Academy of Social Sciences in Australia

Year elected: 2008
Panel: C
Discipline: History

Robert Aldrich is Professor of European History and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Sydney. He carries out research and teaches in fields of French history, the history of colonialism and imperialism, and the history of sexuality. Recent publications include Vestiges of the Colonial Empire in France: Monuments, Museums and Colonial Memories (2005) and Colonialism and Homosexuality (2003), and as editor, The Age of Empires (2007) and Gay Life and Culture: A World History (2006). He is a member of the advisory board of the journal Outre-Mers, and has held fellowships at the Camargo Foundation and the Columbia University Institute for Scholars in France. He was decorated with the Ordre des Palmes Académiques in 2002 for 'services to French culture'. His current research concerns regionalism, nationalism and imperialism in modern France, and he is also writing a commissioned volume on Gay Lives in History.

• Robert Aldrich (2007) Colonial Man, 1870-1962, In French Masculinities: History, Culture and Politics. Christopher E Forth and Bertrand Taithe (eds.). London: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Robert Aldrich (Editor) (2007) The Age of Empires. London: Thames and Hudson.
• Robert Aldrich (Editor) (2006) Gay Life and Culture: A World History. London: Thames and Hudson.
• Robert Aldrich (2005) Vestiges of the Colonial Empire in France: Monuments, Museums and Colonial Memories. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Robert Aldrich (2003) Colonialism and Homosexuality. London: Routledge.

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