Glenda Sluga

Glenda Sluga is Professor of International History in the Department of History at the University of Sydney, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. She earned a Bachelor of Arts with First-Class Honours from the University of Melbourne in 1985, a Master of Arts Honours in 1987, and a Doctor of Philosophy in History from the University of Sussex in 1993. Prior to her extensive tenure at Sydney, she held positions as Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Melbourne in 1988 and Lecturer in Australian Studies at Eötvos Lorand University in Budapest and Kossuth Lajos University in Debrecen, Hungary, from 1991 to 1992. Joining the University of Sydney in 1993 as Lecturer in Modern European History, she progressed to Senior Lecturer from 1999 to 2002, Associate Professor of Modern European History from 2003 to 2007, and Professor of International History since 2008. She served as Head of the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry in 2010, Deputy Head from 2011 to 2013, ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellow from 2014 to 2019 for the project Inventing the International, and Visiting Professor since 2020.

Sluga's academic interests encompass international history, internationalism, nationalism, the cultural history of international relations, European nationalisms, sovereignty, identity, immigration, and gender history. Her key publications include The Invention of International Order: Remaking Europe after Napoleon (Princeton University Press, 2021), Internationalism in the Age of Nationalism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), Internationalisms: A Twentieth-Century History co-edited with Patricia Clavin (Cambridge University Press, 2017), The Nation, Psychology, and International Politics, 1870-1919 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), The Problem of Trieste and the Italo-Yugoslav Border: Difference, Identity, and Sovereignty in Twentieth-Century Europe (State University of New York Press, 2001), and Gendering European History: 1780-1920 co-authored with Barbara Caine (Leicester University Press, 2000). She has edited volumes such as Sites of International Memory with Kate Darian-Smith and Madeleine Herren (2023), Women, Diplomacy and International Politics since 1500 with Carolyn James (2016), and contributed to projects including ARC-funded studies on the origins of international society and early United Nations years. Major awards include the ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellowship (2013), Fellowship of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (2010), Max Crawford Medal (2002), and FASS Mentoring Award (2013). Sluga has participated in working parties devising teaching programs, including the Global Studies degree, and edited special issues on transnational history and cosmopolitanism.

Professional Email: glenda.sluga@sydney.edu.au