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Melbourne (Bundoora) Academic Staff
Melbourne (Bundoora) Administrative Staff

Melbourne (Bundoora) Academic Staff

Name
Position
Research/Teaching Interests
Telephone
Email
Dennis Altman Professor and
Program Convenor
Sexuality and sexual regulation; politics of HIV/AIDS; politics and culture of the United States and Australia +61 3 9479 2699 d.altman@latrobe.edu.au
Luca Anceschi Research Fellow International Relations of the Post-Soviet world; International Relations of the Middle East; Central Asian Politics; The foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran; Contemporary Islamic political thought; Inter-ethnic, Inter-cultural and Inter-Religious Dialogue +61 3 9479 2295 l.anceschi@latrobe.edu.au
Stefan Auer Senior Lecturer The self-limiting revolutions of 1989 in Central Europe and their more recent reincarnations (e.g. Ukraine 2004); political thought of dissident intellectuals and Hannah Arendt; nationalism in Central Europe; enlargement of the European Union +61 3 9479 3239 s.auer@latrobe.edu.au
Damien Bailey Lecturer Capitalist development in colonial India and its historiography; politics of historical scholarship and Marxist and ‘post-Marxist’ thought; the relationship between history and politics through a range of thinkers including Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Slavoj Žižek and Alain Badiou +61 3 9479 1421 damien.bailey@latrobe.edu.au
Nick Bisley Associate Professor International Relations +61 3 9479 2692 n.bisley@latrobe.edu.au
Judith Brett Professor and Head of School Australian politics and society; liberalism; political biography +61 3 9479 2300 j.brett@latrobe.edu.au
Roberta Buccomino Research Officer Centre for Dialogue +61 3 9479 2479 r.buccomino@latrobe.edu.au
Janelle Cairns Research Officer Centre for Dialogue +61 3 9479 2479 j.cairns@latrobe.edu.au
Joseph Camilleri Professor International relations; peace, security and strategic studies; Asia-Pacific regionalism +61 3 9479 2698 j.camilleri@latrobe.edu.au
John Chiddick Lecturer International relations; the Middle East; the Cold War; foreign policy debates and the interventionism in the post-Cold War era +61 3 9479 1699 j.chiddick@latrobe.edu.au
Michael Connors Senior Lecturer Politics of Southeast Asia; democratic theory; Marxism and the State; Thai politics; international relations in Asia and the Pacific +61 3 9479 2294 michael.connors@latrobe.edu.au
Leon Glezer Honorary Visiting Fellow Political economy; public policy; government and business +61 3 9479 2704 l.glezer@latrobe.edu.au
Robert Horvath Charles La Trobe Research Fellow Eastern Europe and international human rights +61 3 9479 1369 r.horvath@latrobe.edu.au
Anthony Jarvis Lecturer International relations theory; international organisations and economic change; globalisation; politics of regional economic organisations, especially the European Union +61 3 9479 2696 t.jarvis@latrobe.edu.au
Matthew Killingsworth Associate Lecturer International Relations; Communist and post-Communist studies; European studies +61 3 9479 2691 m.killingworth@latrobe.edu.au
James Leibold Lecturer Role of ethnicity, race and national identity in contemporary Chinese history and society; the construction and politicisation of history in contemporary Asia and Australia-Asia relations +61 3 9479 2089 j.leibold@latrobe.edu.au
Robert Manne Professor
Politics of Eastern and Central Europe; international relations; the Cold War; communism; Australian politics and culture +61 3 9479 2114 r.manne@latrobe.edu.au
Larry Marshall Research Officer International relations; peace and security; conflict resolution. Focus on the Asia Pacific Peace Process in Sri Lanka and Philippines +61 3 9479 1688 l.marshall@latrobe.edu.au
Aran Martin Research Officer Centre for Dialogue +61 3 9479 2479 aran.martin@latrobe.edu.au
Ross Martin Emeritus Professor Theories of trade unionism; comparative trade unionism +61 3 9479 1701 r.martin@latrobe.edu.au
Angus McIntyre Senior Lecturer Indonesian politics and society; political psychology; biography; studies of political leadership +61 3 9479 2289 a.mcintyre@latrobe.edu.au
Michális Michael Research Fellow International relations; conflict resolution; conflict prevention; Greece-Turkey-Cyprus; foreign policy formation; inter-ethnic, inter-cultural and inter-religious civilization dialogue; United Nations; peacemaking and peacebuilding +61 3 9479 2140 m.michael@latrobe.edu.au
John Miller Honorary Associate Nationalism; politics of ethnicity and language; politics of Russia and the former Soviet Union; politics of Eastern and Central Europe and the Balkans; postwar German politics; Islamic politics; communism +61 3 9479 2704 j.miller@latrobe.edu.au
George Myconos Research Fellow Transnational labour relations; theories of globalization, ideology; international relations theory. +61 3 9479 1419 g.myconos@latrobe.edu.au
James Oaten Research Officer Centre for Dialogue +61 3 9479 2443 j.oaten@latrobe.edu.au
Michael O'Keefe Lecturer Security; Australia's defence and foreign policies; international ethics +61 3 9479 2676 m.okeefe@latrobe.edu.au
Uldis Ozolins Lecturer Australian politics; politics of ethnicity and language; cultural diversity; language policy; Eastern European politics
+61 3 9479 1701 u.ozolins@latrobe.edu.au
Aron Paul Associate Lecturer Australian politics; political history; and urban heritage and social history +61 3 9479 2666 a.paul@latrobe.edu.au
Talis Polis Honorary Research Fellow   +61 3 9479 1701 t.polis@latrobe.edu.au
Anne-Maree Sawyer Research Fellow Social policy and the welfare state; mental health policy and practice; the rise of risk assessment and risk management in the human services; biographical/ life story methodology in the social sciences; the sociology of literary fiction and auto/biography +61 3 9479 3186 a.sawyer@latrobe.edu.au
Sanjay Seth Reader/
Associate Professor
Note: On secondment
until June 2009
   
Gwenda Tavan Lecturer History and politics of race; immigration and nationalism; Australia-Asia relations +61 3 9479 1287 2289 g.tavan@latrobe.edu.au
Bryce Weber Lecturer   +61 3 9479 1346 b.weber@latrobe.edu.au
Tom Weber Reader and Associate Professor Peace and nonviolence, conflict resolution, social and political thought of M.K. Gandhi +61 3 9479 1289

t.weber@latrobe.edu.au

Craig Woolley Tutor
Manager
Politics
Centre for Dialogue
+61 3 9479 2479 c.woolley@latrobe.edu.au

Melbourne (Bundoora) Administrative Staff

Name Position Telephone Email
Enquiries General Office +61 3 9479 2287 politics@latrobe.edu.au
Ms Liz Byrne Program Administrator +61 3 9479 3664 l.byrne@latrobe.edu.au
Ms Jane Rowe Administrative Officer +61 3 9479 2287 jane.rowe@latrobe.edu.au
Ms Christine Siokou Administrative Officer
(Centre for Dialogue)
+61 3 9479 1893 c.siokou@latrobe.edu.au

 

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