Jordana Silverstein is an ARC Postdoctoral Associate with the ARC Laureate Fellowship Project 'Child Refugees and Australian Internationalism: 1920 to the Present', led by Professor Joy Damousi. As part of this project, Jordana is investigating the history of Australian Government policy directed towards child refugees from 1970 to the present.
Her previous research has focused on questions of belonging, nationalism, identity, historiography, sexuality and memory, which she has primarily investigated through the lens of Australian Jewish history.
Her book, 'Anxious Histories: Narrating the Holocaust in Jewish Communities at the Beginning of the Twenty First Century' is published by Berghahn Books (2015), and she has also co-edited a volume entitled 'In the Shadows of Memory: The Holocaust and the Third Generation' (Vallentine Mitchell, 2016).
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“Because we all love our country”: Refugee and Asylum-Seeking Children, Australian Policy-Makers, and the Building of National Sentiment
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Credentials
Positions
Post Doctoral Research Associate
Historical And Philosophical Studies
Casual
Historical And Philosophical Studies
Honorary
Historical And Philosophical Studies
Member, Aha
Australian Historical Association
Member, Awgsa
Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association
Member, Awhn
Australian Women's History Network
Education
PhD
University of Melbourne
BA (Hons)
University of Melbourne