A/Prof. Roger Markwick
| Work Phone | (02) 4921 5172 |
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| Fax | (02) 4921 6933 |
| Roger.Markwick@newcastle.edu.au | |
| Position | Associate Professor School of Humanities and Social Science |
| 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
| Description (Code) | % |
|---|---|
| Historical Studies Not Elsewhere Classified(210399) | 70 |
| History And Archaeology Not Elsewhere Classified(219999) | 15 |
| Political Science Not Elsewhere Classified(160699) | 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 |
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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
- 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
