Staff profile

Dr Ian Bruce Coller

Lecturer

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Historical and European Studies

DMB E101, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA (Hons) Melb; PhD Melb

Membership of professional Associations

Australian Historical Association, American Historical Association, Society for French Historical Studies, George Rudé Society

Area of study

History

Brief Profile

Ian joined the department in 2011, after extensive undergraduate teaching at the University of Melbourne. His Book Arab France: Islam and the Making of Modern Europe 1798-1831, based on his PhD research, was published by The University of California Press in 2010. He was the recipient of an Australian Research Council postdoctoral award from 2007-2011, and the AEUIFAI fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence in 2011. 

Research interests

European History

- Europe and the Muslim world since the eighteenth century

- The French Revolution and the global history of the Revolutionary age

Teaching Units

  • HIS 2 NCA:  Nationalism and Capitalism
  • HIS 2/3 FRF:  France in Film: The Invention of France 1789-1919

Recent Publications

  • Ian Coller, Arab France: Islam and the Making of Modern Europe 1798-1831, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010
  • Ian Coller, “Les musulmans français et les politiques d’Islam dans l’Europe post-révolutionnaire," in Jocelyne Dakhlia (ed.) Les Musulmans en Europe, Paris: Albin Michel, forthcoming 2012.
  • Ian Coller, " Race and Slavery in the Making of Arab France, 1802–15" in Richard Bessel, Nicholas Guyatt and Jane Rendall (eds) War, Empire and Slavery, 1770-1830, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, 61-80
  • Ian Coller, “East of Enlightenment: Provincializing Europeans in Eighteenth Century Paris and Istanbul," Journal of World History 21 (2010): 447-470
  • Ian Coller, “Arab France: Mobility and Community in Early Nineteenth Century Paris and Marseille,” French Historical Studies, Special Issue “Mobility in French History” 28 (2006): 433-456