Joy Damousi is Professor of History in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies. She is the author of numerous books which include The Labour of Loss: Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia (Cambridge, 1999); Living with the Aftermath: Trauma, Nostalgia and Grief in Post-war Australia (Cambridge, 2001); Freud in the Antipodes: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in Australia (UNSW Press, 2005; winner of the Ernest Scott Prize) and Colonial Voices: A Cultural History of English in Australia 1840-1940 (Cambridge 2010).

With Philip Dwyer she is the general editor of a four volume World History of Violence, due to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. She is also currently the editor of the History series for Melbourne University Press. Her current research includes war, trauma and post-war Greek migration to Australia; sound and the two world wars; and child refugees and war.

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Response by Joy Damousi and Marilyn Lake

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Aftermaths Of War: Violence, Trauma, Displacement, 1815-1950

Research Grant

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NEWS ARTICLE

Humanitarianism and Child Refugee Sponsorship. The Spanish Civil War and the Global Campai..

Journal article

The Invisible Farmer: Securing Australian Farm Women'S History

Research Grant

How Leonardo da Vinci made a living from killing machines

NEWS ARTICLE

Editorial: Refugees: Past and Present

Journal article

Projects

Displaying the 22 most recent projects by Joy Damousi.

Aftermaths Of War: Violence, Trauma, Displacement, 1815-1950

2020 - 2024

Active

The Invisible Farmer: Securing Australian Farm Women'S History

This project, believed to be the first national study of farm women in Australia, aims to address their historical and contemporary invisibi..

2016 - 2019

Completed

The Invisible Farmer: Securing Australian Farm Women'S History

This project, believed to be the first national study of farm women in Australia, aims to address their historical and contemporary invisibi..

2016 - 2019

Completed

The Invisible Farmer

2015 - 2015

Completed

Child Refugees And Australian Internationalism: 1920 To The Present

This project aims to generate new and powerful understandings of the impact and experiences of child refugees in Australia throughout the tw..

2014 - 2020

Active

Child Refugees And Australian Internationalism: 1920 To The Present

This project aims to generate new and powerful understandings of the impact and experiences of child refugees in Australia throughout the tw..

2014 - 2020

Active

'Hell Sounds': The Soundscape Of War, 1914-1945

Hell Sounds will explore how the experience of war is mediated by sound. Drawing on diaries, memoirs and contemporary accounts, this project..

2014 - 2019

Completed

Comedy - No Laughing Matter: Identifying And Preserving The History Of Comedy In Melbourne From The 1960s Through The 1980s.

This project will document the historical development of the comedy industry in Melbourne through preserving the material culture and record..

2013 - 2016

Completed

Comedy - No Laughing Matter: Identifying And Preserving The History Of Comedy In Melbourne From The 1960s Through The 1980s.

This project will document the historical development of the comedy industry in Melbourne through preserving the material culture and record..

2013 - 2016

Completed

Women And Leadership In A Century Of Australian Democracy

This examination of Australian women leaders addresses the National Research Priority area, frontier technologies. Six Partner Organisations..

2011 - 2013

Completed

Women And Leadership In A Century Of Australian Democracy

This examination of Australian women leaders addresses the National Research Priority area, frontier technologies. Six Partner Organisations..

2011 - 2013

Completed

Women And Leadership In A Century Of Australian Democracy

This examination of Australian women leaders addresses the National Research Priority area, frontier technologies. Six Partner Organisations..

2011 - 2013

Completed

Women And Leadership In A Century Of Australian Democracy

This examination of Australian women leaders addresses the National Research Priority area, frontier technologies. Six Partner Organisations..

2011 - 2013

Completed

Women And Leadership In A Century Of Australian Democracy

This examination of Australian women leaders addresses the National Research Priority area, frontier technologies. Six Partner Organisations..

2011 - 2014

Completed

Women And Leadership In A Century Of Australian Democracy

This examination of Australian women leaders addresses the National Research Priority area, frontier technologies. Six Partner Organisations..

2011 - 2013

Completed

Psycholanalysis And Politics: Histories Of Psychoanalysis And Political Represssion

2010 - 2010

Completed

Psycholanalysis And Politics: Histories Of Psychoanalysis And Political Represssion

2010 - 2010

Completed

Making The Case: The Case Study Genre In Sexology, Psychoanalysis And Literature

Questions of sexual subjectivity continue to concern scholars in the humanities and social sciences today as they did in the 19th and early ..

2010 - 2016

Completed

Greek War Stories: Trans-Nationalism, War Trauma And Migration

Australian history is dominated by stories of populations who have fled or migrated from war zones. Understanding the adjustment of such gro..

2010 - 2015

Completed

Greek War Stories: Transnationalism, War Trauma And Migration.

2009 - 2009

Completed

"Elocution Lessons: A History Of Elocution, Speech And The Auditory Self In Australian Cultural Life. "

This project makes a contribution to the national and community benefit by showing that speech and voice has played a central role in how Au..

Freud In The Antipodes: A Cultural History Of Psychoanalysis

This project will challenge the argument that Australian intellectuals, more concerned with nationalism and social progress, have resisted i..

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Scholarly Works

Displaying the 120 most recent scholarly works by Joy Damousi.

Response by Joy Damousi and Marilyn Lake

J Damousi, M Lake

Journal article | 2020 | History Australia

It is indeed an honour that 25 years after the publication of Gender and War its enduring intellectual significance and political ..

Humanitarianism and Child Refugee Sponsorship. The Spanish Civil War and the Global Campaign of Esme Odgers

Joy Damousi

Journal article | 2020 | Journal of Women's History

This article explores the humanitarian work of the Australian Communist Esme Odgers during the Spanish Civil War. Odgers’s story h..

Editorial: Refugees: Past and Present

Joy Damousi, Rachel Stevens

Journal article | 2019 | Australian Journal of Politics & History

From humanitarian “Charity” to “Justice”: the Australian Foster Parents Plan and Fostering Refugees in Asia during the 1970s

Joy Damousi

Journal article | 2019 | Australian Journal of Politics & History

From the President

J Damousi

Journal article | 2019 | History Australia

From the president

J Damousi

Journal article | 2019 | History Australia

Out of ‘Common Humanity’: Humanitarianism, Compassion and Efforts in Australia to Assist Jewish Refugees in the 1930s

J Damousi

Journal article | 2019 | Australian Historical Studies

From the president

J Damousi

Journal article | 2019 | History Australia

A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Modern and Post-Modern Age (1920-2000 ): Volume 6

Book | 2019

A Cultural history of the Emotions explores how emotions have changed over the course of human history, as well as how emotions ha..

World Refugee Year 1959–60: Humanitarian Rights in Postwar Australia

Joy Damousi

Journal article | 2019 | Australian Historical Studies

Transforming Australian History: Humanitarianism and Transnationalism

Joy Damousi

Book Chapter | 2019

Contesting Australian History. Essays in Honour of Marilyn Lake

Joy Damousi, Judith Smart

Book | 2019

One of Australia's leading scholars and a highly distinguished professor of history, Marilyn Lake forged a career that spanned sev..

From the Modern to the Digital World: New Order, New Emotions

Joy Damousi, JW Davidson

Book Chapter | 2019

Across six volumes, A Cultural History of the Emotions explores how emotions have changed over the course of human history, but al..

From the president

J Damousi

Journal article | 2018 | History Australia

The Campaign for Japanese-Australian Children to enter Australia, 1957-1968: A History of Post-War Humanitarianism

Joy Damousi

Journal article | 2018 | Australian Journal of Politics and History

Jewish Children in Australian History

J Damousi

Journal article | 2018 | Australian Jewish Historical Society. Journal

League of Nations. Histories, Legacies and Impact

Joy Damousi, Patricia O'Brien

Book | 2018

Australian League of Nations Union and war refugees, 1930-39

J Damousi

Book Chapter | 2018

MOTHERS IN WAR: "RESPONSIBLE MOTHERING," CHILDREN, AND THE PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY WAR

Joy Damousi

Journal article | 2017 | History and Theory

THEORIZING HISTORIES OF VIOLENCE

Philip Dwyer, Joy Damousi

Journal article | 2017 | History and Theory

Gender and Mourning

J Damousi

Book Chapter | 2017

The Greek Civil War, Child Removal and Traumatic Pasts in Australia

J Damousi

Book Chapter | 2017

Hidden by the myth: women's leadership in war and peace

J Damousi

Book Chapter | 2017

Building "healthy happy family units': Aileen Fitzpatrick and reuniting children separated by the Greek Civil War with their families in Australia, 1949-1954

Joy Damousi

Journal article | 2017 | HISTORY OF THE FAMILY

Sounds and Silence of War: Dresden and Paris during World War II

J Damousi

Book Chapter | 2017

In February 2015, the seventieth anniversary of the bombing of Dresden (13-15 February 1945) was commemorated with great solemnity..

A history of the case study: sexology, psychoanalysis, literature

B Lang, undefined Damousi, A Lewis

Book | 2017

A cultural history of sound, memory, and the senses

J Damousi, P Hamilton

Book | 2017

The past 20 years have witnessed a turn towards the sensuous, particularly the aural, as a viable space for critical exploration i..

The Conscription Conflict and the Great War

Robin Archer, Joy Damousi, Murray Goot, Sean Scalmer

Book | 2016

Introduction: Leaning in

J Damousi, P Hamilton

Book Chapter | 2016

“This is against all the British traditions of fair play”: Violence against Greeks on the Australian home-front during the First World War’

J Damousi

Book Chapter | 2016

Universities and Conscription: The Yes Campaign and the University of Melbourne

J Damousi

Book Chapter | 2016

Memory and Migration in the Shadow of War Australia's Greek Immigrants after World War II and the Greek Civil War

J Damousi

Book | 2015

Memory. and. Migration. in. the. Shadow. of. War. In an engaging and original contribution to the field of memory studies, Joy Da..

John Springthorpe's war

J Damousi

Journal article | 2015 | LaTrobe Journal

Sexuality and the Public Case Study in the United States, 1940–65

J Damousi

Book Chapter | 2015

Humanitarianism in the interwar years: How Australians responded to the child refugees of the Armenian genocide and the Greek-Turkish exchange

J Damousi

Journal article | 2015 | History Australia

Case Studies and the Dissemination of Knowledge

B Lang, J Damousi, K Sutton

Book | 2015

The case study has proved of enduring interest to all Western societies, particularly in relation to questions of subjectivity and..

Introduction: Case Studies and the Dissemination of Knowledge

B Lang, J Damousi, K Sutton

Book Chapter | 2015

The state and the Widow: Pension debates in Inter-War Years Australia

J Damousi

Book Chapter | 2014

DOES FEMINIST HISTORY HAVE A FUTURE?

Joy Damousi

Journal article | 2014 | Australian Feminist Studies

Mourning Practices

undefined Damousi, J

Book Chapter | 2014

This volume concludes with a reckoning of the costs and consequences of The Great War.

Introduction

J Damousi, J Lydon

Journal article | 2014 | Journal of Australian Studies

Conclusion: Gender and leadership

Joy Damousi, Mary Tomsic

Book Chapter | 2014

Female Factory Inspectors and Leadership in Early Twentieth Century Australia

J DAMOUSI

Book Chapter | 2014

Diversity in Leadership: Australian women, past and present

J Damousi, K Rubenstein, M Tomsic

Book | 2014

While leadership is an over-used term today, how it is defined for women and the contexts in which it emerges remains elusive. Mor..

"We are Human Beings, and have a Past": The "Adjustment" of Migrants and the Australian Assimilation Policies of the 1950s

J Damousi

Journal article | 2013 | Australian Journal of Politics and History

This article argues that the assimilation policy adopted by the Australian government during the 1950s was based on a denial of a ..

Viola Bernard and the Analysis of "Alice Conrad": A Case Study in the History of Intimacy

Joy Damousi

Journal article | 2013 | Journal of the History of Sexuality

Remembering the 1951 Referendum on the Banning of the Communist Party

Ann Curthoys, Joy Damousi

Journal article | 2013 | Australian Historical Studies

'Women-Keep Australia Free!': Women Voters and Activists in the 1951 Referendum Campaign

Joy Damousi

Journal article | 2013 | Australian Historical Studies

Silence and noise: Legacies of war and migration for second generation Greek-Australians

J Damousi

Journal article | 2013 | Agora (Sungrapho)

Legacies of war and migration: Memories of war trauma, dislocation and second generation Greek-Australians

J Damousi

Book Chapter | 2012

Psychoanalysis and Politics: Histories of Psychoanalysis under Conditions of Restricted Political Freedom

J Damousi, MB Plotkin

Book | 2012

Introduction: Psychoanalysis and Politics: Historical Perspectives

J Damousi, MB Plotkin

Book Chapter | 2012

The Greek Civil War and child migration to Australia: Aileen Fitzpatrick and the Australian Council of International Social Service

Joy Damousi

Journal article | 2012 | Social History

Colonial Voices: A Cultural History of English in Australia 1840-1940

Kate Darian-Smith

Book | 2012 | Australian Historical Studies

War and Commemoration: 'The Responsibility of Empire'

J Damousi

Book Chapter | 2011

War Trauma, Psychology and Portraiture

J Damousi

Book Chapter | 2011

Kay Daniels, Convict Women and 19th-Century Tasmanian History

J Damousi

Journal article | 2011 | Tasmanian Historical Studies

Geza Roheim and the Australian Aborigine: Psychoanalytic Anthropology during the Interwar Years

J Damousi

Book Chapter | 2011

On the Effects of Barracking

J Damousi

Creative Published Work | 2011

Ethnicity and emotions: psychic life in Greek communities

JD Damousi

Journal article | 2010 | Modern Greek Studies (Australia & New Zealand

Why do we get so emotional about ANZAC?

J DAMOUSI

Book Chapter | 2010

What's Wrong with ANZAC?

Book | 2010

Introduction to The Transnational Unconscious: Essays in the History of Psychoanalysis and Transnationalism

J DAMOUSI, M Plotkin

Book Chapter | 2009

Footy Passions

J CASH, J DAMOUSI

Book | 2009

Eyes Left: Psychiatrist Reginald Ellery and the Soviet Dream

J DAMOUSI

Book Chapter | 2008

An Absence of Anything Masculine: Vida Goldstein and Women's Public Speech

J DAMOUSI

Journal article | 2008 | Victorian Historical Journal

The Transnational Unconscious Essays in the History of Psychoanalysis and Transnationalism Introduction

Joy Damousi, Mariano Ben Plotkin

Book | 2008

A History of the Australian Voice and Speech in Russell Ward's The Australian Legend and Beyond

J DAMOUSI

Journal article | 2008 | Journal of Australian Colonial History

The Travelling Psychoanalyst: Andrew Peto and Transnational Explorations of Psychoanalysis in Budapest, Sydney and New York

Joy Damousi

Book Chapter | 2008

Australian medical intellectuals and the great war

Joy Damousi

Journal article | 2007 | AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY

"The filthy American twang": Elocution, the advent of American "Talkies," and Australian cultural identity

Joy Damousi

Journal article | 2007 | AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW

'The Australian Has a Lazy Way of Talking': Australian character and accent, 1920s-1940s

Joy Damousi

Book Chapter | 2007

Talking and Listening in the Age of Modernity: Essays on the History of Sound

Book | 2007

Listening to the past Introduction

Joy Damousi, Desley Deacon

Book Chapter | 2007

Freud's free clinics: Psychoanalysis and social justice, 1918-1938

J Damousi

Journal article | 2006 | Social History of Medicine

Fathers and Daughters at Play

J CASH, J DAMOUSI

Book Chapter | 2006

' "The Slowly Changing Status of Women": Women's Studies and Gender Studies'

J DAMOUSI

Book Chapter | 2006

Love in time of war: Letter writing in the Second World War

J Damousi

Journal article | 2005 | NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF HISTORY