Overview
Background
Assoc. Prof’s Andrew Bonnell’s research interests include: Modern German and European history. German cultural and intellectual history in social and political context. History of German Social Democracy.
Assoc. Prof. Bonnell holds a BA (Hons) (Sydney), and a PhD (Sydney). He is currently Associate Professor in History at UQ.
His teaching areas include Modern German history, European intellectual history, European fascism and the radical right, Film and history and Nationalism.
Assoc. Prof. Bonnell’s current research projects include Robert Michels and the political discontents of modernity and aspects of the history of German Social Democracy.
He is also the editor (History), Australian Journal of Politics and History.
Availability
- Professor Andrew Bonnell is:
- Available for supervision
- Media expert
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor (Honours) of Arts, University of Sydney
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Sydney
Works
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Featured
2015
Journal Article
“New Histories of the Origins of the First World War: What Happened to the ‘Primacy of Domestic Politics?’”
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2015). “New Histories of the Origins of the First World War: What Happened to the ‘Primacy of Domestic Politics?’”. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 61 (1), 121-127. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12090
Featured
2014
Journal Article
Stephen Roberts as a commentator on fascism and the road to war in Europe
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2014). Stephen Roberts as a commentator on fascism and the road to war in Europe. History Australia, 11 (3), 9-30. doi: 10.1080/14490854.2014.11668529
Featured
2014
Journal Article
Explaining suicide in the Imperial German Army
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2014). Explaining suicide in the Imperial German Army. German Studies Review, 37 (2), 275-295. doi: 10.1353/gsr.2014.0055
Featured
2012
Book
Germans in Queensland: 150 years
Andrew G. Bonnell and Rebecca Vonhoff eds. (2012). Germans in Queensland: 150 years. Germanica Pacifica, Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Peter Lang. doi: 10.3726/978-3-653-02741-9
Featured
2011
Book
An American witness in Nazi Frankfurt: The diaries of Robert W. Heingartner, 1928-1937
Andrew G. Bonnell ed. (2011). An American witness in Nazi Frankfurt: The diaries of Robert W. Heingartner, 1928-1937. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang.
Featured
2008
Book
Shylock in Germany: Antisemitism and the German Theatre from The Enlightenment to the Nazis
Bonnell, A. G. (2008). Shylock in Germany: Antisemitism and the German Theatre from The Enlightenment to the Nazis. United Kingdom, United States: Tauris Academic Studies.
Featured
2005
Book
The People's Stage in Imperial Germany: Social Democracy and Culture 1890-1914
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2005). The People's Stage in Imperial Germany: Social Democracy and Culture 1890-1914. London, England: Tauris Academic Studies.
2025
Journal Article
Review of Lino Schneider-Bertenburg, 1873. Der Gründerkrach und die Krisenwahrnehmung der deutschen Sozialdemokratie
Bonnell, Andrew (2025). Review of Lino Schneider-Bertenburg, 1873. Der Gründerkrach und die Krisenwahrnehmung der deutschen Sozialdemokratie. Historische Zeitschrift, 321 (3), 778-780. doi: 10.1515/hzhz-2025-1332
2025
Journal Article
Review of Zwischen Herkunft und Zukunft: “Heimat” in der Sozialdemokratie vom späten Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik. By Anna Strommenger. Kritische Studien zur Geschichtswissenschaft, volume 250. Edited by Gunilla Budde et al. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2023. Pp. 382.
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2025). Review of Zwischen Herkunft und Zukunft: “Heimat” in der Sozialdemokratie vom späten Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik. By Anna Strommenger. Kritische Studien zur Geschichtswissenschaft, volume 250. Edited by Gunilla Budde et al. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2023. Pp. 382. . Journal of Modern History, 97 (4), 1016-1018. doi: 10.1086/738063
2025
Journal Article
Ghosts of dictatorships past: dictators don’t govern alone, which helps explain what happens once they’ve gone
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2025, 07 04). Ghosts of dictatorships past: dictators don’t govern alone, which helps explain what happens once they’ve gone
2025
Journal Article
Review of Patrick Eiden-Offe, The Poetry of Class: Romantic Anti-Capitalism and the Invention of the Proletariat
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2025). Review of Patrick Eiden-Offe, The Poetry of Class: Romantic Anti-Capitalism and the Invention of the Proletariat. H-Socialisms, H-Net Reviews.
2025
Journal Article
German social democracy and Anglo-German relations: the case of the Boer War
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2025). German social democracy and Anglo-German relations: the case of the Boer War. German History, 43 (2), 181-199. doi: 10.1093/gerhis/ghaf027
2025
Book
Revolutions in modern German history
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2025). Revolutions in modern German history. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing.
2025
Journal Article
Review of Living the German Revolution 1918-19: expectations, experiences, responses
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2025). Review of Living the German Revolution 1918-19: expectations, experiences, responses. European History Quarterly, 55 (2), 337-339. doi: 10.1177/02656914251325052c
2025
Journal Article
Review of Red secularism: socialism and secularism culture in Germany 1890 to 1933
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2025). Review of Red secularism: socialism and secularism culture in Germany 1890 to 1933. European History Quarterly, 55 (2), 364-365. doi: 10.1177/02656914251325052q
2025
Journal Article
Reflections on writing the history of revolutions
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2025). Reflections on writing the history of revolutions. Q-History. The Journal of the Queensland History Teachers’ Association, 2025, 60-67.
2024
Journal Article
Review of Andrew Saniga and Robert Freestone (eds) Campus: Building Modern Australian Universities
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2024). Review of Andrew Saniga and Robert Freestone (eds) Campus: Building Modern Australian Universities. Australian Policy and History.
2024
Journal Article
John A. Moses (1930–2024)
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2024). John A. Moses (1930–2024). Australian Journal of Politics & History, 71 (4), 851-855. doi: 10.1111/ajph.13025
2024
Journal Article
Review of Mark Jones, 1923. The Crisis of German Democracy in the Year of Hitler’s Putsch
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2024). Review of Mark Jones, 1923. The Crisis of German Democracy in the Year of Hitler’s Putsch. Australian Outlook.
2024
Journal Article
German Social Democrats in July 1914: The Antiwar Protests Reconsidered
Bonnell, Andrew G. (2024). German Social Democrats in July 1914: The Antiwar Protests Reconsidered. Bulletin of the German Historical Institute (74), 119-141.
Supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Title: Radical rank-And-file workers committees and assemblies in three Australian and one Italian trade union from 1960-1980
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Geoff Ginn
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Doctor Philosophy
The Cracow Union (alias Russian Political Prisoners and Exiles Relief Committees) and the Russian Revolution 1914-1918
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
Russian and Ukrainian diaspora in Australia: cultural memory, perceptions of identity
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Geoff Ginn
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Doctor Philosophy
Masculinity and the Making of a Nation: Constructions of Indigenous Australian Hyper-Masculinity in 19th Century Queensland
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
From the oder and the rhine: Germans in South Australia, 1838-1914
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Geoff Ginn
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Doctor Philosophy
Global Entanglements and Manifestations of Thai Popular Nationalism, 1914-1983
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Patrick Jory
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Master Philosophy
German Lutheran Leadership in Southeast Queensland During World War 1
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Geoff Ginn
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Doctor Philosophy
A History of the African Diaspora in China, 1949-2019
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Patrick Jory
Completed supervision
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2025
Doctor Philosophy
From Revolutionary Hopes to Shattered Dreams: the Socialist Movement in Australia, 1918-1925
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Geoff Ginn
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2025
Doctor Philosophy
Performing the Nation: Practices of Identity Maintenance in the Australian-Hugarian Diaspora
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Geoff Ginn
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2025
Doctor Philosophy
Olgem eestlased, aga saagem ka eurooplasteks: Estonia's experience of European Integration
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Frank Mols
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
The Great Chain of Feeing: Humans, Animals and Emotions in Eighteenth-Century England
Principal Advisor
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2024
Master Philosophy
Radicalism in the rank-and-file shop committee and assembly movements in three Australian trade unions from 1930-1960
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Geoff Ginn
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
Resistance to Learning: How the British Army Kept Losing but Still Won the Napoleonic Wars
Principal Advisor
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
The British and the French Foreign Legion during the Interwar Period: Myths and Realities
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Geoff Ginn
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
Looking to the East? German business involvement in the economic exploitation of the occupied Soviet Union, and the dynamics of the relationship between business and the Reich, (1939-43).
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Geoff Ginn
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
Breaking Hearts and Minds: Germany, National Socialism, and British Subversive Propaganda in the Second World War
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Geoff Ginn
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
'Murtherous-minded strumpets' and 'their wicked Companions quick with Child' at the early modern Home Circuit (1576-1659)
Principal Advisor
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2015
Master Philosophy
'No troops but the British': British national identity and the Battle for Waterloo
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Geoff Ginn
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2015
Doctor Philosophy
Politics of Forgetting: New Zealand-Greek Wartime Relationship
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Clive Moore
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2012
Doctor Philosophy
Spoken through the Press: German-Australian identity and influence during the Kaiserreich
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Clive Moore
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2011
Doctor Philosophy
'For the British soldier is keenly sensitive to honour': Military History, Heroism and British Identities in the Works of William Napier
Principal Advisor
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2009
Doctor Philosophy
James V. Forrestal as cold war policymaker: A re-assessment
Principal Advisor
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2007
Doctor Philosophy
THE GRAND DECEPTION; WINSTON CHURCHILL'S ROLE IN THE DARDANELLES DISASTER
Principal Advisor
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2007
Doctor Philosophy
A SPECIAL GERMAN RESPONSIBILITY: THE NAZI PAST AND THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE GERMAN GREENS, 1980-2004
Principal Advisor
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2007
Doctor Philosophy
WOMEN OF THE HUNGER YEARS: SURVIVING THE NORMALISATION OF AMERICAN-OCCUPIED NUREMBERG, 1945-1948
Principal Advisor
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2007
Doctor Philosophy
FROM HOPE... TO HOPE: STORY OF THE AUSTRALIAN LEAGUE OF NATIONS UNION, FEATURING THE VICTORIAN BRANCH, 1921-1945
Principal Advisor
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2006
Doctor Philosophy
DEFINING THE ENEMY: A STUDY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL RHETORIC
Principal Advisor
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2005
Master Philosophy
VICTIMS AND EXECUTIONS: AMERICAN POLITICAL DISCOURSES ON THE HOLOCAUST FROM LIBERATION TO BITBURG
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
ANARCHISM AS COMMUNITARIAN POLITICAL ECONOMY: A NEGLECTED TRADITION
Principal Advisor
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Doctor Philosophy
SCIENTISTS IN CONFLICT: HANS BETHE, EDWARD TELLER AND THE SHAPING OF UNITED STATES NUCLEAR WEAPONS POLICY, 1945 - 1972
Principal Advisor
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2021
Doctor Philosophy
Business Strategies to Overcome Crises after Relocation by Fujian and Zhejiang Capitalists at War: Cases from Yu Mingyu, Liu Hongsheng, and Tan Kah Kee (1937-1949)
Associate Advisor
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Dwelling in Shenzhen: Development of Living Environment from 1979 to 2018
Associate Advisor
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Imperialism and the evolution of central-provincial relations in late Qing China: Zhang Zhidong in Jiangsu and Hubei
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Patrick Jory
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2019
Doctor Philosophy
Zur Berichterstattung der Bildzeitung über die Rote Armee Fraktion von 1970-1977: Eine kritische Inhalts- und Diskursanalyse
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Stephan Atzert
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2018
Doctor Philosophy
The Rise of Hong Kong Identity and Political Mobilisations vis-a-vis China, 1949-1997
Associate Advisor
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2017
Master Philosophy
Under the Wrath of God: Emotional Communities of Plague in Early Modern England, 1631-1638
Associate Advisor
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2017
Doctor Philosophy
The Never-Ending War: Lives of Chinese National Army Soldiers, 1937 - 1987
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Patrick Jory
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2017
Doctor Philosophy
Urban Development and Everyday life of Ordinary Labours in Wartime Chongqing
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Patrick Jory
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2015
Master Philosophy
I mourn for them I loved: Emotions and the material culture of love and loss in eighteenth-century England
Associate Advisor
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2014
Master Philosophy
'God is pleased to be called a man of warre': Religious Violence in the English Civil War, 1642-1646
Associate Advisor
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2014
Doctor Philosophy
"Berlin from Behind": a History of "Gay" Travel to Inter-War Berlin
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Clive Moore
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2014
Master Philosophy
Casting a `Cold Light¿? Psychical Research and the Haunting of Popular Culture in Britain, 1918-1948
Joint Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Geoff Ginn
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2013
Doctor Philosophy
Australian Chinese Legislative Recruitment, Political Incorporation and Representation in the Global Moment (1973-2012)
Associate Advisor
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2012
Doctor Philosophy
Christian Identity and Business Success: Lin Zifeng (1892-1971) and his Public Career in Hong Kong
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Patrick Jory
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2010
Doctor Philosophy
Bring the Bombs out of the Basement:The United States, the NPT, and the sui generis states of India, Pakistan and Israel, 1961-1975.
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Martin Crotty
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2010
Doctor Philosophy
Transitional justice and the politics of pragmatism: addressing historical injustices and atrocities through truth commissions - perspectives from the South African TRC and the East Timorese CAVR
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Robert Elson
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2009
Doctor Philosophy
Agitators and Patriots: Cultural and Political Identity in Queensland¿s Spanish Communities, 1900-1975
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Clive Moore
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2006
Doctor Philosophy
THE IMPACT OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM ON GERMAN NATIONALS IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW GUINEA 1932-1947
Associate Advisor
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2005
Doctor Philosophy
ON THE BORDERS OF SCIENCE: PSYCHICAL RESEARCH AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY IN GERMANY, C.1870-1939
Associate Advisor
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Master Philosophy
TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE AND SOUTH AFRICA: JUS AD BELLUM, JUS IN BELLO AND THE PROMOTION OF NATIONAL UNITY AND RECONCILIATION ACT (34) 1995
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Emeritus Professor Robert Elson
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- History - Europe
- History - Germany
- Politics - European
- Social democracy - Germany
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