Ben Wellings

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Ben Wellings is an Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations. He is the author of 'English Nationalism and British Disintegration' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026).

He researches the politics of English nationalism and British disintegration, the Anglosphere, and nationalism in the European Union. He is co-editor (along with Andrew Mycock) of 'The Anglosphere: Continuity, Dissonance and Location' (Proceedings of the British Academy 232. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019).

In addition to his BA in Contemporary History and French from the University of Sussex, an M.Sc. in Nationalism Studies from Edinburgh University and a PhD from the ANU, he has worked as a museum curator, a public affairs consultant, a researcher at the House of Commons, and a merchant seaman maintaining England’s supply lines to cheap French lager during the 1990s.

Experience

  • 2017–present
    Senior lecturer, Monash University
  • 2013–2016
    Lecturer, Monash University
  • 2004–2013
    Convenor of European Studies, Australian National University

Education

  • 2003 
    Australian National University, PhD in Politics and International Relations

Publications

  • 2019
    English Nationalism, Brexit and the Anglosphere: Wider Still and Wider, Manchester University Press
  • 2018
    Commemorating Race and Empire in the First World War Centenary, Liverpool University Press
  • 2016
    'Euro-myth: nationalism, war and the legtimacy of the European Union', National Identities, 18, 2.
  • 2015
    'Euroscepticism and the Anglosphere: traditions and dilemmas in contemporary English nationalism', Journal of Common Market Studies
  • 2014
    Nation, Memory and Great War Commemoration: mobilizing the past in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, Peter Lang: Oxrfod
  • 2012
    'English Nationalism and Euroscepticism: losing the peace', (Peter Lang: Oxford),
  • 2010
    'Losing the Peace: Euroscepticism and the foundations of contemporary English nationalism', Nations and Nationalism, vol.16, 3,
  • 2007
    'Rump Britain: Englishness and Britishness, 1992-2001', National Identities, vol. 9, 4,
  • 2002
    'Empire nation: national and imperial discourses in England', Nations and Nationalism, vol. 8, 1,

Research Areas

  • Comparative Government And Politics (160603)
  • International Relations (160607)

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