Glenda Anna Sluga (born May 29, 1962,
Melbourne
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), is an
Australian historian who has contributed significantly to the history of
internationalism
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* Cosmopolitanism, the view that all human ethnic groups belong to a single community based on a shared morality as opposed to communitarianism, patriotism and nationalism
* International Style, a major architectur ...
,
nationalism
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,
diplomacy
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,
immigration
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, and
gender
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, in
Europe
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,
Britain
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* The United Kingdom, a sovereign state in Europe comprising the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands
* Great Britain, the largest island in the United King ...
,
France
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,
Italy
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,
Yugoslavia
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, and
Australia
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.
She is Professor of International History and Capitalism at the
European University Institute
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, in
Italy
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, where she is Director of the
European Research Council
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Project ECOINT and Joint Chair of the Department of History and Civilization and the
Robert Schumann Centre for Advanced Studies.
She is on secondment from her post as Professor of International History at the
University of Sydney
The University of Sydney (USYD), also known as Sydney University, or informally Sydney Uni, is a public university, public research university located in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and is one o ...
.
Life
Sluga was born in Melbourne in 1962.
Her parents were
Cold War
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refugees in the 1950s from
Slovenian territory of the former Yugoslavia near
Trieste
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.
She was raised in the western suburbs of Melbourne and attended
Mount Saint Joseph’s Girls College in Altona West.
Education
She completed her BA (Hons) with First-Class Honours in 1985 at the
University of Melbourne
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where she also received her MA (Hons) in 1987.
Her thesis was published in 1988 under the title ''“Bonegilla, a place of no hope''” and received the Vaccari Trust Award for new work on immigration history.
In 1986, she received a Rae and Edit Bennet Scholarship for postgraduate study in the UK and was award a
Fulbright Travelling Scholarship.
However, in 1988, Sluga attended the
University of Sussex
, mottoeng = Be Still and Know
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £14.4 million (2020)
, budget = £319.6 million (2019–20)
, chancellor = Sanjeev Bhaskar
, vice_chancellor = Sasha Roseneil
, ...
using a British Council Commonwealth Scholarship where she received her DPhil in 1993 with her thesis ''“Liberating Trieste, 1945–1954: nation, history, and the Cold War''”.
Career
In 1988, prior to attending the University of Sussex, Sluga was a
lecturer
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at the University of Melbourne.
From 1991–1992 she was a Lecturer in
Australian Studies at
Eötvos Lorand University, Budapest and
Kossuth Lajos University, Debrecen, Hungary.
In 1993, she became Lecturer in Modern European History in the Department of History at the
University of Sydney
The University of Sydney (USYD), also known as Sydney University, or informally Sydney Uni, is a public university, public research university located in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and is one o ...
where she was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1999 and
Associate Professor
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Overview
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in 2003.
She took a year’s break in 2004 to teach as Associate Professor at the Australian Centre, the University of Melbourne.
From 2008 onwards, she has been Professor of International History at the University of Sydney though she is currently seconded to the
European University Institute
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as Professor of International History and Capitalism from 2020–2024.
In 2010, Sluga became the Head of the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI) at the University of Sydney and was Deputy Head from 2011–2013.
In 2014 she was awarded a prestigious five year
Australian Research Council
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellowship for her project Inventing the International. She worked with a young team that included Natasha Wheatley, Philippa Hetherington, Sophie Loy-Wilson, Benjamin Huf, Yves Rees, Beatrice Wayne, Sarah Dunstan, and Sabine Selchow amongst others.
Sluga is currently directing the five-year research project
Twentieth-Century International Economic Thinking, and the Complex History of Globalization (ECOINT) The project is funded by the
European Research Council’s Advanced Research Grant and looks at how economic thinking has shaped
globalization
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with a focus on the impact of women economic thinkers and business
NGOs
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in
international institutions.
Sluga’s research focuses on Modern
European history
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The first ea ...
, the East and West from the 18–20th century, the
history of Capitalism
The history of capitalism is diverse and the concept of capitalism has many debated roots. The history of the past 500 years is concerned with the development of capitalism in its various forms. Capital accumulated by a variety of methods, at a v ...
, European Empires in Asia-Pacific, the history of
Internationalism
Internationalism may refer to:
* Cosmopolitanism, the view that all human ethnic groups belong to a single community based on a shared morality as opposed to communitarianism, patriotism and nationalism
* International Style, a major architectur ...
and
Nationalism
Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people), Smith, Anthony. ''Nationalism: T ...
,
Settler Societies,
Diplomatic History
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,
Environmental History
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Environmental history first emerged in the United States out of th ...
, Women and Gender.
She has been published in Italian, Spanish and Swedish and speaks English, French, Italian, and Slovenian.
Awards
In 2002, she received the
Australian Academy of Humanities’ biennial
Max Crawford Medal which recognizes outstanding achieved in the
humanities
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by young Australian scholars contributing towards the understanding of their discipline by the general public.
She was elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2009 and was a founding member of the
International Scientific Committee for the History of UNESCO from 2006–2010.
She was the 2014–2018 recipient of the
Australian Research Council's Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellowship.
She has been a visiting fellow at
Monash University
Monash University () is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Named for prominent World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. The university has ...
(1996); the
Australian National University
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(1997); the
Institute des Études Politiques de Paris (2000); the European University Institute, Florence (2001);
Cambridge University
, mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts.
Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge.
, established =
, other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...
(2001 & 2007);
Harvard University
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(2000 & 2012); the University of Melbourne (2003);
Leiden University
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(2003); the
University of Bologna
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(2009); the
Foundation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris (2012); and the
University of Vienna
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(2013).
Bibliography
* "The history of gendered Jewish internationalism, from the perspective of the history of internationalisms." ''Journal of Modern Jewish Studies'' 21.2 (2022): 143-147.
* ''The invention of international order: remaking Europe after Napoleon'' (Princeton University Press, 2021
online
* "From F. Melian Stawell to E. Greene Balch: International and Internationalist Thinking at the Gender Margins, 1919–1947." in ''Women's International Thought: A New History'' (Cambridge University Press, 2021).
* with Philippa Hetherington. "Liberal and illiberal internationalisms." ''Journal of World History '' 31.1 (2020): 1-9
online
* "Remembering 1919: International organizations and the future of international order". ''International Affairs'' 95#1 (2019) pp 25-43. doi:10.1093/ia/iiy242
* Edited with P. Clavin. ''Internationalisms: A Twentieth-Century History''. (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
* "Who Hold the Balance of the World? Bankers at the Congress of Vienna and in International History". ''American Historical Review'', December 2017, 1403–1430. doi:10.1093/ahr/122.5.1403
* Geschichtskolumne. Anfange und End(n) der Weltordnung. Merkur, 2017, 71, 72–81. also published in English a
Capitalists and Climate ''Humanity'', November 2017
* Edited with Carolyn James. ''Women, diplomacy and international politics since 1500'' (Routledge, 2016).
* "Madame de Staël and the transformation of European politics, 1812–17." ''International History Review'' 37.1 (2015): 142-166
online* ''Internationalism in the Age of Nationalism''. University of Pennsylvania Press, 201
online* "UNESCO and the (one) world of Julian Huxley." ''Journal of World History'' (2010): 393-418
online* ''The Problem of Trieste and the Italo-Yugoslav Border: Difference, Identity, and Sovereignty in Twentieth-Century Europe'' (SUNY Press, 2001).
* "Female and national self‐determination: A gender re‐reading of ‘The Apogee of nationalism’." ''Nations and Nationalism'' 6.4 (2000): 495-521
online
* "Identity, gender, and the history of European nations and nationalisms." ''Nations and Nationalism'' 4.1 (1998): 87-111
online
* "Trieste: ethnicity and the Cold War, 1945-54." ''Journal of Contemporary History'' 29.2 (1994): 285-303.
References
External links
Glenda Sluga on EUI Cadmus
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1962 births
Living people
Women academics
University of Melbourne alumni
University of Sydney faculty
European University Institute faculty
Australian historians
People from Melbourne
Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities