Robert Aldrich
Emeritus Professor Robert Aldrich
- Post Nominals: Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques, FAHA, FASSA, FRHistS
- Fellow Type: Fellow
- Elected to the Academy: 2008
- Section(s): History
Biography
Robert Aldrich is Professor Emeritus of European History at the University of Sydney, where he taught from 1981 to 2021. His areas of research include colonial history (especially of the French British empires), the history of modern monarchy, and gay history. His most recent works include Global Royal Families: Cultures of Transnational Monarchy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (edited with Cindy McCreery and Falko Schnicke) (2024), The Colonial World: A History of European Empires, 1780s to the Present (co-authored with Andreas Stucki) (2023), The Ends of Empire: The Last Colonies Revisited (co-authored with John Connell), and three co-edited volumes with Cindy McCreery: Monarchy and Decolonisation in Asia (2020), Royals on Tour: Politics, Pageantry and Colonialism (2018) and Crowns and Colonies: European Monarchies and Overseas Empires (2016). Among his monographs are Banished Potentates: Dethroning and Exiling Indigenous Monarchs under British and French Colonial Rule, 1815-1955 (2018), Cultural Encounters and Homoeroticism in Sri Lanka: Sex and Serendipity (2014), Vestiges of the Colonial Empire in France: Monuments, Museums and Colonial Memories (2005) and Colonialism and Homosexuality (2003), as well as earlier works. Forthcoming is a co-edited volume in the Bloomsbury Cultural History of Monarchy.
He is currently an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London. He is also chair of the Advisory Board of the Institute for the Study of French-Australian Relations.
By Robert Aldrich
France proposes statehood for New Caledonia: will it work?
Emeritus Professor Robert Aldrich FAHA FASSA FRHistS, scholar of modern colonial history and the French overseas empire, considers the opportunities, and challenges, of both independence and a ‘negotiated dependency’ for New Caledonia.