Dr Ian Coller
ARC Postdoctoral Fellow
- Telephone:
- (+61 3) 8344 4658
- Email:
- icoller@unimelb.edu.au
- Fax:
- (+61 3) 8344 7894
- Location:
- Room 346 East
History, John Medley Building
The University of Melbourne VIC 3010
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Biography
Dr Ian Coller specializes in the history of cosmopolitanism and diversity. He completed his doctorate at the University of Melbourne on the Arab history of early nineteenth-century France, while continuing his studies in Arabic language. He is closely involved in the University’s initiative for “Conflict, Violence and Diaspora Populations” which seeks to encourage dialogue between communities and promote mutual understanding of their histories.
Research
Ian is currently undertaking a four year research project, funded by the Australian Research Council, which investigates the transformations of European identity in the trading communities of the Ottoman Empire during the eighteenth century. This project aims to open up the question of cultural practice as a key dimension for the analysis of identities, and the conflicts they generate.
He is working on a book entitled Arab France: The First French Arab Community 1801-1831.
Ian has taught in a wide range of areas including “Holocaust and Genocide” and “The History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict,” as well as modern French and European history. He is developing a new first-year subject for 2008, “The Making of the Global World, 1750-2001”.
His wider research interests include cosmopolitanism and diversity in past and present, the historical construction of identities, modern France, and the exchanges between Europe and the Muslim world in the modern era.
Publications
- Coller, I., “Arab France: Mobility and Community in Early Nineteenth Century Paris and Marseille”, French Historical Studies, Special Issue: “Mobility in French History” 28 (2006): 433-456
- Coller, I., “Pratiques de voyage et mobilités arabes dans la France de l’Empire et de la Restauration”, in Nicolas Bourguinat ed. Voyager en Europe du Consulat aux Restaurations: Contraintes nationales et tentations cosmopolites, forthcoming 2006
- Coller, I., “Égypte-sur-Seine”, French History and Civilization 1 (2005): 206-214
- Coller, I., “Paris Unrest (A doctoral student's perspective from the trenches of banlieue research)”, November 2006, History News Network, George Mason University, online at http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/18062.html