I am an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Languages, and I teach and write on transnational histories of migration, displacement, refugees and the family, with a current focus on the Displaced Persons (DPs) who came to Australia via Europe and China. My recent book, Destination Elsewhere: Displaced Persons and the Quest to Leave Postwar Europe after World War Two, is published with Cornell University Press, 2021.
Experience
2021–present
Associate professor, University of New South Wales
Education
2004
University of Sydney, PhD
Publications
2014
Representing the Past and the Meaning of Home in Péter Forgács’s Private Hungary, Laura Rascaroli, Gwenda Young and Barry Monahan (eds),Amateur Filmmaking: the Home Movie, the Archive and the Web
2014
The Somerton Man: A Mystery in Four Acts, , ABC Radio National, HIndsight
2014
Industry and sunshine: Australia as home in the displaced persons’ camps of postwar Europe, History Australia 11 (1)
2012
Aboriginal Women and Asian Men: a maritime history of 'color' in white Australia, Signs: Journal of Women and Culture in Society, 37:3
2011
Soft Histories: Making history on Australian television, History Australia, Vol. 8, No. 1,
2010
The Somerton Man: An unsolved history, Cultural Studies Review, Vol. 16, No. 2
2010
The Ties that Bind: Australia, Hungary and the case of Károly Zentai , Patterns of Prejudice, Vol 44, No. 3
2005
Troubled Waters: Borders, Boundaries and Possession in the Timor Sea, Allen and Unwin