Prof Koen Stapelbroek ~ Head, Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS)

I am Professor of Humanities at the College of Arts, Society and Education.

With a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge (2004), my main background is in political thought and intellectual history. Over the years my interests have branched out from studying European texts and topics to more multi-disciplinary approaches to global changes and their local manifestations. I am looking forward to developing research as well as teaching that places social, cultural, economic and political change in North Queensland from the eighteenth century onwards in wider perspectives on regional (Indo-Pacific), tropical and global development.

In general, my teaching and research focus on the history of politics, global aspects of political economy and trade, as well as their legal, cultural and institutional dynamics. More specifically, I am interested in institutions of trade, such as free ports and commercial treaties, the history of the idea of the state and the history of international organisations.

I am available for supervision on a broad array of topics across history and with links to politics and the social sciences. Feel free to contact me!

Until 2022 I was an Associate Professor of the History of Political Theory at the School of Social and Behavioural Sciences at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Alongside my position in Rotterdam I have, most recently, been an Academy of Finland Fellow at Helsinki University, where I created a Centre for Intellectual History, a Visiting Professor at Ca’ Foscari Venice, Visiting Professor at Macquarie University and Research Fellow at the Kathleen Fitzpatrick ARC Laureate Research Program in International History at the University of Sydney.

See also, a description of my current projects, an overview of my books and other publications.

Teaching

• HI1001: A Time Traveller's Guide to Australian History: From Dream time to Federation (Level 1; CNS & TSV)
• HI1302: Modern World History (Level 1; CNS & TSV)
• HI2021: Modern Australian History (Level 2; CNS & TSV)

Research Disciplines

• Historical studies (4303)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Understanding past societies (1307)

These are the most recent publications associated with this author. To see a detailed profile of all publications stored at JCU, visit ResearchOnline@JCU. Hover over Altmetrics badges to see social impact.

Books

• Stapelbroek K (2020) Commercio, passioni e mercato: Napoli nell'Europa del Settecento. FrancoAngeli, Milan, Italy

Book Chapters

• Stapelbroek K (2021) The history of trade and the legitimacy of the Dutch Republic. In: Histories of Trade as Histories of Civilisation. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 117-150
• Stapelbroek K (2021) Commercial sociability and the management of self-interest in Isaac de Pinto's letter on card-playing. In: Historicizing Self-Interest in the Modern Atlantic World. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 73-94
• Stapelbroek K (2021) Vattel and the Seven Years’ War. In: Concepts and Contexts of Vattel's Political and Legal Thought. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 101-120
• Stapelbroek K (2019) L'organisation du commerce international dans l’ombre d'Utrecht : les perspectives hollandaises du XVIIIe siècle. In: La Diplomatie-monde. Autour de la paix d'Utrecht - 1713. Pedone, Paris, France, pp. 475-502
• Stapelbroek K (2019) "The Long peace": commercial treaties and the principles of global trade at the Peace of Utrecht. In: The 1713 Peace of Utrecht and its Enduring Effects. Nova et Vetera Iuris Gentium, 31. Brill, Utrecht, The Netherlands, pp. 93-119
• Stapelbroek K and Trampus A (2019) The legacy of Vattel's Droit des gens: contexts, concepts, reception, translation and diffusion. In: The Legacy of Vattel�s �Droit des gens. Palgrave MacMillan, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 1-28
• Stapelbroek K (2019) The foundations of Vattels 'system' of politics and the Seven Years' War: moral philosophy, luxury and the constitutional commercial state. In: The Legacy of Vattel�s �Droit des gens. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 95-134
• Stapelbroek K (2019) The International Politics of Cameralism: The Balance of Power and Dutch Translations of Justi. In: Cameralism and the Enlightenment Happiness, Governance and Reform in Transnational Perspective. Routledge, New York, NY, USA, pp. 99-124
• Stapelbroek K (2018) Raynal, Luzac and Pinto: global trade, the Dutch Republic and the history and constitution of the commercial state. In: Autour de l�Abb� Raynal. Gen�se et enjeux politiques de l�Histoire de deux Indes. Centre international d'étude du XVIIIe siècle, Ferney-Voltaire, France, pp. 45-61
• Stapelbroek K (2018) Les fondements de l'économie politique de Galiani: L'art du gouvernement, le luxe et l'histoire de l'humanité. In: �conomie et Politique chez Ferdinando Galiani. Classiques Garnier, Paris, France, pp. 457-483

Conference Papers

• Stapelbroek K (2019) The Politics of Commercial Treaties after Passarowitz. Venezia e il suo Stato da mar / Venice and its Stato da Mar: Atti del VI convegno internazionale. 22-24 February 2018, Venice, Italy

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 28+ research outputs authored by Prof Koen Stapelbroek from 2007 onwards.

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These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Current

• Vera Scarth-Johnson and 'Nature's PowerHouse': Botanising at the Endeavour River (PhD , Primary Advisor)

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