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 Deputy 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


Executive Committee Member:  Andrew Scott

Dr Andrew Scott is Senior Lecturer in the School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning at RMIT University.  He is the author of three books,  four book chapters, five refereed journal articles or conference papers, and numerous newspaper articles about Australian, British and European politics.  He was a Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History at Södertörn University College, Stockholm, Sweden in 2007. He has also presented papers to international academic conferences in Britain, Germany and Portugal in recent years on social democracy and comparative politics.  He is enquiring into, and advocating, the lessons for Australia from the continuing policy achievements of Sweden and other nations of Nordic Europe including through their: reduction of income and wealth inequalities, reduction of child poverty, democratising of access to public education, promotion of more fulfilling and effective work lives, adoption of more family-friendly workplace arrangements and provision of comprehensive paid parental leave.

E-mail address: andrew.scott@rmit.edu.au