Emeritus Professor Howard Brasted
Emeritus Professor - Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education; School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Email: hbrasted@une.edu.au
Biography
Just falling short of achieving a half century of teaching and researching at the UNE, Howard Brasted was made Emeritus Professor of history and Islamic studies on his retirement in 2020. He had been appointed by Russel Ward to a lectureship in Asian civilisations in 1974, having completed a PhD at Edinburgh University on Irish and Indian challenges to the British empire. He later went on to develop units on Indian nationalism and Gandhian non-violence, before establishing a postgraduate Masters of Islamic Studies in 1994, the first of its kind in Australia. A long-time editor of the journal South Asia (1984-2001) and Secretary of the South Asian Studies Association (1984-2002), he has published widely on a range of themes including decolonisation in South Asia, labour standards in Asia, and since 9/11 Islamic radicalization. His publications in that field include: ‘A New World Disorder in the Making?’, ‘Revisiting S.P. Huntington’s “The Clash of Civilizations” Thesis’, and co-edited volumes Religion, Extremism and Violence in South Asia (Springer, 2022) and The Routledge Handbook of Populism in Asia and The Pacific (Routledge,2024).
