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Centre members

Associate Professor Nick Bisley

PhD, London School of Economics
N.Bisley@latrobe.edu.au
Staff Profile

Nick Bisley is Associate Professor in International Relations and Convenor of the Politics and International Relations Program at La Trobe University, Melbourne. His research and teaching expertise is in the international relations of the Asia-Pacific, globalization and the diplomacy of the great powers. Nick is a member of the Council for Security and Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific and is the author of Rethinking Globalization (Palgrave, 2007) The End of the Cold War and the Causes of Soviet Collapse (Palgrave, 2004). He regularly contributes to national and international media.


Cristian Brasoveanu

Honorary Research Associate

Diplomat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania

Cristian.Brasoveanu@arts.monash.edu.au
Curriculum Vitae (doc 46kb)


Dr Matt Harvey

PhD, Monash University
Curriculum Vitae

Matt Harvey is a Lecturer at Victoria University. He specializes in EU law and comparative European legal systems. He wrote his thesis on EU constitutional law. He has been a Robert Schuman Scholar at the European Parliament and a Visiting Research Fellow at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and co-authored a book on EU law for Australians.


Peter Howard

PhD, Monash University
peter.howard@arts.monash.edu.au
Staff Profile

Peter Howard is a Senior Lecturer, School of Historical Studies. He holds a PhD in history from Monash and has completed advanced studies in theology through the Melbourne College of Divinity and Corpus Christi College (1972-1980). He has held fellowships at the European University Institute, Florence, and at 'Villa I Tatti': the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Florence), where in 2007 he was Lila Wallace Readers Digest Visiting Professor. He has spent a period as a visiting scholar at the Istituto per le Scienze Religiose in Bologna. He is a member and occasional Acting Director of, the Monash Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology. He has been Secretary and Public Officer of the Australian European University Institute Fellowships Association Inc. since 1995.


Dr Jeff Jarvis

PhD, Monash University
Jeff.Jarvis@arts.monash.edu.au
Staff Profile

Dr Jeff Jarvis specialises in the field of Tourism Marketing and Tourism Development. He is also a founding member of the cross faculty Tourism Research Unit (TRU) at Monash. He completed research both in Australia and Scandinavia as a visiting researcher at Uppsala University in Sweden, for his PhD on the strategic importance of youth tourism to Australia. In 2003 he was invited to participate as part of the EU-funded TEMPUS project in constructing a strategic plan for the development of tourism and cultural industries in Bosnia - Herzegovina focusing on identifying the opportunities offered by independent travellers/backpackers in economic development for the Balkan state. Jeff has international lecturing experience delivering units or guest lectures at key universities in Sweden, Estonia, Norway, Germany, Denmark, Latvia and the United Kingdom. His key research interests include tourism development patterns in post-communist transition economies of Eastern Europe.


Professor Harri Kalimo

PhD, Turku University Faculty of Law, Finland
Harri.Kalimo@vub.ac.be
Curriculum Vitae

Harri Kalimo is Professor at the Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium and Visiting Fellow at Yale University. He is also an Associate Professor at the Turku School of Economics. During his visit to the Monash Faculty of Law and the Monash European and EU Centre, Harri taught EU Law, one of the core units in the Master in European and International Studies.


Professor Bill Kent

PhD, University of London
Bill.Kent@arts.monash.edu.au
Staff Profile

Founding Director of the Monash Prato Centre in Italy from 2000-04, Bill Kent is Professor of History and Australian Professorial Fellow in the Faculty of Arts at Monash University, where he has taught for his entire career. He is a widely published historian of Renaissance Italy, specializing in the politics and culture of Quattrocento Florence. His most recent book is Lorenzo de' Medici and the Art of Magnificence (2004). Since 2004, he has been General Editor of the twenty volume critical edition of Lorenzo de' Medici's correspondence.


Dr Patrick Kimunguyi

PhD, University of Warsaw, Poland
patrick.kimunguyi@adm.monash.edu.au
Curriculum Vitae (doc 42kb)

Patrick Kimunguyi, holds an M.A. in International Relations and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Warsaw. Patrick has lectured in European history and politics at Monash University and  in global politics at the University of Melbourne. His current research interests include North-South relations in particular on media perceptions of the European Union (EU) in Africa. He has published on EU development aid, trade, security, conflict prevention and humanitarian policies.


Annick Masselot

LLM by research, University College Dublin
annick.masselot@canterbury.ac.nz
Staff Profile

Annick Masselot has worked as a lecturer at Strathclyde University in Glasgow, Scotland (1996-2000) and as a researcher at Tilburg University in the Netherlands (2000-2002). From 2000 to 2006, she co-ordinated, together with Sacha Prechal, the European Commission's Network of legal experts on the application of Community law on equal treatment between women and men. In 2002, she was appointed Senior Lecturer in European Law at the University of Leeds. She was the deputy director of the Centre for the Study of Law and Policy in Europe (2002-2007). Her research interests focus on EU law, gender equality and equal treatment, social law, reconciliation between work and family life, pregnancy and maternity rights. In 2006, Annick was granted a Marie Curie Fellowship (2007-2010) to study the relationship between scientific excellence, human mobility and gender equality in the context of the EU and the New Zealand scientific markets. The research project is based at the National Centre for the Research on Europe at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch.


Dr Annamaria Pagliaro

PhD, University of Melbourne
Annamaria.Pagliaro@arts.monash.edu.au

Annamaria Pagliaro is Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies at Monash University. She was Academic Director of the Prato Monash University Centre from 2005 to 2008. She taught at La Trobe University and the University of Melbourne before joining Monash in 1991. Her research interest and supervision are in 19th and early 20th century Italian literature, literary theory and Italian theatre. She has published widely on the development of the 19th century novel, Italian Verismo. She is a member of the editorial board for the Melbourne-based journal Spunti e Ricerche and edited several volumes including Naturalism and Beyond. Fragmentation and Transformation of the Real (2006).


Associate Professor Marko Pavlyshyn

PhD, Monash University
marko.pavlyshyn@arts.monash.edu.au
Staff Profile
Curriculum Vitae (doc 57kb)

Marko Pavlyshyn is Head of the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics and previous Director of the Centre of European Studies at Monash. His area of expertise is East European studies and Ukrainian studies. Marko teaches extensively in the European Studies program and undertakes research on European culture and identity.


Dr Jagjit Plahe

jagjit.plahe@buseco.monash.edu.au
Staff Profile
Curriculum Vitae (doc 106kb)

Dr Plahe is Lecturer in International Political Economy, Course Director Diplomacy and Trade Program, Department of Management, Monash University, Faculty of Business and Economics. She possesses extensive teaching and research experience in international relations and has published on international governance in Third World Quarterly, Development and Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy.


Professor Alberta Sbragia

PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States
Curriculum Vitae (pdf 237kb)

Alberta Sbragia is Mark A. Nordenberg University Chair, Research Professor, Department of Political Science, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam and Director of the European Union Centre of Excellence/European Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh, in the US. She was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Monash European and EU Centre in 2008. Her areas of expertise are comparative politics, Western Europe, comparative regionalism, EU politics, comparative federalism and religion. During her visit to the Centre she taught one of the core units of the Master in European and International Studies: Comparative Regionalism .


Professor Nigel Tapper

PhD, University of Canterbury, NZ
Nigel.Tapper@arts.monash.edu.au
Staff Profile

Professor Nigel Tapper holds a Personal Chair in Environmental Science at Monash University where he is currently the Head of the School of Geography and Environmental Science. Until February 2007 he was Foundation Director of the Monash Sustainability Institute, a University research institute responsible for facilitating and coordinating Monash-wide research across the key themes of Climate, Water, Energy, Biodiversity and Transport. He has strong teaching and research interests in Europe where he teaches a Monash class "Cultural Landscape, Environment and Sustainability" in the Cinque Terre, Italy and where he has recently established collaborations with a number of institutions to investigate climate change impacts on agriculture and forestry.


Professor Marika Vicziany

PhD, University of London
Marika.Vicziany@adm.monash.edu.au
Staff Profile

Marika Vicziany is Professor of Asian Political Economy, Director, Monash Asia Institute (MAI) and Director, National Centre for South Asian Studies at Monash University. She is a specialist on India with 34 years of experience working on Indian economic development/ business, mass poverty, and regional security. Her inter-disciplinary research includes comparisons with Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia and China at the city, town and village levels. Professor Vicziany has extensive networks with key government, academic and media organisations in India. Her publications include (2008) Marika Vicziany with Robert Cribb (Eds.), Is this the Asian Century? Proceedings of the 17th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, Melbourne and (2007) Marika Vicziany (ed.) Controlling Arms and Terror: Regional Security in the Asia Pacific after Bali and Baghdad, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham (UK)/Northampton (USA).

 

 

Associate members

  • Professor Fania Oz-Salzberger
    Leon Liberman Chair in Modern Israel Studies, Australian Centre for Jewish Civilization, Monash University

 

 
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