Professor Matt Fitzpatrick

Matthew Flinders Professor

College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

+61 8 8201 2125

matthew.fitzpatrick@flinders.edu.au

Social Science South

GPO Box 2100, ADELAIDE, SA, 5001

Professor Fitzpatrick specialises in international history, in particular German and European history, as well as the history of European imperialism, German liberalism and nationalism. He is also interested in the comparative history of empires, and intellectual history. He is a current holder of an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship and his most recent monographs are The Kaiser and the Colonies: Monarchy in the Age of Empire and Purging the Empire: Mass Expulsions in Germany, 1871-1914.

Qualifications

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

Honours, awards and grants

2025-2028 - ARC Discovery Grant: 'Pacific Powers'

2024 - Royal Studies Best Book Prize

2024 - Alexander von Humboldt Residency Programme: Power and Knowledge

2022-2026 - ARC Future Fellowship: 'Strategic Friendship'

2018-2020 - ARC Discovery Grant: '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

President - History Council of South 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.

Teaching interests

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

Topic coordinator

HIST7004 Germany's Histories, 1848-1945

HIST1801 Europe from Napoleon to World War One.

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

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

HIST2009 Nazi Germany: Its Origins and Nature

HIST7006 Making History: Current Directions in Historiography

Professional engagement

President: History Council of South Australia

Series Editor: Bloomsbury Books, Modern German History

Editorial Board - Central European History

Secretary: Australasian Association for European History