Dr Andrekos Varnava

Launch of 'British Imperialism in Cyprus' in Nicosia, November 2010
Position/s:Senior Lecturer in Imperial and Military History
History
Phone: +61 8 82012423
Email:
Location: Social Sciences South (208)
Postal address: GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Biography

Andrekos Varnava was born (1979) and raised in Melbourne to Cypriot-born parents, obtained a BA (Honours) from Monash University (2001) and his PhD from the University of Melbourne (2006). He is the author of British Imperialism in Cyprus, 1878-1915: The Inconsequential Possession (Manchester University Press, 2009; paperback 2012); and the co-editor of Reunifying Cyprus: The Annan Plan and Beyond (I. B. Tauris, 2009; paperback 2011) and The Minorities of Cyprus: Development Patterns and the Identity of the Internal-Exclusion (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009). He has published articles and book chapters in various international journals and volumes and in 2011 became the series editor of Cyprus Historical and Contemporary Studies for Cambridge Scholars Publishing. He was Assistant Professor in History at the European University, Cyprus (October 2006 to January 2009). In January 2009 he was appointed Lecturer in Modern History at Flinders University and in 2012 was promoted to Senior Lecturer. 

Qualifications

BA (H1), Monash University, November 2001
PhD (in History), University of Melbourne, August 2006

Honours, awards and grants

2012:     Visiting Professor, Bogazici University, European Summer 2012
2012:     Australian Academy of the Humanities Travelling Fellowship, $1,500
2009:     Flinders Research Scheme (Faculty), $4,000
2003:     A. G. Leventis Foundation Grant, $US3,500
2003:     Postgraduate Overseas Research Scholarship, University of Melbourne, $3,000
2002:     PhD Fieldwork Grant, University of Melbourne, $2,000
2002-5:  Australian Postgraduate Award (APA)
2000:     Monash Travel Abroad Grant, $1,000

Key responsibilities

Senior Lecturer
School of International Studies Honours Coordinator
History Discipline Honours Coordinator
Member of the School of International Studies Research Committee

Teaching

Teaching interests

The rise and fall of the British empire; war and society in the modern world; the First World War; the history of terrorism and society; Genocide and ethnic cleansing.

Topic Coordinator:

  • HIST1704  History's Killing Fields
  • HIST2002  The Rise of Britannia's Empire and the Colonial Experience
  • HIST2014  War and Society in the Modern World
  • HIST2043  Terrorism and Society in Modern Europe
  • HIST3004  The Fall of Britannia's Empire and the Postcolonial Experience
  • HIST7050  Reading Imperialism

Topic Lecturer:

Research and supervision

Research expertise

  • Historical studies

Research interests

I am an imperial and military historian. My research and publications centre on British imperialism, colonialism and decolonisation in Cyprus, minorities of Cyprus, the Cyprus 'problem', British and French imperial and military policies in the eastern Mediterranean during and immediately after the Great War, the Armenian Genocide and the Armenian Legion (Legion d'Orient). My focus ranges from understanding European imperialism, and military and strategic policies, to socio-economic, political and cultural change in the eastern Mediterranean.

I am currently working on a monograph on the Cypriot Mule Corps (Macedonian Mule Corps), 1916-1920. Forthcoming in 2013 is the co-edited volume: The Archbishops of Cyprus in the Modern Age: The Changing Role of the Archbishop-Ethnarch, their Identities and Politics. I also have articles forthcoming in the journals Accounting History and Historical Research.

To access some of my publications visit http://flinders.academia.edu/AndrekosVarnava

For information on the Cambridge Scholars Publishing book series Cyprus Historical and Contemporary Studies visit http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/series_18.htm

Current Supervision:

PhD candidates in progress

Iliya Marovich-Old, British Imperialism in the Mediterranean and the Rise of Fascism: The Decline of the British Empire during the Inter-War Years (Principal Supervisor).

Ann Matters, British Imperialism in Mesopotamia, 1914-1932 (Principal Supervisor).

Stephanie Jacobs, Christian-Muslim Relations in Cyprus, 1930s to 1950s: Memories of Living Together from Cyprus and Australia (Principal Supervisor)

Mary Stephanie James, Divided Loyalties and Confused Identities? Irish Australians in South Australia and Victoria during Crises of Empire 1867-1923 (Associate Supervisor).

Simon King, The Impact of Opinion Polling on Public Opinion in Australia (Associate Supervisor).

Darryl Burrrows, Anglo-American Representations of the Spanish Civil War during the Cold War (Associate Supervisor).


MA (Research) Candidates in Progress

Marilyn Arnold, Advertising the Empire: Selling Australian Migration to the British, c. 1870s to 1910s (Principal Supervisor).


Completed Supervisions:

Honours

Chloe Ward, British War-time Propaganda and the Russian Woman - H1

Supervisory interests

  • Armenian genocide
  • British imperial expansion and decolonisation
  • Cyprus problem
  • European imperial expansion and decolonisation
  • First World War in the Near and Middle East
  • History, British Empire
  • History, Cyprus 1191-present
  • History, Middle Eastern history of cultural, linguistic and religious minorities
  • History, Ottoman Empire and Turkey
  • Military history
  • South-eastern Europe social, political and cultural change
  • World War 1

RHD research supervision

Current

Principal supervisor: British Imperialism in Mediterranean and Middle East (2); Christian and Muslim Relations in Cyprus, 1930s-1950s (1); 19th Century Australian Migration to Britain (1);

Associate supervisor: The Politics of Polling in Australia (1); The Politics of Historiography (1); Irish Australian Responses to Imperial Crisis, 1860s to 1920s (1);

Publications

Books
Varnava, A. (2009). British imperialism in Cyprus, 1878-1915: the inconsequential possession. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. [online]. http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?owner=184.
Varnava, A. and Faustmann, H. (2009). Reunifying Cyprus: The Annan Plan and Beyond. Hardback. Andrekos Varnava and Hubert Faustmann, ed. London: I. B. Tauris. [online]. http://www.amazon.com/Reunifying-Cyprus-Annan-Plan-Beyond/dp/1848859597.
Varnava, A. (2009). The Minorities of Cyprus: Development Patterns and the Identity of the Internal-Exclusion. Andrekos Varnava, Nicholas Coureas and Marina Elia, ed. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Book chapters
Varnava, A. (2012). British and Greek Liberalism and Imperialism in the Long Nineteenth Century. In MP Fitzpatrick, ed. Liberal Imperialism in Europe. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 219-240.
Varnava, A. and Yakinthou, C. (2011). Cyprus: Political Modernity and the Structures of Democracy in a Divided Island. In John Loughlin, Frank Hendriks and Anders Lidstrom, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy in Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 455-477.
Philippou, S. and Varnava, A. (2009). Constructions of solution(s) to the Cyprus problem: exploring formal curricula in GreekCypriot state schools. In Andrekos Varnava & Hubert Faustmann, ed. Reunifying Cyprus: The Annan Plan and Beyond. London, UK: I. B. Tauris, pp. 194-212.
Refereed journal articles
Varnava, A. (2012). British Military Intelligence in Cyprus during the Great War. War in History, 19(3), pp.353-378. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0968344511430774.
Varnava, A. (2010). The State of Cypriot Minorities: Cultural Diversity, Internal-Exclusion and the Cyprus Problem. The Cyprus Review, 22(2), pp.205-218.
Varnava, A. (2010). Reinterpreting Macmillan's Cyprus Policy, 1957-1960. The Cyprus Review, 22(1), pp.79-106.
Varnava, A. (2010). Martial Races in the Isle of Aphrodite. Journal of Military History, 74(4), pp.1047-1067.

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Books
Varnava, A. (2009). The Minorities of Cyprus: Development Patterns and the Identity of the Internal-Exclusion. Andrekos Varnava, Nicholas Coureas and Marina Elia, ed. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Varnava, A. (2009). British imperialism in Cyprus, 1878-1915: the inconsequential possession. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. [online]. http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?owner=184.
Varnava, A. and Faustmann, H. (2009). Reunifying Cyprus: The Annan Plan and Beyond. Hardback. Andrekos Varnava and Hubert Faustmann, ed. London: I. B. Tauris. [online]. http://www.amazon.com/Reunifying-Cyprus-Annan-Plan-Beyond/dp/1848859597.
Varnava, A. (2001). The Cyprus Problem and the Defence of the Middle East, 1945-1960: Britain's Reluctant Relinquishment of a Place d' Armes. Melbourne: Monash University Publishing.
Book chapters
Varnava, A. (2012). British and Greek Liberalism and Imperialism in the Long Nineteenth Century. In MP Fitzpatrick, ed. Liberal Imperialism in Europe. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 219-240.
Varnava, A. and Yakinthou, C. (2011). Cyprus: Political Modernity and the Structures of Democracy in a Divided Island. In John Loughlin, Frank Hendriks and Anders Lidstrom, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Local and Regional Democracy in Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 455-477.
Philippou, S. and Varnava, A. (2009). Constructions of solution(s) to the Cyprus problem: exploring formal curricula in GreekCypriot state schools. In Andrekos Varnava & Hubert Faustmann, ed. Reunifying Cyprus: The Annan Plan and Beyond. London, UK: I. B. Tauris, pp. 194-212.
Varnava, A. (2009). The minorities of Cyprus in the history of Cyprus textbook for Lyceum students: a critique. In Andrekos Varnava, Nicholas Coureas & Marina Elia, ed. The Minorities of Cyprus: Development Patterns and the Identity of the Internal-Exclusion. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 299-313.
Varnava, A. and Faustmann, H. (2009). Introduction: reunifying Cyprus: the Annan plan and beyond. In Andrekos Varnava & Hubert Faustmann, ed. Reunifying Cyprus: The Annan Plan and Beyond. London, UK: I. B. Tauris, pp. 1-8.
Varnava, A. (2006). Cyprus is of no use to anybody?: the pawn, 1878-1915. In Hubert Faustmann & Nicos Peristianis, ed. Britain in Cyprus: Colonialism and Post-Colonialism 1878-2004. Mohnesee, Germany: Bibliopolis, pp. 35-60.
Refereed journal articles
Varnava, A. (2012). British Military Intelligence in Cyprus during the Great War. War in History, 19(3), pp.353-378. [online]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0968344511430774.
Varnava, A. (2010). Why Alexander Downer will fail in Cyprus. The Flinders Journal of History and Politics, 26, pp.13-25. [online]. http://www.flinders.edu.au/sabs/history/fjhp/2010.cfm.
Varnava, A. (2010). The State of Cypriot Minorities: Cultural Diversity, Internal-Exclusion and the Cyprus Problem. The Cyprus Review, 22(2), pp.205-218.
Varnava, A. (2010). Reinterpreting Macmillan's Cyprus Policy, 1957-1960. The Cyprus Review, 22(1), pp.79-106.
Varnava, A. (2010). Martial Races in the Isle of Aphrodite. Journal of Military History, 74(4), pp.1047-1067.
Varnava, A. (2005). Punch and the British occupation of Cyprus in 1878. Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 29(2), pp.167-186.
Varnava, A. (2005). Recreating rural Britain and maintaining Britishness in the mediterranean: the Troodos hill station in early British Cyprus. The Cyprus Review, 17(2), pp.47-79. [online]. http://www.intercol.edu/media/Research/TCRWebsiteabstractsVol17No2Fall2005.pdf.
Refereed conference papers
Varnava, A. (2004). Maintaining Britishness in a setting of their own design: the Troodos hill station in Cyprus during the early British occupation. In Kate Darian-Smith, Patricia Grimshaw, Kiera Lindsey & Stuart Macintyre, ed. Exploring the British world: identity, cultural production, institutions. British World Conference. pp. 1102-1133. [online]. http://search.informit.com.au/fullText;dn=873872811975960;res=IELHSS.
Journal articles
Varnava, A. (2013). Book Review of Y??cel G????l??'s, Armenians and the Allies in Cilicia, 1914a??1923, University of Utah Press, 2012. Reviews in History, (1419). [online]. http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1419.
Varnava, A. (2012). Book Review of Tabitha Morgan's Sweet and Bitter Island: A History of the British in Cyprus. The Cyprus Review, XXIII(2), pp.149-154.
Varnava, A. (2012). Review of Anastasia Yiangou's, Cyprus in World War II: Politics and Conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean. The Cyprus Review, 24(2), pp.147-150.
Varnava, A. (2012). Untitled Publication.
Varnava, A. (2011). Book Review of William Mallinson, Cyprus: A Modern History, I. B. Tauris, London, (2nd edition) 2009. Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, XLIX(1), pp.148-151.
Varnava, A. (2011). Why the Latest Initiative to Reunify Cyprus will Fail: The Six Pillars of the Cyprus Problem and the Roof. The Cyprus Review, XXIII(1), pp.147-154.
Varnava, A. (2011). Review of Sir George Hill, A History of Cyprus: The Ottoman Province and British Colony, 1571-1948, IV, (ed.) Sir Harry Luke, Cambridge University Press, 2010 (reissue). Reviews in History.
Varnava, A. (2011). Review of Lucia Patrizio Gunning's, The British Consular Service in the Aegean and the Collection of Antiquities for the British Museum, Ashgate, 2009. Journal of Levantine Studies, I, pp.208-211.
Varnava, A. (2010). Book Review of Jo Laycock, Imagining Armenia: Orientalism, Ambiguity and Intervention, Manchester University Press, Manchester and New York, 2009. Reviews in History. [online]. http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/876.
Varnava, A. (2009). Review of (eds.) James Ker-Lindsay and Hubert Faustmann, The Government and Politics of Cyprus, Peter Lang, Bern, 2008. The Cyprus Review, 22(2), pp.157-161.
Varnava, A. (2008). Benjamin Disraeli and Cyprus: Oriental and Imperial Fantasy and Realpolitik. Annual of the Cyprus Research Centre (Epeteris), XXXIV, pp.411-449.
Varnava, A. (2008). Book Review of Murat Metin Hakki's The Cyprus Issue: A Documentary History, 1878-2007. The Cyprus Review, 20(1), pp.135-139.
Varnava, A. (2006). Book Review of Yiannis Papadakis, Nicos Peristianis and Gisela Welz, Divided Cyprus: Modernity, History, and an Island in Conflict. The Cyprus Review, 18(2), pp.167-172.
Varnava, A. (2006). Book review of Mehmet Yashin's step-mothertongue: from nationalism to multiculturalism literatures of Cyprus, Greece and Turkey. The Cyprus Review, 18(1), pp.163-167.
Varnava, A. (2005). Book Review of Anastasios Myrodis Tamis's The Greeks in Australia. Melbourne Historical Journal, 33, pp.80-82.
Varnava, A. (2004). Book Review of Colin Baker's Retreat from Empire: Sir Robert Armitage in Africa and Cyprus. Melbourne Historical Journal, 32, pp.83-85.
Varnava, A. (2003). Book Review of Robert Holland's Britain and the Revolt in Cyprus, 1954-1959. Melbourne Historical Journal, 31, pp.105-107.
Varnava, A. (2002). The Maronite Community of Cyprus: Past, Present and Future. Al-Mashriq: A Quarterly Journal of Middle East Studies, 1(2), pp.45-70.
Other public research outputs
Varnava, A., Coureas, N. and Elia, M. (2009). Editors (Edited collection of refereed chapters emanating from conference). The Minorities of Cyprus: Development Patterns and the Identity of the Internal-Exclusion.
Varnava, A. (2009). 1915 - The Offer of Cyprus to Greece: The British Proposal. Politis Newspaper.
Varnava, A. (2009). The Cypriot orthodox identity during the period of Ottoman and British rule. Politis Newspaper.
Varnava, A. and Faustmann, H. (2009). Editors (Book). Reunifying Cyprus?: the Annan Plan and beyond.
Varnava, A. (2008). Disraeli and Cyprus: Oriental and Imperial Fantasy and Realpolitik. Annual of the Cyprus Research Centre (Epeteris), XXXIV, pp.411-449. [online]. http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/andrekos.varnava.
Varnava, A. (2007). Tearless Finches. Cadences: A Journal of Literature and the Arts in Cyprus, 3(1 & 2), pp.74-76.
Varnava, A. (2007). My Mountain of Three Years Old. Cadences: A Journal of Literature and the Arts in Cyprus, 3(1 & 2), pp.79-80.
Varnava, A. (2007). Trikomo in her Dreams. Cadences: A Journal of Literature and the Arts in Cyprus, 3(1 & 2), pp.81-81.
Varnava, A. (2007). Adapted From.... Cadences: A Journal of Literature and the Arts in Cyprus, 3(1 & 2), pp.77-77.
Varnava, A. (2007). A Far-Off Home, in a Not So Far Off Land. Cadences: A Journal of Literature and the Arts in Cyprus, 3(1 & 2), pp.78-78.

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Professional and community engagement

Consultant on the four-part series 'The Secret Mediterranean with Trevor McDonald', first aired 2011.

Member of the International Society for First World War Studies.

Member of international advisory board of the peer-reviewed The Cyprus Review: A Journal of Social, Economic and Political Issues, University  of Nicosia Publications.

Member of Editorial Advisory and Review Board of Abibisem: Journal of African Culture and Civilisation, Department of History, University of Cape Coast, Ghana.

Member of the Association for Historical Dialogue and Research, Nicosia Cyprus.

Member of the Cyprus Academic Forum (CAF), a group dedicated to bringing together scholars from both sides of the divide in Cyprus and scholars of Cypriot studies that believe in the ideals of CAF.

I have refereed articles for: American Historical Review, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, European History Quarterly, Mediterranean Historical Review, Journal of Mediterranean Studies, The Cyprus Review, The Round Table, The European Legacy, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Mediterranean Politics, Melbourne Historical Journal.

I have refereed book manuscripts for Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, Cambridge Scholars and I. B. Tauris.

Book reviews published or forthcoming in: Reviews in History, The Cyprus Review, Journal of Mediterranean Studies, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Journal of Levantine Studies, Melbourne Historical Journal.

Expertise for media contact

  • History of Cyprus 1191-Present
  • Late Ottoman Empire
  • First World War in the Near and Middle East
  • Greco-Turkish Relations
  • British Imperialism
  • Britain and The Middle East
  • Cyprus Problem

Subject/s

  • Conflict/Disputes
  • History - British
  • History - European
  • Nationalism
  • Refugees
  • Terrorism


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