Professor, Director of the Centre for the Study of Violence, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle
Philip Dwyer is Professor of History and the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Violence at the University of Newcastle. He has published widely on the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras, including a three-volume biography of Napoleon. He is the general editor of a four volume Cambridge World History of Violence, and co-editor of the Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars. He is currently engaged in writing a global history of violence.
Experience
–present
Professor, Director of the Centre for the History of Violence, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle
2012–present
Director, Centre for the History of Violence, University of Newcastle
Education
1993
University of Western Australia, PhD
1989
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, Diplome d'Etudes Approprondies
1988
Universite de la Sorbonne, Paris IV, Maîtrise
1987
Universite de la Sorbonne, Paris IV, Licence
1983
Murdoch University, Bachelor of Arts
Publications
2013
Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power, 1799-1815 , London: Bloomsbury, and New Haven: Yale University Press
2012
Theatres of Violence: Massacre, Mass Killing and Atrocity Throughout History, New York: Berghahn
2007
Napoleon: The Path to Power, 1761-1799, London: Bloomsbury
Grants and Contracts
2011
Massacre and Colonization, 1780-1820
Role:
Chief Investigator
Funding Source:
Australian Research Council
2010
Napoleon
Role:
Writer in Residence, New York
Funding Source:
Australia Council for the Arts
2008
Veteran culture and the military memoirs of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Role:
Chief Investigator
Funding Source:
Australian Research Council
Research Areas
Historical Studies (2103)
History And Archaeology Not Elsewhere Classified (219999)
Political Science Not Elsewhere Classified (160699)