A/Prof. Roger Markwick

Biography

Dr Roger Markwick joined The University of Newcastle in 2001 where he lectures in modern European history. He is a graduate of the Australian National, Melbourne and Sydney Universities. In 1995 he was awarded his PhD 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 2003. He is also the co-author, with Graeme Gill, of Russia's Stillborn Democracy? From Gorbachev to Yeltsin (Oxford, 2000). He is currently co-authoring a research monograph on Women, War and the Stalinist State, 1941-45. He has additional research and teaching interests in the nature of fascism, the Holocaust, Israel and the Middle East, 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

Centres and Groups

Centre

• Humanities Research Institute

Memberships

Body relevant to professional practice.

• Member - Australasian Association of European Historians

Appointments

Awards

Research Award.

Invitations

Teaching

Teaching keywords

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

Courses

• HIST1080 - Europe and the World
• HIST3455 - The Russian Revolution
• HIST3672 - Israel and the Middle East: roots of the current conflict
• HIST3640 - Fascism, War and Genocide, 1900-1945