Dr. CHARLES CASSAR
Ph.D (Cantab), FCCS
As a historian and author, he is probably the most notable authority on
the history of Malta during the Great Siege and the sixteenth century. Besides
being the Acting Curator of the Ethnography Section of the Museum Department,
he is a lecturer in the History of the Mediterranean at the University of
Malta.
Throughout his career, Dr Cassar has also directed and co-ordinated various
education courses in Mediterranean history for European and American students.
He has been responsible for extensive research and archive projects on Malta's
medieval history, and his work has earned him several notable awards and
fellowships from educational and historical institutions in Europe. Dr Cassar
has various monographs, book chapters and historical papers to his credit,
and he has two books on historical social anthropology in print. A Fellow
of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society, Dr Cassar is a History graduate of
both University of Malta and the University of Cambridge, holding doctorates
in Philosophy of Social Anthropology and Cultural History.
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