About Christian
Christian is an international relations honours student and Lecturer at the University of Western Australia, School of Indigenous Studies. He is a Whadjuk and Ballardong Noongar man who shares Italian and German ancestry and is a proud Australian. His honours research examined the historical development of Australia’s strategic narratives and how they shaped Australian security and defence from 1824-1953. In his current and proposed research, he examines how these strategic narratives have informed Australia’s contemporary strategic posture. Through lecturing at UWA and exposure to policy work interning at the Defence and Security Institute of Western Australia, Christian has developed an interdisciplinary approach to policy work that bridges history, international relations and strategic policy. This blend provides theoretical texture to his work whilst producing practically relevant policy suggestions. He will undertake an MPhil at the University of Oxford with the Department of International Relations, to further his journey as an aspiring scholarly diplomat of Australia. He will return to Australia equipped with a distinctive approach to Australian strategy in the Indo-Pacific, to tackle how Australia will respond to the structural reordering of the global system in the Asian Century.
