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Conjoint Professor of Modern European History, University of Newcastle

ROGER MARKWICK is Conjoint Professor of Modern European History, and a former Head of the School of Humanities and Social Science, the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is the co-author of Soviet Women on the Frontline in the Second World War (Palgrave-McMillan, 2012), which was shortlisted for the 2013 NSW Premier’s History Awards. His book Rewriting History in Soviet Russia: The Politics of Revisionist Historiography in the Soviet Union, 1956-1974 (Palgrave-McMillan, 2001) won the Alexander Nove Prize in Russian, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Studies for 2001. His latest research is on Soviet women on the home front during the Second World War. His additional research interests are in the nature of fascism; the Jewish Holocaust; Israel and the Middle East; colonial settler states; intellectuals, historiography and the politics of knowledge.

Experience

  • –present
    Associate Professor of Modern European History and Head of the School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle

Education

  • 1995 
    The University of Sydney, PhD, Government