Glenda Sluga

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Glenda Anna Sluga FAHA (born May 29, 1962, Melbourne), is an Australian historian who has contributed significantly to the history of internationalism, nationalism, diplomacy, immigration, and gender, in Europe, Britain, France, Italy, Yugoslavia, and Australia. [1]

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She is Professor of International History and Capitalism at the European University Institute, in Italy, where she is Director of the European Research Council Project ECOINT and Joint Chair of the Department of History and Civilization and the Robert Schumann Centre for Advanced Studies. [2] She is on secondment from her post as Professor of International History at the University of Sydney. [2] [3]

Life

Sluga was born in Melbourne in 1962. [1] Her parents were Cold War refugees in the 1950s from Slovenian territory of the former Yugoslavia near Trieste. [1] [4] She was raised in the western suburbs of Melbourne and attended Mount Saint Joseph’s Girls College in Altona West. [1]

Education

She completed her BA (Hons) with First-Class Honours in 1985 at the University of Melbourne where she also received her MA (Hons) in 1987. [1] [2] 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. [1] [2] [3] In 1986, she received a Rae and Edit Bennet Scholarship for postgraduate study in the UK and was award a Fulbright Travelling Scholarship. [1] [2] [3] However, in 1988, Sluga attended the University of Sussex 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”. [2] [1]

Career

In 1988, prior to attending the University of Sussex, Sluga was a lecturer at the University of Melbourne. [1] [2] From 1991–1992 she was a Lecturer in Australian Studies at Eötvos Lorand University, Budapest and Kossuth Lajos University, Debrecen, Hungary. [1] [2] In 1993, she became Lecturer in Modern European History in the Department of History at the University of Sydney where she was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1999 and Associate Professor in 2003. [2] [1] She took a year’s break in 2004 to teach as Associate Professor at the Australian Centre, the University of Melbourne. [1] [2] 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 as Professor of International History and Capitalism from 2020–2024. [1] [2] [3] 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. [1] [2]

In 2014 she was awarded a prestigious five year Australian Research Council 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, Marigold Black, Beatrice Wayne, Sarah Dunstan, and Sabine Selchow amongst others. [5] [6]

Sluga is currently directing the five-year research project: Twentieth-Century International Economic Thinking, and the Complex History of Globalization (ECOINT). [3] [2] The project is funded by the European Research Council’s Advanced Research Grant and looks at how economic thinking has shaped globalization with a focus on the impact of women economic thinkers and business NGOs in international institutions. [2] [7] [3]

Sluga’s research focuses on Modern European history, the East and West from the 18–20th century, the history of Capitalism, European Empires in Asia-Pacific, the history of Internationalism and Nationalism, Settler Societies, Diplomatic History, Environmental History, Women and Gender. [2] She has been published in Italian, Spanish and Swedish and speaks English, French, Italian, and Slovenian. [1] [2]

Awards

In 2002, she received the Australian Academy of Humanities’ biennial Max Crawford Medal which recognizes outstanding achieved in the humanities by young Australian scholars contributing towards the understanding of their discipline by the general public. [1] [3] [8]  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. [3] [9] [10] She was the 2014–2018  recipient of the Australian Research Council's Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellowship. [3] [5]

She has been a visiting fellow at Monash University (1996); the Australian National University (1997); the Institute des Études Politiques de Paris (2000); the European University Institute, Florence (2001); Cambridge University (2001 & 2007); Harvard University (2000 & 2012); the University of Melbourne (2003); Leiden University (2003); the University of Bologna (2009); the Foundation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris (2012); and the University of Vienna (2013). [1] [3]

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 The University of Melbourne. "Sluga, Glenda Anna". The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 "Glenda Sluga". European University Institute. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Staff Profile". The University of Sydney. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
  4. ↑ "Glenda Sluga appointed Joint Professor of International History and Capitalism". European University Institute. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  5. 1 2 Council, Australian Research (12 June 2018). "Profiles: Kathleen Fitzpatrick Fellows". www.arc.gov.au. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  6. ↑ "Laureate Research Program in International History". The University of Sydney. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  7. ↑ "Twentieth-Century International Economic Thinking, and the Complex History of Globalization (ECOINT)". European University Institute. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
  8. ↑ "Crawford Medal | Australian Academy of the Humanities". 18 April 2014. Archived from the original on 18 April 2014. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  9. ↑ "Fellows". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
  10. ↑ "Research Supervisor Profile for Professor Glenda Sluga". University of Sydney. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
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