Prof Joy Damousi
Professor- Historical Studies
School of Historical and Philosophical Studies
198 Scholarly works
22 Projects
HIGHLIGHTS
2026
Journal article
Dreams and Nightmares: Imagining the Aftermath of War, 1815–1945
DOI: 10.1093/ehr/ceaf1952025
Journal article
Russians in Cold War Australia by SheilaFitzpatrick and PhillipDeery, eds. The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2024. 338 pp. $130.00. ISBN 978‐1‐66694‐499‐0
DOI: 10.1111/russ.700062025
Book Chapter
Family memories of war and displacement
DOI: 10.7765/9781526183033.000152025
Book Chapter
Medical Missionaries and the Humanitarian Subject: The American Women’s Hospital, Faith-Based and Secular Humanitarianism, 1917–1939
DOI: 10.4324/9781003467663_22025
Book Chapter
Family memories of war and displacement: primary sources for the making of an historian
2020
Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)
Aftermaths of War: Violence, Trauma, Displacement, 1815-1950
2016
Research Grant
The Invisible Farmer: Securing Australian Farm Women's History
RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS
2024
Journal article
Women’s Humanitarian Work is Never Done: Women Humanitarians and War Child Refugees in the Twentieth Century
2023
Book Chapter
We are still alive: Refugees and loneliness
DOI: 10.4324/9780429331848-352023
Book Chapter
GREEK DEPARTURES: SHIPS, STOWAWAYS, AND THE POLITICS OF RETURNS
DOI: 10.5040/9781350355514.ch-0082023
Journal article
Celebrity Humanitarianism in the 1920s: Australian Women at the League of Nations
DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2023.21705232023
Journal article
‘Dear Aunty Eleanor’: Eleanor Roosevelt, Anna Freud and the politics of emotion in letters by children in war
DOI: 10.1080/03071022.2023.2213949
RECENT PROJECTS
2016
Research Grant
The Invisible Farmer: Securing Australian Farm Women's History
2014
Internal Research Grant
Child Refugees and Australian Internationalism: 1920 to the Present
2014
Research Grant
Child Refugees and Australian Internationalism: 1920 to the Present