All research supervisors

Dr Sofia Ahlberg-MacInnes

Sofia's academic interests include transatlantic literary studies, hemispheric studies and world literature.

Professor Dennis Altman

Dennis' academic interests include sexuality and sexual regulation, politics of HIV/AIDS, politics and culture of the United States and Australia.

Dr Luca Anceschi

Luca's academic interests include a critical investigation of Asia’s energy security in the climate change era and a comprehensive analysis of Kazakhstan’s foreign policy.

Ms Julie Andrews

Julie’s academic interests include childhood, identity and Aboriginal Australia.

Dr Stefan Auer

Stefan's academic interests include the self-limiting revolutions of 1989 in Central Europe, political thought of dissident intellectuals and nationalism in Europe, and more recently the Eurozone crisis and its impact on the project of Euro

Dr Tracey Banivanua Mar

Tracey's academic interests include Race relations, Australian and Pacific Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Indigenous studies and Australian and Pacific History.

Dr Miriam Bankovsky

Miriam Bankovsky lectures in political theory for the Politics and International Relations program at La Trobe. Her research objective is to contribute to the development of theories of democracy. She pursues this objective by bringing a de

Dr Nicholas Barry

Nicholas' academic interests include Australian politics and political theory.

Mr Tony Barta

Research interests include 20th Century German history; especially. relations between social life, culture and ideology; genocide in colonial societies; History media.

Dr Lisa Beaven

Lisa’s academic interests include art and travel, landscape painting and ecology in the Roman Campagna, antiquarianism and the history of collecting in early modern Europe, and landscape theory.

Professor Peter Beilharz

Peter's academic interests include social theory, labourism, socialism and comparative history of sociology and social theory.

Mr John Benson

John’s academic interests include popular current affairs television, television news, popular culture and the media and media curriculum design.

Professor Nick Bisley

Nick's academic interests include International Relations of the Asia-Pacific and globalization and the diplomacy of great powers.

Ms Angie Black

Angie is a film practitioner who continues to develop a number of her own screen projects. She has a diverse background and research areas in film and television production, screenwriting and the genres of comedy, drama, sci-fi and speculat

Dr Greg Bognar

My research interests are in ethics, social and political philosophy, especially bioethics, public health ethics, environmental ethics, and the philosophy of public policy. I'm also interested in health and environmental economics, philoso

Dr Wendy Bowler

Wendy's academic interests include the visual media story and the theme of tragedy.

Professor David Bradley

David has conducted extensive research on endangered languages, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and geolinguistics

Dr Susan Bradley Smith

Susan’s academic interests include women's theatre history, playwriting, feminist theory, life writing, Australian literature and drama, contemporary poetry, and writing and health.

Dr Ross Brady

Ross's academic interests include formal logic and its paradoxes.

Dr Daniel Bray

Daniel's academic interests include International Relations, globalisation, political theory (particularly democratic theory), and environmental politics.

Professor Andrew Brennan

Professor Brennan has research interests in Environmental Philosophy, Comparative history of science & medicine entailment & contitionals identity & personal identity, Environmental ethics, Philosophy & Environmental policy worldviews, atti

Professor Judith Brett

Professor Brett's academic interests include Australian politics and society, liberalism and political biography.

Mr Kevin Brianton

Kevin Brianton has more than 30 years’ experience in market research, journalism and public relations. He worked as both a consultant and as a manager in government and private industry.

Professor Richard Broome

Professor Broome’s current research interests focuses on Aboriginal history. Professor Broome has served on the History Institute of Victoria for ten years, and was a consultant to the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (

Mr Trevor Budge AM

Trevor's academic interests include statutory and strategic planning in rural and regional Australia.

Dr Philip Bull

Philip's academic interests include Irish and British history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, contemporary political issues relating to Ireland or Britain and land and nationalism.

Mr Rob Burgess

Rob Burgess has worked as a journalist since 1994, filling various writing and editing roles on around 30 publications in the UK, Hong Kong and Australia.

Dr Roland Burke

Roland’s research interests include the origins of human rights, decolonization, and twentieth-century guerrilla and national liberation movements.

Mr Andrew Butt

Andrew's academic interest include changing patterns of landuse and farming in peri-urban areas of Australian cities, demographic and social change in rural Australia and comparative planning issues in Sri Lanka and Australia.