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Associate Professor Andrew Bonnell

Associate Professor

School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
a.bonnell@uq.edu.au
+61 7 336 56333

Overview

Assoc. Prof’s Andrew Bonnell’s research interests include: Modern German and European history. German cultural and intellectual history in social and political context. History of German Social Democracy.

Assoc. Prof. Bonnell holds a BA (Hons) (Sydney), and a PhD (Sydney). He is currently Associate Professor in History at UQ.

His teaching areas include Modern German history, European intellectual history, European fascism and the radical right, Film and history and Nationalism.

Assoc. Prof. Bonnell’s current research projects include Robert Michels and the political discontents of modernity and aspects of the history of German Social Democracy.

He is also the editor (History), Australian Journal of Politics and History.

Qualifications

  • PhD, The University of Sydney
  • BA (Hons), The University of Sydney

Publications

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Supervision

  • The British and the French Foreign Legion during the Interwar Period: Myths and Realities

    Doctor Philosophy

  • The Great Chain of Feeing: Humans, Animals and Emotions in Eighteenth-Century England

    Doctor Philosophy

  • Radicalism in the rank-and-file shop committee and assembly movements in Australian trade unions from 1900-1990

    Master Philosophy

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Publications

Featured Publications

Book

Book Chapter

  • Circles of persecution in Aichinger’s Vienna

    Bonnell, Andrew G. (2021). Circles of persecution in Aichinger’s Vienna. Zwischen Abschied und Ankunft. Between departure and arrival. Ilse Aichinger, Helga Michie. (pp. 39-46) edited by Geoff Wilkes. Würzburg, Germany: Königshausen & Neumann.

  • Painting Queensland Red: Hugo Kunze, transnational print culture and propaganda for socialism

    Bonnell, Andrew G. (2021). Painting Queensland Red: Hugo Kunze, transnational print culture and propaganda for socialism. Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. (pp. 173-191) edited by Catherine Dewhirst and Richard Scully. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-67330-7_9

  • Social democrats and Germany’s war in South-West Africa, 1904–7: the view of the socialist press

    Bonnell, Andrew G. (2018). Social democrats and Germany’s war in South-West Africa, 1904–7: the view of the socialist press. Savage worlds: German encounters abroad, 1798-1914. (pp. 206-229) edited by Matthew P. Fitzpatrick and Peter Monteath. Manchester, United Kingdom: Manchester University Press. doi: 10.7765/9781526123411.00015

  • A ‘very valuable book’: Karl Marx and Appian

    Bonnell, Andrew G. (2015). A ‘very valuable book’: Karl Marx and Appian. Appian’s Roman History: Empire and Civil War. (pp. 15-21) edited by Kathryn Welch. Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom: The Classical Press of Wales. doi: 10.2307/j.ctt1ws7x7f.8

  • Editor's Preface

    Bonnell, Andrew G. (2015). Editor's Preface. The Grand Deception: Churchill and the Dardanelles. (pp. 1-4) edited by Andrew G. Bonnell. Newport, NSW, Australia: Big Sky Publishing.

  • Introduction

    Bonnell, Andrew G. and Vonhoff, Rebecca (2012). Introduction. Germans in Queensland: 150 years. (pp. 1-8) edited by Andrew G. Bonnell and Rebecca Vonhoff. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.

  • Missing links? the Queensland labour movement and German social democracy before 1914

    Bonnell, Andrew G. (2012). Missing links? the Queensland labour movement and German social democracy before 1914. Germans in Queensland: 150 years. (pp. 115-127) edited by Andrew Bonnell and Rebecca Vonhoff. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.

  • Introduction

    Bonnell, Andrew G. (2011). Introduction. An American Witness in Nazi Frankfurt The Diaries of Robert W. Heingartner, 1928-1937. (pp. 1-12) edited by Andrew G. Bonnell. Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang.

  • Stephen Roberts and the Nazi threat, 1938-39

    Bonnell, Andrew G. (2010). Stephen Roberts and the Nazi threat, 1938-39. National socialism in Oceania: A critical evaluation of its effect and aftermath. (pp. 185-199) edited by Emily Turner-Graham and Christine Winter. Frankfurt am Main ; New York: Peter Lang Publishing.

  • Reforming the Reich? Social democracy and the German state, 1890-1914

    Bonnell, A. G. (2000). Reforming the Reich? Social democracy and the German state, 1890-1914. The German Empire and Britain's Pacific Dominions, 1871-1919. Essays on the Role of Australia and New Zealand in World Politics in the Age of Imperialism. (pp. 395-414) edited by J. A. Moses and C. Pugsley. Claremont, California: Regina Books.

Journal Article

Conference Publication

  • German immigrants to Australia: multiple horizons and identities

    Bonnell, Andrew G. (2014). German immigrants to Australia: multiple horizons and identities. 3rd International Symposium on International Migration and Qiaoxiang Studies 2014, Jiangmen, China, 11-14 December, 2014. Jiangmen, China: Guangdong Qiaoxiang Cultural Research Center, Wuyi University.

  • From Saxony to South Brisbane: The German-Australian socialist Hugo Kunze

    Bonnell, Andrew G. (2011). From Saxony to South Brisbane: The German-Australian socialist Hugo Kunze. 12th Biennial National Labour History Conference, Canberra, Australia, 15-17 September 2011. Canberra, Australia: Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Canberra Region Branch and National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.

  • Reds In The Ranks: Social Democrats In The Kaiser's Army

    Bonnell, A. G. (2007). Reds In The Ranks: Social Democrats In The Kaiser's Army. Australasian Association For European History Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 11-15 July, 2005. Unley, South Australia: Australian Humanities Press.

  • Australian Journal of Politics and History: Foreword

    Bonnell, Andrew G. (2004). Australian Journal of Politics and History: Foreword.

  • Robert Michels and the intellectual origins of Fascism

    Bonnell, A. G. (2004). Robert Michels and the intellectual origins of Fascism. Fourteenth Biennial Conference of the Australian Association for European History, Brisbane Australia, July 2003. South Australia: Australian Humanities.

  • Did they read Marx? German social democratic workers and Marx reception before 1914

    Bonnell, A. G. (2003). Did they read Marx? German social democratic workers and Marx reception before 1914. Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the AAEH, Auckland, July 2001. South Australia: Australian Humanities Press.

  • Shylock in the 'Third Reich'

    Bonnell, A. G. (2000). Shylock in the 'Third Reich'. Twelfth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association for European History, University of Western Australia, Perth, 5-9 July 1999. Canberra: Southern Highlands Publishers.

Edited Outputs

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • The British and the French Foreign Legion during the Interwar Period: Myths and Realities

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • The Great Chain of Feeing: Humans, Animals and Emotions in Eighteenth-Century England

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Radicalism in the rank-and-file shop committee and assembly movements in Australian trade unions from 1900-1990

    Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Resistance to Learning: How the British Army Kept Losing but Still Won the Napoleonic Wars

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • Masculinity and the Making of a Nation: Constructions of Indigenous Australian Hyper-Masculinity in 19th Century Queensland

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • From the oder and the rhine: Germans in South Australia, 1838-1914

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Following the post-Second World War migration of Soviet displaced persons from Europe to Australia: the cultural and artistic traditions of Ukrainians and Russian diaspora, in personal and public life

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Olgem eestlased, aga saagem ka eurooplasteks: Estonia's experience of European Integration.

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • From Revolutionary Hopes to Shattered Dreams: the far left in Australia, 1918-1925

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Konigsberg / Kaliningrad - a contested site of memore

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • "Spiritual Hungary": Self-Representation, National Heritage, and Identity at the Hungarian Australian Cultural Festivals (1969-2017)

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • The Bulgarian participation in the Brest-Litovsk Treaty negotiations

    Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • A History of the African Diaspora in China (1949-2021): A Challenge to China's Multiculturalism

    Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor

    Other advisors:

Completed Supervision

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