Vice-president and ANJES Co-editor: Matt Killingsworth
Dr Matt Killingsworth is an associate lecturer in International Relations at La Trobe University, Australia and Honorary Research Fellow at the Contemporary Europe Research Centre, the University of Melbourne, Australia. Matt has published on civil society in Communist Central and Eastern Europe and Polish and Czech experiences with lustration.
Email: m.killingsworth@latrobe.edu.au

Secretary: Luigi Belmonte
Luigi completed the Master of Business (International Business) in 2008. Currently he is a tutor in International Business and European studies at Swinburne University of Technology, and also teaches International Business at Swinburne TAFE.
Email: lbelmonte@swin.edu.au

Treasurer: Simone Battiston
Dr. Simone Battiston is Cassamarca lecturer in Italian at Swinburne University of Technology. He completed his PhD in Italian Migration Studies at La Trobe University. He has been published widely in the area of Italian expatriate voting. His research interests also include the migrant political and socio-economic contribution to post-war Australia, the relation in Australia between migration and trade, and Italian-Australian community history.
Email: sbattiston@swin.edu.au

Membership Secretary: Margherita Matera
Margherita Matera is currently undertaking a PhD in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Her thesis is looking at how military aspects of the European Unions Security and Defence Policy has contributed to the EUs power and influence as a regional and international actor.
Email: m.matera@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

Publicity and Web Liaison Officer: Gregoria Manzin
Dr Gregoria Manzin is lecturer and convener of Italian Studies at Swinburne University of Technology. She completed her PhD in 2008 at the University of Melbourne. In her thesis she explored questions of identity emerging from the cession of the former Italian provinces of Istria and Dalmatia to ex-Yugoslavia in 1947. Gregoria has published in the field of border literature, identity and translation.
Email: gmanzin@swin.edu.au

Essay Competition Co-ordinator: Leigh Howard
Leigh Howard is the student representative to the CESAA board and in charge of the annual CESAA essay competition. Leigh is a previous winner of the CESAA competition (undergraduate category) and also winner of the IUEU Centre Essay Competition. Most recently he attended the National Europe Centre’s European Studies Summer School on full scholarship. Leigh is editor-in-chief of youth journal ‘Perspective’, a journal which seeks to publish the innovative ideas of people under 25 years of age. Leigh studies a double undergraduate degree of Law and International Relations at LaTrobe University. He works part time as a paralegal at Clayton Utz Lawyers and volunteers weekly at Fitzroy Legal Service, Victoria’s oldest legal aid provider.
Email: lr2howard@students.latrobe.edu.au

ANZJES Co-editor: Matt Harvey
Dr Matt Harvey is a Lecturer at Victoria Law School, Victoria University. Matt gained his PhD from Monash University in 2004 for his thesis "Constituting a Commonwealth for Europe and Beyond"; in 2008, with Michael Longo, he published "European Union Law: An Australian View" (LexisNexis). He teaches and researches EU law at Victoria University and is a member and former Associate Director of the Monash European & EU Centre. He is a former editor of the CESAA Review and a founding co-editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies.
Email: Matt.Harvey@vu.edu.au

ANZJES Co-editor: Michael Longo
Michael Longo is a senior lecturer in law at Swinburne University of Technology. He completed his PhD in 2003 at The University of Melbourne. His topic was the constitutional development of the European Union, which he examined from the perspectives of law and political science. Michael has published on issues relating to EU law and politics.
Email: mlongo@swin.edu.au

Executive Committee Member: Stephen Alomes
Associate Professor Stephen Alomes teaches Australian Studies at Deakin University, Burwood and Geelong. He has always approached Australian Studies in its international context and has published longer and shorter articles on Australian populism (with European comparisons), Australia and Europe (1982), a comparison of French and Australian images of each other (1984) and a short piece on two bicentennials. A committee member of the Institute for the Study of French Australian Relations, he has also edited two collections (A Changing France in a Changing World, 1994 and French Worlds Pacific Worlds, 1998).

His edited collection on the social and cultural impact of globalisation, Islands in the Stream: Australia and Japan Face Globalisation, Maribyrnong Press, Hawthorn, 2005 - see www.maribyrnongpress.com.au ($24 + postage) raises general questions about social and cultural impacts of globalisation and comparative studies. It also carries his study of Halloween in France, Australia and Japan. His current research into nationalism and populism, Australian expatriates/diaspora, including Paris, and popular culture - all in the context of globalisation - has implicit and explicit European connections and contexts.
Email: stephen.alomes@deakin.edu.au