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Donna-Lee Frieze

Research Fellow, Deakin University

Donna is a Genocide Studies scholar, specializing in memory and aftermath studies. Her research focuses on the Stolen Generations, the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, and the Bosnian genocide, with a theoretical interest in filmic representations of genocide, testimony, and the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. Donna is the editor and transcriber of Raphael Lemkin’s autobiography Totally Unofficial (Yale University Press, 2013), which has been translated into several languages. Donna has been at Deakin for all her academic career, teaching undergraduate units on the Holocaust and Genocide Studies and coursework to graduate students.

For the past 15 years, Donna has been involved with teaching the undergraduate history unit The Holocaust at Deakin. For 10 years, she also taught a graduate unit on Genocide. Donna also has been involved in units on Sport in History, the Cold War, the French Revolution, and Human Rights and International Law. Donna also teaches coursework to graduate students and, along with Dr Kate Hall, regularly gives workshops and seminars to graduate students.