A/Pr Jayne Persian
Name | A/Pr Jayne Persian |
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Email Address | jayne.persian@unisq.edu.au |
Job Title | Associate Professor (History) |
Qualifications | PhD Sydney |
Department | School of Humanities and Communication |
Affiliations | Centre for Heritage and Culture |
ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0651-4099 |
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Biography
Jayne Persian is a historian predominantly of Central and Eastern Europe displaced persons, many of whom migrated to Australia in the post-war period. Co-Chief Investigator on a 2022-25 ARC Discovery Project: Russian Immigrants and Anti-Communism in Cold War Australia, 1946-1966. Author of Fascists in Exile: Postwar Displaced Persons in Australia (Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right, 2023). Author of Beautiful Balts: From Displaced Persons to New Australians (NewSouth Publishing, 2017), shortlisted for the Australian Historical Association's W. K. Hancock Prize 2018, the Prime Minister's Literary Awards Prize for Australian History 2018, and the Queensland Literary Awards USQ History Book Award 2018. Co-editor of Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia (Routledge, 2022). Co-Chief Investigator on a 2016-19 ARC Discovery Project: Displacement and Resettlement: Russian and Russian-speaking Jewish displaced persons arriving in Australia via the ‘China’ route in the wake of the Second World War. Co-founder of Australian Migration History Network: amigrationhn.wordpress.com.
Employment
Position | Organisation | From | To |
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Senior Lecturer, History | University of Southern Queensland | 2016 |
Expertise
Australian history, migration history, displaced persons, oral history, memory and commemoration, diaspora, transnational history, social history, political history, cultural history, fascism, far right, Holocaust.
Teaching
HIS1000 World History to 1500CE
HIS1005 Introduction to Australian History
HIS2007 Private Lives, Public Histories
HIS3002 Total War: World War II and the Twentieth Century
HMT3002 Independent Study Project: History
Fields of Research
- 430302. Australian history
- 430308. European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
- 430319. Migration history
Professional Membership
Professional Membership | Year |
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Australian Historical Association | |
Australian Migration History Network | |
Australasian Association for European History | |
International Australian Studies Association |
Project title | Details | Year |
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Russian Immigrants and Anti-Communism in Cold War Australia, 1946-1966 | ARC Discovery Project | 2022 |
Displacement and Resettlement: Russian and Russian-speaking Jewish displaced persons arriving in Australia via the ‘China’ route in the wake of the Second World War | ARC Discovery Project | 2016 |
Date | Name | Awarding organisation | Underpinning research |
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2018 | W. K. Hancock Prize 2018 (Shortlisted) | Australian Historical Association | Beautiful balts: from displaced persons to new Australians |
2018 | Prime Minister's Literary Awards Prize for Australian History (Shortlisted) | Office for the Arts | Beautiful balts: from displaced persons to new Australians |
2018 | Queensland Literary Awards USQ History Book Award (Shortlisted) | Queensland Arts | Beautiful balts: from displaced persons to new Australians |