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A/Prof. Roger Markwick

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Position Associate Professor
School of Humanities and Social Science
The University of Newcastle, Australia
Office MC127, McMullin

Biography

Associate Professor Roger Markwick joined The University of Newcastle in 2001, lecturing in modern European history, specialising in modern Russian and Soviet history. He is Head of the School of Humanities and Social Science. He was awarded his PhD in 1995 by the University of Sydney, where he was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Senior Research Associate. He is the author of Rewriting History in Soviet Russia: The Politics of Revisionist Historiography 1956-74 (Palgrave Macmillan 2001), which won The Alexander Nove Prize in Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies in 2001. He is co-author, with Graeme Gill, of Russia’s Stillborn Democracy? From Gorbachev to Yeltsin (Oxford University Press, 2000). More recently, he has co-authored, with Euridice Charon Cardona, Soviet Women on the Frontline in the Second World War (Palgrave Macmillan 2012). He is currently undertaking an Australian Research Council supported project on ‘Women, Stalinism, and the Soviet Home Front, 1941-45’, in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Beate Fieseler, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf. Roger Markwick has additional research and teaching interests in the nature of fascism; the Jewish Holocaust; Israel and the Middle East; colonial settler states; intellectuals, historiography and the politics of knowledge.

Qualifications

  • PhD, University of Sydney, 1995
  • Master of Arts, University of Melbourne
  • Bachelor of Arts, Australian National University
  • Diploma in Education, University of Melbourne

Research

Research keywords

  • Russian and Soviet history
  • fascism
  • historiography
  • women and war

Research expertise

Focus Area: History

Languages

  • Russian

Fields of Research

Code Description Percentage
210399 Historical Studies Not Elsewhere Classified 70
219999 History And Archaeology Not Elsewhere Classified 15
160699 Political Science Not Elsewhere Classified 15

Centres and Groups

Centre

Memberships

Body relevant to professional practice.

  • Member - Australasian Association of European Historians

Appointments

IntReader (expert reader of high international standing)
Australian Research Council (Australia) 		01/01/2006

Awards

Research Award.

2003 Alexander Nove Prize for Russian and East European Studies for 2001
British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (United Kingdom)
International prize awarded annnualy for outstanding research in Russian and East European Studies

Invitations

'We will never get to the front': Soviet Women under Arms in the Great Fatherland War, 1941-45
University of Duesseldorf, Germany (Invited Presenter)
2011

Teaching

Teaching keywords

  • Israel
  • Russian and Soviet history
  • fascism
  • historiography
  • modern European history

Courses

Published Books

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Published Books

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