Staff profile

Dr Ian Bruce Coller

Senior 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

Dr Ian Coller 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, and was the recipient of the W.K. Hancock Award of the Australian Historical Association. He was the recipient of an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship from 2007-2011, and the AEUIFAI fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence in 2011. He is currently working on an ARC funded project on “Europe, Islam and Modernity: The French Revolution and the Muslim World 1789-1799.”

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 FRE 2/3
  • FRF:  France in Film: The Invention of France 1789-1919

Recent publications

Books

  • Ian Coller, Arab France: Islam and the Making of Modern Europe 1798-1831, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010

Book Chapters

  • Ian Coller, “Egypt in the French Revolution” in Lynn Hunt, Suzanne Desan & William Nelson (eds) Globalizing the French Revolution (Cornell University Press, 2013), 220-247.
  • Ian Coller, “The Revolutionary Mediterranean” in Peter McPhee (ed.) The Blackwell-Wiley Companion to the French Revolution (Blackwell Wiley: 2013), 419-434.
  • Ian Coller, “Les Musulmans français et les politiques d’Islam dans l’Europe post-révolutionnaire," in Jocelyne Dakhlia et Bernard Vincent (eds) Les Musulmans dans l’histoire de l’Europe 1: Une intégration invisible, (Paris: Albin Michel, 2011), 101-142.
  • Ian Coller, "Cosmopolitanism and Extraterritoriality: Europeans in 18th Century Turkey," in Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp (ed.)Europa und die Türkei im 18. Jahrhundert / Europe and Turkey in the Eighteenth Century. Grenzüberschreitungen in kosmopolitischer Zeit (Bonn: V&R Unipress, 2011), 205-218.
  • Ian Coller, "Race and Slavery in the Making of Arab France" in Richard Bessel, Nicholas Guyatt and Jane Rendall (eds) War, Empire and Slavery, 1770-1830, (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 61-80.
  • Ian Coller, “Pratiques de voyage et mobilités arabes dans la France de l’Empire et de la Restauration,” Nicolas Bourguinat (ed.) Voyager en Europe de Humboldt à Stendhal: Contraintes nationales et tentations cosmopolites 1790-1840, (Paris: Nouveau Monde, 2007)

Journal Articles

  • Ian Coller, “East of Enlightenment: Regulating Cosmopolitanism between Istanbul and Paris in the Eighteenth Century," 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