Barbara Keys (BA Carleton College; MA Washington; A.M. Harvard;
PhD, Harvard University) Barbara is Professor of U.S. and International History at the University of Melbourne.

Her scholarship crosses several areas including the history of international human rights, the influence of transnational movements and organizations on international affairs, the role of emotions in history, and the history of international sports competitions and international sports organizations. Barbara is a highly productive and accomplished historian whose work has been widely praised and acknowledged by her peers. She is the author of two books, Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s (2014), and Globalizing Sport: National Rivalry and International Community in the 1930s (2006). Globalizing Sport won six prizes, including: the Myrna Bernath award of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, and the best book from the North American Society for Sport History, the Australian Society for Sports History, and the International Society for
Olympic Historians.

Barbara is also the editor of The Ideals of Global Sport: From Peace to Human Rights (2019) which won the ASSH Anthology for 2019. In 2011, Barbara delivered the keynote address to the Sporting Traditions conference in Kingscliff. As well as her historical scholarship, Barbara is the Assistant Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne, and the current President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.