Professor Matt Fitzpatrick

Professor

College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

+61 8 82012125

matthew.fitzpatrick@flinders.edu.au

Social Sciences South (396)

GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Dr Fitzpatrick is an associate professor in international history. His research is in the field of German and European history, particularly the history of European imperialism, German liberalism and nationalism. He is also interested in the comparative history of empires, and intellectual history.

Qualifications

PhD (UNSW), MA (Syd), BA (Syd), Dip.ed.(Newc)

Honours, awards and grants

2018-2020 - ARC Discovery Grant: DP 180100118 'Monarchy, Democracy and Empire'

2017 - DAAD Australia-Germany Joint Research Co-operation Scheme Grant

2016 - Erasmus Plus International Mobility Grant

2014 - Chester Penn Higby Prize

2014 - Alexander von Humboldt Visiting Fellow Westphalian Wilhelms-University, Münster

2014 - Australian Academy of Humanities Ernst and Rosemarie Keller Fellow

2011 - Border Crossings Mobility Grant (Jagiellonian University / Utrecht University)

2010/11 - Alexander von Humboldt Fellow Westphalian Wilhelms-University, Münster

2010 - Australian Academy of Humanities Ernst Keller Fellow

2004 - DAAD Postgraduate Research Fellow.

Key responsibilities

Editor History Australia

Series Editor, Bloomsbury Modern German History

Secretary, Australasian Association of European History

Editorial Board Member, Central European History

International Advisory Board Member, Research Centre for Germanic Connections with New Zealand and the Pacific.

Research expertise

Historical studies

Research interests

comparative imperialism, German history, culture and politics, European history, history of 'Great Power' involvement in the Middle East, genocide studies, history of ideas.

Teaching interests

Modern European (particularly German) history, nineteenth century colonialism, history of violence, war and genocide, comparative imperialism, historiography.

Topic coordinator

HIST7004 Germany's Histories, 1848-1945

HIST7050 Reading Imperialism: Texts and Theories of Empire

HIST7006 Making History: Current Directions in Historiography

HIST3003 Romantics and Revolutionaries: European Culture and History, 1789-1918.

HIST2016 Globalisation and World History

HIST2030 The Great Powers and the Origins of the Modern Middle East

HIST3006 Imperialism and its Discontents

HIST2009 Nazi Germany: Its Origins and Nature

Supervisory interests

European history

History, genocide and ethnic cleansing