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Professional Background
Dr John Reeve was educated at Melbourne University (MA) and Pembroke College, Cambridge (PhD), and taught British, European, naval and military history at Cambridge, Yale, Hong Kong and Sydney Universities before being appointed to the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy as Senior Lecturer and Osborne Fellow in Naval History in 1997. Dr Reeve's work has received various honours and awards including a Fulbright Fellowship held at Yale, a Visiting Fellowship at Clare Hall, Cambridge, a Large Grant from the Australian Research Council, a Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society, and membership of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Research Interests
Dr Reeve specialises in two inter-related historical areas: early modern British/European history and naval history, as well as in contemporary maritime strategic affairs. He is currently engaged on a major project dealing with early modern British foreign policy and military strategy.
Consulting Interests
Dr Reeve is an Associate Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (British Academy/Oxford UP, 2004) as well as a multiple contributor to the ODNB on early modern political, diplomatic and military subjects.
Dr Reeve has worked with the Royal Australian Navy in several areas, principally those of naval history and strategic policy. He has been involved in the organisation of all five biennial King-Hall Naval History Conferences since 1999. He testified before the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade during the Parliamentary Inquiry into Australia's Maritime Strategy in 2003.
Publications
Dr Reeve's publications include a study of British politics, diplomacy and strategy during the Thirty Years War: Charles I and the Road to Personal Rule (Cambridge UP, 1989 and several reprints). He has co-edited (with David Stevens) four volumes of naval history: Southern Trident: Strategy, History and the Rise of Australian Naval Power (Allen and Unwin, 2001), The Face of Naval Battle: The Human Experience of Modern War at Sea (Allen and Unwin, 2003), The Navy and the Nation: The Influence of the Navy on Modern Australia (Allen and Unwin, 2005), and Seapower Ashore and in the Air (Halstead Press, 2007). His work has appeared in some of the major historical journals including The English Historical Review, The Historical Journal, The Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research and The Journal of British Studies.
He has published twenty articles and chapters on early modern politics, diplomacy and warfare, naval history, and maritime strategic theory and practice, including a chapter on foreign policy and war in John Morrill (ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor and Stuart Britain (Oxford UP, 1996, reprinted 2000), an essay on 'The Development of Naval Strategy in the Asia-Pacific Region 1500-2000' in Geoffrey Till (ed.), Seapower at the Millennium (Sutton/Royal Naval Museum, 2001), the entry on 'Naval Warfare 1600-1700' in C.Messenger (ed.), Reader's Guide to Military History (Dearborn, 2001), an essay on ‘Maritime Operations and Counter-Terrorism: an Australian View’ in Jack McCaffrie (ed.), Positioning Navies for the Future (Halstead, 2006), and most recently a chapter on British naval strategy in Donald J.Stoker and Kenneth J.Hagan (eds), Strategy in the American War of Independence (Cass, 2009).
Courses Taught
Undergraduate:
The Rise of Modern Navies and Sea Power 1500-1900
Naval History and Sea Power in the Twentieth Century
Postgraduate:
Modern Naval History and Strategy
Amphibious Warfare
Dr Reeve is an active supervisor in his areas of interest, and has supervised many theses at the BA honours, Master and PhD levels.
Areas of Potential Postgraduate Supervision
- Naval history
- History of maritime strategic thought
- Contemporary maritime strategic studies
- Early modern diplomatic and political history