Jesse Seeberg-Gordon
PhD
Jesse Seeberg-Gordon is a historian of the Soviet Union, the Baltic states, and the Cold War. Formerly based with the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory, he is now a Melbourne University PhD Candidate coordinating with the Research Initiative on Post-Soviet Space. His most recent accomplishments include the National Archives of Australia/Australian Historical Association Postgraduate Scholarship and membership of the Menzies Early Career Network. His articles have been published in the Australian Journal of Politics and History (2023) and the Estonian history journal Ajalooline Ajakiri (forthcoming 2024). He is a committee member of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies Australasian Chapter.
Contact:
Thesis
On the Diplomatic Sidelines: A Study of Australian-Soviet Relations
My project is an attempt to map the diplomatic relationship between Australia and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The provisory timeframe for this project is 1959-c.1976. Although Moscow was the chief Cold War adversary of the West (Australia included), very little scholarship has addressed diplomacy between these two distant but interrelated countries. Using new foreign affairs archival sources, I anticipate this study will provide valuable insight into the diplomatic back room from this period, giving us a new understanding of the history of diplomacy and security policy in the Asia Pacific region.
Research interests
- Soviet Union
- Cold War
- Baltic history
- Estonian history