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DIRECTOR

Professor Emeritus Naren Chitty AM

HONORARY PROFESSORS

Professor The Hon. Gareth Evans AC, QC

Professor Murray Green

Professor The Hon. John Howard OM, AC

Professor Maurice Newman AC

Professor Emeritus Joseph S. Nye Jr.

VISITING PROFESSORS

Professor Daniel Druckman

Eminent Scholar (March 2013 - March 2015)

Research projects: (1) civil war, durable peace, negotiation, procedural justice, distributive justice; (2) Explaining international negotiating behavior: Adherence to justice principles in arms control, trade and environmental negotiations. Funded by Swedish Research Council.
Department of Public and International Affairs, George Mason University.

Professor Gary Kreps

Endeavour Executive Fellow (04 February 2014 - 28 February 2014)

Research: Public health
George Mason University

Professor Daniel Lee

Visiting Professor (13 January 2015 - 135 February 2015)

Research: Individual rights, civic virtue and the common good
Augustana Center for the Study of Ethics, Augustana College

Professor Zhang Yuqiang

Visiting Professor (September 2013 - September 2014)

Research Project: Australia-China Soft Power Relations. Funded by China Scholarship Council.
Communication University of China

INTERNAL AFFILIATES

Senior Lecturer Dalbir Ahlawat

Senior Museum Curator Rhonda Davis

Associate Professor Julian Droogan

Test Library Manager Gina Hammond

Associate Dean Maryam Khaled

Post-doctoral Research Fellow Eva Schmidt

Researcher Ellie Wang

EXTERNAL AFFILIATES

Dr. Alison Broinowski AM

Researcher, College of Asia and Pacific, ANU, ACT

Professor Caitlin Byrne

PVC (Business), Griffith University

Professor Jocelyn Chey

Australia-China Institute for Art and Culture, Western Sydney University

Dr. Natalia Grincheva

Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore

Dr. Ji Li

Former Lecturer, Macquarie University; presently with the New South Wales state government

Katherina McGrath

Research Associate, Friedrich Schiller University

Dr. Paul Mazaros

Former Lecturer in Museum Studies, Macquarie University

Associate Professor Maggie Ying Jiang

Faculty of Arts, University of Western Sydney

Professor Nicholas Jase

Dean's Unit, School of Humanities & Communication Arts, Western Sydney University

Dr. Li Mei

Teaches at Sydney University; formerly Lectured at Macquarie University

Dr. Hendrik Ohnesorge

Managing Director, Center for Global Studies; Research Fellow, University of Bonn.

Professor Gary Rawnsley

Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences & Professor of Public Diplomacy
School of International Studies, University of Nottingham-Ningbo

Professor Emeritus Philip Seib

Professor Emeritus of Journalism and Public Diplomacy at University of Southern California

Former Director Museum Studies Andrew Simpson

Vice President, UMAC University Museums and Collections, an International Committee of ICOM (International Council of Museums). 5 Sep 2019 → 5 Sep 2022

Professor Daya Thussu

Professor, Department of Journalism, Hong Kong Baptist University

VISITING SCHOLARS

Song Qi

Visiting Scholar (June - October 2012 . Completed)

Research project: "Chinese soft power development through Confucius Institutes"
Postgraduate student, Communication University of China, Beijing.

Malene Mortensen

Visiting Scholar (August - December 2013)

Research project: 'How are Nollywood films viewed by members of the African diaspora in Sydney'?
Postgraduate student, Department of Political Science, University of Denmark, Copenhagen

Eleonore Coeuret

Visiting Scholar (April - June-2014)

Research Project: Articulation between Soft Power, Whale Protection & International Law
Aix-Marseille University, Law School

PhDs on soft power-related topics (completed or under way)

Chenjun Wang (Ph.D. candidate) - Interrogating Resilience and Soft Power: Chinese digital diaspora in Australia (2021 - ).
Rong Han (Ph.D. Candidate) - The Development and Projection of Chinese Soft Power in the United Nations Arena. Han Rong's MRes topic was China at the United Nations: Comparing Chinese & U.S. media outcomes of President Xi Jinping's maiden U.N. speech.
Dr. Zheng Li (PhD completed in 2020) - The internal and external Soft Power dimensions of the Chinese government's new governance approach in the age of noöpolitik.
Dr. Wasin Praditsilp (PhD completed in 2019) - Crafting soft power in Thailand.
Dr. Li Mei (Phd completed in 2017) - Delivering Chinese Voices to Australian Audiences: CCTV's Search for congruence
between its frames and those of audiences.
Dr. Twediana Hapsari (PhD completed in 2017) - Audience segmentation Indonesian Muslim society related to Australian issues.
Dr. Janet Xue (PhD completed in 2016) - A place to hide: Internet governance on privacy issues on social media sites.
Dr. Hongyu Ye (PhD completed in 2014) - A comparison of developments in Chinese and Australian public diplomacy in the 21st Century.
Dr. Dianlin Huang (PhD completed in 2012) - Framing migrant workers: News media and discursive construction of citizenship in transitional China.
Dr. Li Ji (PhD completed in 2012) - Image and cooperation in the climate change context: Australia frames China as an environmental actor.
Dr.Leah Li (PhD completed in 2011) - Reading the contemporary giant: The Australian media representation of China based on the ABC's current affair program in the 21st Century.
Dr. Annekaryn Tiele (PhD completed in 2011) - News factors in international news flow: An analysis of the global foreign press coverage.
Dr. Longqing Wang (PhD completed in 2011) - Journalists, media diplomacy and media-broker diplomacy in relations between Mainland China and Taiwan from 1987 - 2009.

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