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Email

j.damousi@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Professor- Historical Studies
School of Historical and Philosophical Studies
Education
PhD
The Australian National University
Bachelors Degree
La Trobe University
ORCID

0000-0002-5366-253X

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/ceaf195
  • 2025

    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.70006
  • 2025

    Book Chapter

    Family memories of war and displacement
    DOI: 10.7765/9781526183033.00015
  • 2025

    Book Chapter

    Medical Missionaries and the Humanitarian Subject: The American Women’s Hospital, Faith-Based and Secular Humanitarianism, 1917–1939
    DOI: 10.4324/9781003467663_2
  • 2025

    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
Joy Damousi

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2019
University of Melbourne
2006
Ernest Scott Prize for 'Freud in the Antipodes: A Cultureal History of Psychoanalysis in Australia' (UMSW Press) 2006 Australian Historical Association
2004
Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA)
2004
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA)

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: 10.4324/9780429331848-35
  • 2023

    Book Chapter

    GREEK DEPARTURES: SHIPS, STOWAWAYS, AND THE POLITICS OF RETURNS
    DOI: 10.5040/9781350355514.ch-008
  • 2023

    Journal article

    Celebrity Humanitarianism in the 1920s: Australian Women at the League of Nations
    DOI: 10.1080/14780038.2023.2170523
  • 2023

    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

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