Andrekos Varnava
I am Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, Professor in British Imperial and Colonial History at Flinders University. I was born (1979) and raised in Melbourne to Cypriot-born parents. My father was born in Frenaros, Famagusta, and came to Australia in 1952 on the 'Corsica' and mum was born in Agios Elias, Famagusta, and came to Australia after the war in 1974, when she was displaced. I grew-up in Oakleigh where I nurtured my interests for playing and following tennis, watching old movies, and learning about history.
I obtained my BA(Honours) from Monash University (2001) and my PhD (2006) from the University of Melbourne. I worked at the European University, Cyprus, in Nicosia, from September 2006 to January 2009. I was then appointed Lecturer at Flinders University, promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2012, Associate Professor in 2016 and Professor in 2022. I am also an Honorary Professor at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.
I have authored four monographs: Assassination in Colonial Cyprus in 1934 and the Origins of EOKA (Anthem Press, ppk.2021); British Cyprus and the Long Great War, 1914-1925: Empire, Loyalties and Democratic Deficit (Routledge, 2020/ppk.2021); Serving the Empire in the Great War: The Cypriot Mule Corps, Imperial Loyalty and Silenced Memory (ManU Press, 2017/ppk.2019) and British Imperialism in Cyprus, 1878-1915: The Inconsequential Possession (ManU Press, 2009/ppk.2012). I have edited/co-edited 13 collections, most recently: Exiting War: The British Empire and the 1918-20 Moment, (ManU Press, 2022); After the Armistice: Empire, Endgame and Aftermath (Routledge, 2021); Comic Empires: The Imperialism of Cartoons, Caricature and Satirical Art (ManU Press, 2019/ppk.2022); and Australia, Migration and Empire: Immigrants in a Globalised World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). I have also co-edited special issues of Australian Historical Studies, 52(1), 2021, Contemporary British History, 33(4), 2019 and Itinerario, 38(3), 2014 and published over 50 articles/chapters, including in English Historical Review (2017), The Historical Journal (2014), Journal of Modern History (2018), Historical Research (2014, 2017, 2022), Contemporary British History (2019), Social History of Medicine (2020), Journal of Modern Greek Studies (2020), International History Review (2021), Immigrants and Minorities (2021) and Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (2022). My books are listed in libraries worldwide and I have over 1,800 google scholar citations.
I have also published a collection of poems, 'In the Aviary of Youthful Freedom', in 2015.
My research generally fall under the umbrella of imperial and/or colonial histories of the Eastern Mediterranean, specifically Cyprus.
Honours, awards and grants
2018-20: ARC DP180102200, A/Professor Andrekos Varnava (Lead CI); E/P Eric Richards (CI); A/P Marinella Marmo (CI); Dr Anastasia Dukova (PI - Griffith University), titled: 'Managing migrants and border control in Britain and Australia, 1901-1981', $206,531. Dr Evan Smith is a Research Fellow on the project. Sadly Professor Richards died in September 2018. Dr Andonis Piperoglou (PI) joined the team in January 2019. Here is our website: https://managingmigrants.wordpress.com/
2018-: Honorary Professor, De Monfort University, Leicester, England.
2016: Flinders Research Grant (Faculty) New Project, $8,300, titled: 'The Colonial Origins of Refugee Exclusion: Russian and Armenian Refugees in British Cyprus in the 1920s'
2016: Flinders Research Grant (Faculty) Modified Project, $11,765, titled 'Betrayed Promises: Allied Imperialism, Humanitarianism and the Armenians'
2014: Elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society, UK (FRHistS).
2014: Flinders Research Grant (Faculty) New Project, $6,000 (with Evan Smith), titled: 'Monitoring a "suspect community" in the UK: The colonialist origins of the national/border security nexus and interwar London's Cypriot community'.
2012: Visiting Professor, Bogazici University, June-August 2012
2012: Australian Academy of the Humanities Travelling Fellowship, $2,500, titled: 'British Imperialism in Cyprus and the First World War, 1915-1925'.
2009: Flinders Research Scheme (Faculty) New Project, $4,000, titled: 'The Establishment of the Legion d'Orient in October 1916'.
Phone: Tel: (+61) 08 8201 2423
Address: Associate Professor Andrekos Varnava,
School of History and International Relations,
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences,
Flinders University,
GPO Box 2100,
Adelaide SA 5001,
Australia.
I obtained my BA(Honours) from Monash University (2001) and my PhD (2006) from the University of Melbourne. I worked at the European University, Cyprus, in Nicosia, from September 2006 to January 2009. I was then appointed Lecturer at Flinders University, promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2012, Associate Professor in 2016 and Professor in 2022. I am also an Honorary Professor at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.
I have authored four monographs: Assassination in Colonial Cyprus in 1934 and the Origins of EOKA (Anthem Press, ppk.2021); British Cyprus and the Long Great War, 1914-1925: Empire, Loyalties and Democratic Deficit (Routledge, 2020/ppk.2021); Serving the Empire in the Great War: The Cypriot Mule Corps, Imperial Loyalty and Silenced Memory (ManU Press, 2017/ppk.2019) and British Imperialism in Cyprus, 1878-1915: The Inconsequential Possession (ManU Press, 2009/ppk.2012). I have edited/co-edited 13 collections, most recently: Exiting War: The British Empire and the 1918-20 Moment, (ManU Press, 2022); After the Armistice: Empire, Endgame and Aftermath (Routledge, 2021); Comic Empires: The Imperialism of Cartoons, Caricature and Satirical Art (ManU Press, 2019/ppk.2022); and Australia, Migration and Empire: Immigrants in a Globalised World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). I have also co-edited special issues of Australian Historical Studies, 52(1), 2021, Contemporary British History, 33(4), 2019 and Itinerario, 38(3), 2014 and published over 50 articles/chapters, including in English Historical Review (2017), The Historical Journal (2014), Journal of Modern History (2018), Historical Research (2014, 2017, 2022), Contemporary British History (2019), Social History of Medicine (2020), Journal of Modern Greek Studies (2020), International History Review (2021), Immigrants and Minorities (2021) and Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (2022). My books are listed in libraries worldwide and I have over 1,800 google scholar citations.
I have also published a collection of poems, 'In the Aviary of Youthful Freedom', in 2015.
My research generally fall under the umbrella of imperial and/or colonial histories of the Eastern Mediterranean, specifically Cyprus.
Honours, awards and grants
2018-20: ARC DP180102200, A/Professor Andrekos Varnava (Lead CI); E/P Eric Richards (CI); A/P Marinella Marmo (CI); Dr Anastasia Dukova (PI - Griffith University), titled: 'Managing migrants and border control in Britain and Australia, 1901-1981', $206,531. Dr Evan Smith is a Research Fellow on the project. Sadly Professor Richards died in September 2018. Dr Andonis Piperoglou (PI) joined the team in January 2019. Here is our website: https://managingmigrants.wordpress.com/
2018-: Honorary Professor, De Monfort University, Leicester, England.
2016: Flinders Research Grant (Faculty) New Project, $8,300, titled: 'The Colonial Origins of Refugee Exclusion: Russian and Armenian Refugees in British Cyprus in the 1920s'
2016: Flinders Research Grant (Faculty) Modified Project, $11,765, titled 'Betrayed Promises: Allied Imperialism, Humanitarianism and the Armenians'
2014: Elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society, UK (FRHistS).
2014: Flinders Research Grant (Faculty) New Project, $6,000 (with Evan Smith), titled: 'Monitoring a "suspect community" in the UK: The colonialist origins of the national/border security nexus and interwar London's Cypriot community'.
2012: Visiting Professor, Bogazici University, June-August 2012
2012: Australian Academy of the Humanities Travelling Fellowship, $2,500, titled: 'British Imperialism in Cyprus and the First World War, 1915-1925'.
2009: Flinders Research Scheme (Faculty) New Project, $4,000, titled: 'The Establishment of the Legion d'Orient in October 1916'.
Phone: Tel: (+61) 08 8201 2423
Address: Associate Professor Andrekos Varnava,
School of History and International Relations,
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences,
Flinders University,
GPO Box 2100,
Adelaide SA 5001,
Australia.
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This book offers a theory on who was behind the assassination of Antonios Triantafyllides, the FIRST attempt to break open and explain an 87-year-old cold case.In doing so, it explores both the relationship between the British colonial authorities and the Cypriot political elites, and the various divisions within the latter. Triantafyllides supported enosis, the union of Cyprus with Greece, but after over a decade of involvement in nationalist politics without results, he decided that the only way to achieve it was to cooperate with the British. This change occurred by the 1931 crisis, which culminated in the burning of the government house in Nicosia in October and led to a British crackdown, including the suspension of the constitution, abolition of the Legislative Council and the deporting of leading nationalists. In October 1933, the British decided to establish an Advisory Council of leading Cypriots. Triantafyllides, who had, albeit briefly, served in the elected Legislative Council and the nominated Executive Council, accepted the invitation. He attended one meeting before being shot. The British initially suspected the extreme nationalists and banished five of them, then blamed a communist conspiracy, but the man charged was acquitted.
This book creates and analyses a ‘community of records’ to show that by reading both with and especially against the grain, it is probable that those responsible were radical right-wing nationalist extremists. Thus, for historical criminologists and crime investigators, the exploration of the sources examined could serve as a model of forensic analysis of cold cases. For those interested in the British Empire, the book shows how the British authorities had no real control over extremist nationalist politics and political violence in the 1930s no more than they did in the 1950s, and they were unable to protect those individuals willing to work with them to better the country. In fact, as numerous historians have attested, during the campaign by EOKA between April 1955 and March 1959, more Greek Cypriot civilians were murdered than any other target group. For those with an interest in Cypriot history, this book will make startling and uncomfortable revelations about the so-called National Liberation Movement in Cyprus and suggest that the violence that gripped the island from the 1950s and led to partition could have been avoided had not for the assassination of arguably the most capable and astute politician produced, at least until that time, in the island.
This study follows Cyprus’ progress from a perceived imperial asset to an expendable backwater by explaining how the Union Jack came to fly over the island and why after thirty-five years the British wanted it lowered. Cyprus’ importance was always more imagined than real and was enmeshed within widely held cultural signifiers and myths. British Imperialism in Cyprus, 1878–1915 fills a gap in the existing literature on the early British period in Cyprus and challenges the received and monolithic view that British imperial policy was based primarily or exclusively on strategic-military considerations.
The combination of archival research, cultural analysis and visual narrative makes for an enjoyable read for academics and students of Imperial, British and European history.
Within this general context, the social, legal and political roles, customs, culture and language of the various minorities are examined as they evolved through time and in response to internal and external developments affecting Cyprus in the political, economic and global spheres. They are discussed not as static entities, but as evolving groups that have adapted with greater or lesser degrees of success to the radical and at times painful changes Cyprus has undergone, especially over the last 150 years, in all walks of life. Finally, the question of what the future holds for the minorities of the island in the light of Cyprus’ EU membership and the prospect of reunification are also analysed.
This book is a product of the conference “Minorities of Cyprus: Past, Present and Future”, which was held on 24 and 25 November 2007 at the European University Cyprus.
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