Vice-president Professor Peter Morgan, University of Sydney

Professor Peter Morgan is Director of the European Studies program at the University of Sydney.
His recent publications include Ismail Kadare: The Writer and the Dictatorship 1957-1990 (Oxford: Legenda, 2010) and "'Your Story is Now My Story': The Ethics of Narration in Grass and Sebald." Monatshefte Vol. 101, no. 2 (2009): 86-106. His current research interests include Balkan post-communism, European Studies and Literature and National Identity.

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Co-Editor - Australian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies :
Dr. Matt Killingsworth, University of Tasmania

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

Membership Secretary: Margherita Matera, PhD student from the University of Melbourne

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

Treasurer:Dr. Simone Battiston, Swinburne University of Technology

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. H e 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

Secretary:Luigi Belmonte, Australian Catholic University

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

CESAA Essay Competition Secretary : Evan Thompson, PhD student Monash University
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Assistant Editor of the ANZJES : Assoc. Professor Michael Longo, Victoria University

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

General Members of the Committee:

Professor Bruce Wilson, Director of the RMIT EU Centre

Professor Bruce Wilson is Director of the European Union Centre at RMIT University, and Co-Director of the PASCAL International. In these roles, Bruce helps to build linkages between Australia and Europe, and to link an international network of researchers and policy makers with city and regional governments in policy formation related to social and economic policy, lifelong learning and environment.

Assoc. Prof. Stephen Alomes (Adjunct Professor Deakin University)

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

Monique Breaz, Masters Research Student, Monash University
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