Ben Wellings is the Associate Dean International in the Faculty of Arts.

He is an expert on the politics of nationalism in the United Kingdom and contemporary Europe, and the part played by national identity in the political polarisation within and between nations and states. His current research focuses on nationalism and disintegration in the UK and the EU, and the politics of the Anglosphere.

He comments regularly on national and international television and radio for the ABC, Channel 10, Bloomberg, Sky News Al-Jazeera, and the BBC, and has presnted his research at NATO HQ, and to the Australian government.

Before joining Monash University in 2013 he was the Convenor of European Studies at the Australian National University from 2004. Prior to his academic career he worked in the House of Commons, for a public affairs company in Edinburgh, as an assistant curator at the National Museum of Australia and as a merchant seaman on the English Channel.

He has supervised PhD theses on British foreign policy during Brexit, populism and the British Political Tradition, Helmut Kohl's nationalism, the politics of memory, and gender and politics. He is avialable to supervise topics on nationalism in the European Union, British politics, and the geopolitics of the Anglosphere.