Brett Bowden
Brett Bowden is Professor of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry at Western Sydney University, Australia and an international Mercator Fellow in the DFG Research Training Group based at TU Darmstadt and Goethe University Frankfurt. He is an elected fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK) and the Royal Society of New South Wales. Key publications include the monographs The Empire of Civilization: The Evolution of an Imperial Idea (Chicago UP), Civilization and War (Edward Elgar), The Strange Persistence of Universal History in Political Thought (Palgrave), Direct Hit: The Bombing of Darwin Post Office (Rosenberg), and the 4-volume edited collection Civilization: Critical Concepts (Routledge). He has co-edited volumes on international law (Cambridge UP) and international political economy (Routledge), and served as Associate Editor for the second edition of the 6-volume Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History, edited by William H. McNeill. Brett has published more than fifty scholarly articles and book chapters and has been a regular commentator in print and electronic media. His research monographs have been awarded the Norbert Elias Prize, the APSA Crisp Prize, and the GW Symes Award. Brett is the recipient of a Distinguished Alumni Award from Flinders University of South Australia for his contributions to scholarship and the wider community.
