People

Prof Tim Winter commenced appointment as Cluster Leader of the Inter-Asia Engagements Cluster on 1 August 2023.

He has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Manchester and was previously an Australian Research Council Professorial Future Fellow. He is also a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. His interests revolve around understanding how the past is constructed for public audiences and for diplomatic, geopolitical and nationalistic purposes.  He is author of Geocultural Power: China’s Quest to Revive the Silk Roads for the Twenty First Century (University of Chicago Press, 2019) and The Silk Road: Connecting histories and futures (Oxford University Press, 2022).