Associate Professor Philip Dwyer teaches European History at the University of Newcastle. His biography Napoleon, 1769-1799: The Path to Power, won the National Biography Award in 2008. He is currently working on the sequel to this, as well as a number of related projects that include the war memoir, and the massacre in history. Philip currently heads the Violence and Social Order research program in the Humanities Research Institute at Newcastle. As a biographer of Napoleon, he grappled with the issue of character development over time of his subject.