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 will publish 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 and Working groups

• Twentieth-Century International Economic Thinking, and the Complex History of Globalisation

Supervisees

• Brecht Rogissart
• Emma Rylander
• Jennifer Ashby
• Marie-Theres Findeisen
• Marta Chmielewska
• Mónica Monmeneu González
• Siobhan Smith

Fields of expertise

• Europe in the world
• Modern history
• Global history
• Empires
• Colonialism
• Environmental history
• 20th century (Twentieth century)
• Decolonisation
• Cold War
• Cultural history
• Intellectual history
• European borderlands
• 19th century (Nineteenth century)
• Enlightenment
• Economic history
• Capitalism
• Political history
• Transnational history
• Globalisation
• International history
• European integration
• Mediterranean
• Diplomatic History
• Indian Ocean history
• Nationalism
• Asia-Pacific

Recent research output

• SLUGA, Glenda (ed/s), DE GRAAF, Beatrice; RANDERIA, Shalini (2022), The past of Europe’s future, Video
• SLUGA, Glenda (2021), Habsburg histories of internationalism, Contribution to book
• SLUGA, Glenda (2021), From F. Melian Stawell to E. Greene Balch : international and internationalist thinking at the gender margins, 1919–1947, Contribution to book
• SLUGA, Glenda (2021), The invention of international order : remaking Europe after Napoleon, Book
• SLUGA, Glenda (2021), ‘Sleepwalking’ from planetary thinking to the end of the international order, Working Paper
• SLUGA, Glenda (2021), Twentieth-century international economic thinking, and the complex history of globalization : a new research programme, Working Paper