identities series), hardback and paperback.

2000 Gendering European History - co-authored with Prof. Barbara Caine (Leicester University Press/Cassells), hardback and paperback. [Also published as Europa e la donna, 1780-1920, con B. Caine (Wizarts, P. S. Elpidio, 2003) [cloth and electronic versions]; and Europas historia 1780-1920: Ett genusperspektiv, och Barbara Caine (Natur och Kultur, Stockholm, 2003)].

Bonegilla: A Place of No Hope (Melbourne University History Monograph), reprinted as an electronic publication with RMIT Publishing

'New Histories of the UN', co-authored with Sunil Amrith, Journal of World History.

2005 ‘What is National Self-Determination? Nationality and psychology during the apogee of nationalism’, Nations and Nationalism, vol. 11, 1.

2003 “Defining Liberty: Italy and England in Madame de Stael’s Corinne,” in Women’s Writing, vol.10, 2.

2002 “Narrating Difference and Defining Nation in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Western Europe”, European Review of History, 9, 2, 2002: 183-197.

2001 “Bodies, Souls, and Sovereignty: The Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Legitimacy of Nations,” Ethnicities 1 (2), pp. 207-232.

2000 “Female and National Self-Determination: A Gender Re-Reading of the ‘Apogee of Nationalism’,” Nations and Nationalisms, Special Issue on Gender, 6 (4), pp. 495-521.

1998 “Identity, Gender, and the History of European Nationalisms,” Nations and Nationalisms, 4, pp. 87-111.

1998 “Inventing Ethnic Spaces: ‘Free Territory’, Sovereignty and the 1947 Peace Treaty,” Acta Histriae IV, pp. 173-186.

2008 ‘The Aftermath of War’, Oxford Handbook on Fascism ed. R. Bosworth (OUP, forthcoming).

2007 ‘Writing the History of the Origins of UNESCO’, Sixty years of Unesco (Paris).

2005 ‘Gender, Peacemaking, and the New World Orders of 1919 and 1945’ in J. Davy, K. Hagemann, & U. Katzel (eds), Frieden, Gewalt und Geschlecht (Klartext, Essen).

‘Women Writing the History of the Nation’, in M. Spongberg (ed.) The Palgrave Guide to Women Writing History (Palgrave).

2004 ‘Whose history?’ in S. Macintyre (ed), The Historian’s Conscience (Melbourne University Press).

“The Nation and the Comparative Imagination,” in D. Cohen and M. O’Connor (eds.), Cross-Cultural Histories (Routledge).

“Masculinity, Nations and the New World Order,” in K. Hagemann and S. Dudnik (eds), Masculinity in Politics and War: Rewriting the history of Politics and War in the Modern Era (Manchester University Press).

‘Gender and International History’ in P. Finney (ed), Palgrave Advances in International History (Palgrave).

2003 “L'italianitá e fascismo: alieni, allogeni, ed assimilazione” in M. Cattaruzza (ed.), Nazionalismi di frontiera: Identit á contrapposte sull'Adriatico nord-orientale 1850-1950 (Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli).

2000 “Italian National Identity and Fascism: Aliens, Allogenes and Assimilation on Italy’s North-Eastern Border” in G. Bedani and B. Haddock (eds.), The Politics of Italian Identity (University of Wales Press).

1999 “Fascism, Anti-fascism, and italianità: Contesting Memories and Identities,” in R. Bosworth and P. Dogliani (eds.), Italian Fascism (Macmillan, London).

1998 “Trieste: Ethnicity and the Cold War, 1945-1954” from Journal of Contemporary History 29 (1994): 285-229, reprinted in L. B. Fields, R. J. Barber and C. Riggs (eds.), Reading the Global Past (Bedford Books, USA).

1998 “Writing History into Politics: Balkan Boundaries,” in L. Holmes and P. Murray (eds.), Rethinking Boundaries (Ashgate, London).

Professor Sluga is intermittently responsible for teaching Late-Modern European History units of study, including Twentieth-Century European Culture and Politics, the Honours core unit of study, the European Studies core unit of study, Contemporary Europe, and seminars in international and political history. In 2006 she was Director of the Bachelor of Advanced Studies Arts program.

She is available to supervise in the following areas: International History; Modern continental European history; Intellectual history of the nation and nationalism; diplomatic history; the history of gender and identity; the Cold War; Eastern Europe; and European migrants in Australia.

Invited presentations

2008
Invited Faculty, Harvard University, Graduate Conference, 'Gender and International History'.

Invited Plenary, Columbia University Conference, 'The Risorgimento Revisted'.

Panel Discussion, 'The Wilsonian Moment', CES Conference, Chicago.

'Human Rights in the Twentieth Century', Workshop, Berlin.

2007
‘The Aftermath of War’, Oxford Handbook on Fascism Workshop, University of Reading, January.

‘The Intellectual history of nationalism, or Germaine de Stael’, Modern Cultural History seminar, Cambridge University, February.

‘Inventing International Governance’, The Transformation of Empire? Conference, Duke University, March.

‘Nation, Race, and the UN in the making of a new world order’, Reconstruction in Europe and East Asia in the post-1945 period, Oxford-Princteon Project, Workshop, Oxford University, March.

‘Transnational histories of the Cold War, Crossing Cultural Boundaries: New Histories of the Cold War, Conference, Cambridge University, May.

‘The Value of International Organisations’, International History Conference, Modern European History Research Centre, Oxford in conjunction with the Centre for Contemporary History in Norway, Oxford University, June.

2006
‘Nationalism’, RIHSS Key Ideas Lecture series, University of Sydney.

‘Biography and the nation’, Monash University/King’s College Workshop, Prato, Italy.

2005
‘Popular Culture in Discourses of the Nation and Nationalism', International Congress for the Historical Sciences, Sydney.

Chair and discussant, UNESCO 60th Anniversary History symposium, Paris.

2004
Invited Lecture, ‘The International History of Race and Nation, 1919 and 1945’, Race, Nation, and Ethnicity, Horning Endowment Lecture Series, Oregon State University.

Invited Lecture, ‘The International History of Race and Nation, 1919 and 1945’, Race, Nation, and Ethnicity, Horning Endowment Lecture Series, Oregon State University.

2003 ‘Racisms’ Public Lecture series UWA, Perth, October 2003.

2002 “Globalization and Sites of Intra-National Transactions: The Erosion of Borders and the Challenges for the European Union,” International Conference, Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Centre, Bellagio, Italy, July 15-19, 2002. Organizers: Rajan Menon, Monroe Rathbone Professor of International Relations, Lehigh University, and Alexander J. Motyl, Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University.

‘Gender and Sociability’, International Workshop, Monash University, Prato, Italy, June 2002. Organizers: Professor Moira Gatens, Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney, and Professor Barbara Caine, Department of History, Monash University.

2001 “Cross-Cultural Histories”, German Historical Institute Research Workshop, University of Cincinnati. Organizers: Professor Maura O’Connor, University of Cincinnati, and Professor Debra Cohen, American University.

March 28, Public Lecture: “Trieste and the Foibe”, University of Bologna, Italy, invited by Professor Patrizia Dogliani.

March 30, “Towards a Cultural History of Diplomacy”, Diplomatic History Workshop, European University Institute, invited by Professor Peter Becker.

April 2-3, “Writing Identity (and the Nation) into History”, Identity and Temporality Workshop, European University Institute, invited by Professor Bo Strath.

April 18, Discussant for paper presented by Professor Nicholas Dirks, Columbia University, University of Florence, invited by Professor Setrag Manoukian.

April 20, “Discourses of Nation”, Representations Seminar, run by Professor Peter Becker, European University Institute, Florence.

April 27-29, “East and West in The Comparative History of Nations and Nationalisms”, Europe 1000-2000 Conference. Organizer: Professor Laszlo Kontler, Central European University, Budapest.

May 16-17, “Certain Curious Anomalies” (organised with the Warren Centre, Harvard University), Conference for the Opening of the Rothermere Institute for American Studies, Oxford University, invited by Professor Ernest May.

June 18, Discussant for paper presented by Professor Eleni Varikas, University of Paris, Gender Summer School, European University Institute, invited by Professor Luisa Passerini.

September 22-26, “Gender and Demobilization”, Demobilizing the Mind Conference. Organizer: Professor John Horne, Trinity College Dublin.

November 22-25, “Gender and Nation 1919”, University of Graz, Modernity Colloquium, Krakow. Organizer: Professor Helmut Konrad.

2000 “Which Europe, What is a Nation: Shifting Historical Paradigms”, Keynote Address, Nation and Identity: Europe in the 20th Century Conference, Monash University.

“Defining Liberty: Italy and England in Madame de Stael’s Corinne”, La Bella Libertà, Georgetown University, Florence Campus.

“Psychology and National Self-Determination: Towards a Cultural History of Nationalism”, Charles Warren Centre, Harvard University.

“Comparative Nationalisms”, Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Research Seminar, Fordham University, New York.

“Psychology and National Self-Determination: Towards a Cultural History of Nationalism”, Department of History, University of New South Wales.

“History of the Present”, Panel with Claus Offe and Timothy Garton Ash, Sydney.

Public Forum on Kosovo, Queensland University of Technology.

Public Forum on “Memory, Civil Society and Nationalism in Eastern Europe and Indonesia”, State Library of NSW.

Glenda is a member of the 12-person International Scientific Committee for the History of UNESCO. She is currently co-editor of a monograph series ‘Critical Histories of Subjectivity and Culture’, and on the editorial advisory boards for the European Review of History, National Identities, and Modern Italy. She is editing a Special Journal Issue for Journal of World History, on ‘New Histories of the United Nations’, with Dr Sunil Amrith (Cambridge), due Sept 2006.

She has peer reviewed for Historical Journal, Modern Italy, Journal of Modern Italian Studies, International History Review, International Studies Quarterly, European Women’s Studies Journal, Nations and Nationalisms, National Identities, Australian Historical Studies, Royal Australian Historical Studies Journal among others.

Glenda has been a visiting scholar at Leiden University, Netherlands; History Faculty and Clare Hall, Cambridge University; European University Institute, Florence; Charles Warren Centre, Harvard University; Centre for Asia-Europe Studies, Institute des Études Politiques, Paris; and the University of Melbourne.