Baden is a globally recognized specialist in sexuality and human rights. His work on LGBTQ human rights in Southeast Asia and Australia is widely cited. In 2012 he was a sponsored speaker to the 14th EU-NGO Human Rights Forum in Brussels and conducted a three week lecture tour of Japan sponsored by the Australian Prime Minister's Educational Assistance Funds post the Great Eastern Tohoku Earthquake in 2011.

RESEARCH

Baden's interdisciplinary research focuses on questions of identity, social justice, sexuality and gender, human rights, diversity and variance, pedagogy and culture. His research cuts across the fields of cultural studies, media studies, creative writing, cultural geography, sociolegal studies, Asian studies, Australian Studies and education. He sees culture as the crucial fabric of political and social life.

He was the 2010-2011 Chair (Visiting Professor) in Australian Studies, Centre for Pacific Studies and American Studies, The University of Tokyo and has held Visiting Professorships/Fellowships to The University of Barcelona, Kinsey Institute, Indiana University, Tohoku University & Keio University and La Trobe University.

His book, Homosexual Rights as Human Rights: Activism in Indonesia, Singapore and Australia (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2003), won the George Duncan Memorial Award in 2005. In 2006 he received a Manning Clark House Honourable Mention for an Outstanding Contribution to Australian Culture.

Recent Engagements

PUBLICATIONS

Editorial Boards

The Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies

Coolabah, Observatori: Centre d'Estudis Australians

International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies

TEACHING

A recipient of several national teaching awards, Baden teaches Cultural Studies in the Bachelor of Arts. He has had many Honours students and 12 PhD student completions with projects, for example, on gender and LGBTQ identity, cultural citizenship, surfing culture, refugees, Indigenous and critical pedagogy, journalism ethics, colonisation and decolonisation, creative writing, ecocultural studies, activism, belonging, Buddhism and Foucault, critical race studies, human rights, new media and social justice. He welcomes new Honours, MA and PhD students.

Testimonials (1- 3 mins to download)

SERVICE

Vice-President (International) Cultural Studies Association of Australasia CSAA

Since 1997 he has provided expert testimony pro bono for more than 47 asylum cases by LGBT Southeast Asians in the USA & to the Canadian government and CNN.

Board Member, Centre for Australian Studies, University of Barcelona, Spain.

Prior to his academic career he worked for The Theosophical Society in Chennai, India, from 1986-1988, lecturing widely on Buddhism, Advaita Vedanta and contemporary Indian philosophies.

His passwords for life are curiosity and compassion.