Mary Tomsic

Dr Mary Tomsic is Research Fellow in the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at Australian Catholic University. Her current research is on visual representations of child refugees, children’s voices in refugee literature and refugee journeys.

Her scholarly research has been published in edited collections, including, The Cambridge World History of Violence Volume 4, 1800 to the Present (Cambridge University Press, 2020 with Joy Damousi and Jordana Silverstein), Gender & Violence in Australia: Historical Perspectives (Monash University Press, 2019), Visualising Human Rights (UWA Publishing, 2018) and Children’s Voices in the Past: New Historical Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019); journals including Historical Journal (with Joy Damousi, Filippo Nelli, Anh Nguyen Austen & Alessandro Toffoli), British Educational Research Journal (with Matthew D. Zbaracki), History Australia, The History of the Family, Australian Journal of Politics and History and History Education Review (with Claire Deery). Beyond the Silver Screen: A History of Women, Filmmaking and Film Culture in Australia 1920-1990 (Melbourne University Press) is her first monograph and was published in 2017.