Cody is a published historian and author. He studied history and politics at the University of New England (Armidale), where he was awarded the 2019 James Dolan Memorial Prize in History and was a 2021 Vice Chancellor's Scholar. West Point Military Academy and Georgia Southern University have published Cody's undergraduate research concerning the history of German unification in the eighteenth century and imperial Spanish administration during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He has postgraduate qualifications in marketing and digital communications from Monash University. Cody started the History's Page online project in his early teens as a platform for engaging and thoughtful history content, with a focus on applied history.

Research Interests

Cody is interested in Australian, British and European history, with a particular focus on intellectual, religious, political and military history. During his undergraduate course, he studied a range of topics relating to ancient and modern history, emphasising European intellectual and military history.

His topics of study included:

1. Classical and modern political and ethical thought—including Plato, Aristotle, ancient Epicureanism, Machiavelli's The Prince, socialist egalitarianism, and modern luck egalitarianism

2. Ancient Rome, especially its military and political history

3. Egypt and the Near East, emphasising the Egyptian empire during the eighteenth dynasty (sixteenth to thirteenth centuries BC)

4. Chinese and Japanese religious history—including Daoism, Shintō and Buddhism

5. The history of Islam—in particular, debates around its treatment of women in Islam at its founding (seventh century) and in contemporary contexts

6. European intellectual, political and military history, with a focus on the renaissance (fourteenth and fifteenth centuries), the enlightenment (eighteenth century), the Austro-Prussian war (1866) and its implications for German political unification, and the origins of First World War (1914–1918)

7. Spanish imperialism (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) and the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)

Cody is currently exploring modern British intellectual history, in particular themes of environmentalism, anti-industrialisation and agrarianism in the works of CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, and the Inklings. His other research interests include the history of music and the history of theology.

You can follow Cody on Academia.edu. Find his ORCID profile here: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1441-5963