Biography

Professor of International History and Capitalism.

Glenda Sluga is Professor of International History and Capitalism. In 2020, she was awarded a European Research Council Advanced Grant, overseeing a five-year research program on ‘Twentieth Century International Economic Thinking and the complex history of globalization.’ In 2021, Princeton University Press published her latest book, ‘The Invention of International Order: Remaking Europe after Napoleon’.
Professor Sluga is also an Australian Research Council Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laurate Fellow, as the recipient in 2013 of a five-year fellowship for ‘Inventing the International’. She is also a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Research projects, clusters and working groups

Ongoing

• International organizations and the commodification of natural resources, 1945-1975
• Twentieth-century international economic thinking, and the complex history of globalisation
• Universities under pressure: party, personnel, and dissent in Socialist Slovenia
• International Thinking and Planetary Futures
• Finance and society
• Diplomatic/International History Working Group

Completed

• Rebuilding peace: universities and knowledge in the 1940s post-war world
• Business History Working Group
• Conversation on New Histories of Capitalism

Supervisees

• Amaya Gandy
• Arina Fedorova
• Emma Rylander
• Jennifer Ashby
• Jochem Rinsma
• Lutz Wahnschaffe
• Maksim Shulga
• Mónica Monmeneu González
• Nefeli Charvalia
• Siobhán Amelia Smith
• Thomas Sorensen
• Victoria Ciobanu Austveg

Currently second reader for:

• Freek Loves
• Jonas Tilsted
• Robert Varik
• Viktor Blum
• Wouter Baas

Fields of expertise

Recent research output

• SLUGA, Glenda (2025), Mineral/natural resources in 'Asia and the Far East', and the legacies of empire in a shifting international order, 1947-1974, Working Paper
• SELCHOW, Sabine Ulrike; SLUGA, Glenda (2024), Development, international organizations and international economic thinking : a conceptual contribution, Contribution to book
• AYDIN, Cemil; BALLOR, Grace Ann; CONRAD, Sebastian Anton; COOPER, Frederick; CUUNJIENG ABOITIZ, Nicole; DRAYTON, Richard; GOEBEL, Michael; JUDSON, Pieter M.; KOTT, Sandrine; MILLER, Nicola; ROSHWALD, Aviel; SLUGA, Glenda; WALKER, Lydia (2024), Rethinking nationalism, Article
• SLUGA, Glenda (2024), Globalizing publics and the future of political history : comment on the forum, Article
• SLUGA, Glenda (2024), Climate and capitalists : Barbara Ward, Margaret Mead, and the 1972 United Nations Conference on the human environment, Contribution to book
• JACKSON, Peter; MULLIGAN, William; SLUGA, Glenda (2023), Peacemaking and international order after the First World War, Book