All research supervisors
Politics
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.
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 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.
Professor Nick Bisley
Nick's academic interests include International Relations of the Asia-Pacific and globalization and the diplomacy of great powers.
Dr Daniel Bray
Daniel's academic interests include International Relations, globalisation, political theory (particularly democratic theory), and environmental politics.
Professor Judith Brett
Professor Brett's academic interests include Australian politics and society, liberalism and political biography.
Dr Rachel Busbridge
Rachel’s main research interests are the politics of recognition and reconciliation, postcolonialism and colonial legacies, nation, identity and culture, which she has explored in the contexts of Australian multiculturalism and Israel-Pal
Professor Joseph Camilleri
Joseph's academic interests include International Relations, peace, security and strategic studies and Asia-Pacific regionalism.
Dr Michael Connors
Michael Connors is a specialist in Thai studies with a focus on ideas and politics. He also writes on international politics.
Dr Benjamin Habib
Ben’s acedemic interests include North Korea’s motivations for nuclear proliferation, East Asian security and the politics of climate change.
Dr James Leibold
Dr Leibold is a political historian of modern China with specific research expertise on the role of ethnicity, race and national identity in modern Chinese history and society, and the intersections between historical memory and ethnic iden
Professor Robert Manne
Professor Manne's academic interests include Australian political culture and intellectuals and politics.
Dr Sally Ninham
I have studied at La Trobe University, the Australian National University, RMIT, and the University of Hamburg. I have a PhD from La Trobe where I was supervised by Professor Judith Brett in the department of Political Science.
Dr Sven Schottmann
Sven Schottmann’s main research interests are Muslim social movements in Southeast Asia, as well as the range of intellectual and imaginative encounters between Muslims in different parts of the world. He has established a significant pub
Dr Jonathan Symons
Jonathan's research interests include the politics and ethics of climate change, energy security and geo-engineering; theories of political and sociological legitimacy; processes of international norm change; and constructivist internationa
Dr Gwenda Tavan
Gwenda's research interests include the politics and history of immigration in Australian and transnational contexts, race and racism, nationalism, Australia political culture, leadership studies.
Dr Dirk Tomsa
Dirk's academic interests include Indonesian politics and society, democratization studies, political Islam in Asia, and comparative Southeast Asian politics, especially elections and party politics.
Dr Thomas Weber
Thomas' academic interests include Peace studies and non-violent activism with an emphasis on the thought and political activism of Mahatma Gandhi.
