Dr Effie Karageorgos

Education Focused Academic

School of Humanities and Social Science (History)

Email:effie.karageorgos@newcastle.edu.au
Phone:(02) 4055 3390

Career Summary

Biography

Effie Karageorgos is an early career historian working on the social history of war, specifically Australian experiences of conflict. She has a PhD from Flinders University, and her monograph, Australian Soldiers in South Africa and Vietnam: Words from the Battlefield, was published in 2016 by Bloomsbury Academic. Her work has explored the motivations of Australian combatants involved in the South African War of 1899-1902 and the Vietnam War from enlistment to discharge, particularly focusing on the influence of the home front on soldiers' attitudes and behaviours.

Effie has taught History and Academic Skills at Flinders University, The University of Melbourne, Deakin University and Swinburne Online. Her specialty is the study and teaching of Australian history.

She has since expanded on her past work on soldiering to focus on identity, masculinity and war trauma, publishing on this topic in History Australia, Journal of Australian Studies and Health & History. More specifically, she has explored the idea of the late nineteenth century Australian male, their role as representatives of federated Australia from 1901 and how these constructions determined treatment of war trauma emerging from the South African War.

Her current research moves into the twentieth century, considering Australian archetypal masculinity in conjunction with public, medical, military and political perceptions of combat breakdown from the Second World War till the Gulf War so as to determine the relationship between gendered interpretations of the soldier and the changing consideration of war-related trauma.

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy, Flinders University

Keywords

Conflict
Masculinity
Psychiatry
Trauma

Languages

Greek (Working)
English (Mother)

Professional Experience

UON Appointment

Title	Organisation / Department

Teaching appointment

Dates	Title	Organisation / Department
1/7/2019 - 30/11/2019	Teaching Academic	Deakin University Australia
1/2/2012 - 31/12/2019	Online Unit Coordinator	Swinburne Online Australia
1/2/2012 - 30/11/2019	Teaching Academic	The University of Melbourne Australia
1/2/2006 - 30/11/2011	Teaching Academic	Flinders University Australia

Teaching

Code	Course	Role	Duration
HIST1051	The Australian Experience School of Humanities and Social Science - Faculty of Education and Arts - The University of Newcastle	Course Convenor	3/2/2020 - 30/6/2020

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Publications

For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.

Book (1 outputs)

Year	Citation	Altmetrics	Link
2016	Karageorgos E, Australian Soldiers in South Africa and Vietnam Words from the Battlefield, Bloomsbury Publishing, 256 (2016)

Chapter (2 outputs)

Year	Citation	Altmetrics	Link
2016	Karageorgos E, 'Boer War', The SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives, SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks (2016)
2016	Karageorgos E, 'Australians in the South African War 1899-1902', Encyclopedia of African Colonial Conflicts [2 volumes], ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara (2016)

Journal article (6 outputs)

Year

Citation

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2020

Karageorgos E, 'The Bushman at War: Gendered Medical Responses to Combat Breakdown in South Africa, 1899 1902', Journal of Australian Studies, 44 18-32 (2020) [C1]

© 2020, © 2020 International Australian Studies Association. The Australians who enlisted in the South African War were representatives of the bushman ideal popularised in the late 19th century, and were thus associated with the masculine model connected to this ideal. Most men were literal bushmen, rural labourers unemployed due to widespread drought in the decade preceding the conflict. However, this model of masculinity created difficulties for soldiers who developed psychiatric disorders during their military service, as society¿s feminisation of mental illness meant that it was deemed a loss of manhood. This article examines the application of the masculine bushman ideal to Australians who developed war trauma during the South African War (1899¿1902), initially arguing that the conflict served as a testing ground for the larger-scale militarisation of the ideal from the First World War. It explores the role of military doctors in shaping diagnoses of combat breakdown while operating within limited psychological understanding and their attempts to avoid the demasculinisation¿and thus stigmatisation¿of the traumatised soldier.

DOI	10.1080/14443058.2020.1717581
Citations	Scopus - 1Web of Science - 1

2020

Karageorgos E, 'Eugenics at the Edges of Empire: New Zealand, Australia, Canada and South Africa 97-98 (2020)

2018

Karageorgos E, 'Mental Illness, Masculinity, and the Australian Soldier: Military Psychiatry from South Africa to the First World War', HEALTH AND HISTORY, 20 10-29 (2018)

2018

Karageorgos E, 'War in a White man s country : Australian perceptions of blackness on the South African battlefield, 1899-1902', History Australia, 15 323-338 (2018)

© 2018 Australian Historical Association. Australians volunteered to fight in the South African War at a time when transnational constructions of whiteness determined policy within the British Empire and its colonies towards nonwhites. However, the commencement of war in 1899 necessitated a shift in the definition of ¿other¿ to justify combat against the white Boer enemy. This article analyses late nineteenth-century settler colonialism in Australia alongside the letters and diaries of Australian South African War soldiers to demonstrate the effect of both affinities with the Boers as inhabitants of a ¿white man¿s country¿ and conventional perceptions of blackness on their reactions to the South African ¿other¿.

DOI	10.1080/14490854.2018.1452155

2014

Karageorgos E, ''Educated, Tolerant and Kindly: Australian attitudes towards British and Boer in South Africa, 1899-1902', Historia, 59 120-135 (2014)

2006

Karageorgos E, ''Never again my boy, never again': Australian Soldiers' Reactions to the South African War 1899-1902', The Flinders Journal of History and Politics, 23 100-117 (2006)

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Review (4 outputs)

Year	Citation	Altmetrics	Link
2020	Karageorgos E, 'The Long Shadow: Australia s Vietnam Veterans Since the War (2020)
2018	Karageorgos E, 'The experiences of Australian LGBT military personnel (2018)
2016	Karageorgos E, 'The Vietnam War in the twenty-first century (2016)
2007	Karageorgos E, 'Well Done, Those Men: Memoirs of a Vietnam Veteran by Barry Heard (2007)
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Conference (13 outputs)

Year	Citation	Altmetrics	Link
2018	Karageorgos E, ' Australian military psychiatry from South Africa to the First World War ', Australian military psychiatry from South Africa to the First World War , Canberra, Australia (2018)
2018	Karageorgos E, ' Psychiatric care after the First World War and the forgotten South African War veterans ', Psychiatric care after the First World War and the forgotten South African War veterans , Leeds, United Kingdom (2018)
2017	Karageorgos E, ' War trauma and colonial perceptions of insanity in Australia during the South African War, 1899-1902 ', War trauma and colonial perceptions of insanity in Australia during the South African War, 1899-1902 , Melbourne, Australia (2017)
2017	Karageorgos E, ' I regret to state my husband Henry Hughes has lost his reason : war trauma on the South African battlefield and beyond ', I regret to state my husband Henry Hughes has lost his reason : war trauma on the South African battlefield and beyond , Adelaide, Australia (2017)
2016	Karageorgos E, 'War in a white man s country : Australian perceptions of blackness on the South African battlefield, 1899-1902 ', War in a white man s country : Australian perceptions of blackness on the South African battlefield, 1899- 1902 , Ballarat, Australia (2016)
2015	Karageorgos E, ' Australian soldiers and the other in South Africa, 1899-1902 ', Australian soldiers and the other in South Africa, 1899-1902 , Stellenbosch, South Africa (2015)
2015	Karageorgos E, ' Bad behaviour: morale and diversions on the South African battlefield, 1899-1902 ', Bad behaviour: morale and diversions on the South African battlefield, 1899-1902 , Sydney, Australia (2015)
2015	Karageorgos E, ' Hard, healthy and hot : Australian Soldiers on the South African Battlefield, 1899-1902 ', Hard, healthy and hot : Australian Soldiers on the South African Battlefield, 1899-1902 , Newcastle, Australia (2015)
2014	Karageorgos E, ' Self-censorship, self-defence and morale: the shifting ties between the Australian home front and fighting men in the Second Boer War and Vietnam War ', Self-censorship, self-defence and morale: the shifting ties between the Australian home front and fighting men in the Second Boer War and Vietnam War , Brisbane, Queensland (2014)
2014	Karageorgos E, ''"Agreeable, active and attractive : Australians attitudes towards combat in South Africa, 1899-1902 ', Agreeable, active and attractive : Australians attitudes towards combat in South Africa, 1899-1902 , London, United Kingdom (2014)
2014	Karageorgos E, ' Educated, tolerant and kindly : Australian attitudes towards British and Boer on the South African battlefield, 1899-1902 ,', Educated, tolerant and kindly : Australian attitudes towards British and Boer on the South African battlefield, 1899-1902 ,, Durban, South Africa (2014)
2013	Karageorgos E, ''"Wild Boers and dignified Africans: Australian soldiers perceptions of the other in South Africa, 1899-1902 ', Wild Boers and dignified Africans: Australian soldiers perceptions of the other in South Africa, 1899- 1902 , Fremantle, Western Australia (2013)
2010	Karageorgos E, ' Loyal to the Empire? An alternative view of Australian soldiers in the South African War, 1899-1902 ', Loyal to the Empire? An alternative view of Australian soldiers in the South African War, 1899-1902 , Bristol, United Kingdom (2010)
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Other (6 outputs)

Year	Citation	Altmetrics	Link
2021	Karageorgos E, Boyle A, 'Australian media is failing to cover domestic violence in the right way: new research', The Conversation (2021)
2020	Karageorgos E, 'Returning Home: The Traumatised Male Soldier from Federation to the First World War and Beyond', (2020) [O1]
2018	Karageorgos E, 'An urgent rethink is needed on the idealised image of the ANZAC digger', The Conversation (2018)
2017	Karageorgos E, 'Words from the Battlefield, Public Lecture at the Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne.', (2017) [O1]
2013	Karageorgos E, 'Birth of a Nation: A History of Greece's Independence', Neos Kosmos: Neos Kosmos (2013)
2012	Karageorgos E, ''Operation Domestic' - An Unexplored Avenue of Greek Migration', Neos Kosmos (2012)
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Grants and Funding

Summary

Number of grants	4
Total funding	$161,040

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20204 grants / $161,040

City Lights for Social Change$87,280

Funding body: Newcastle City Council

Funding body	Newcastle City Council
Project Team	Associate Professor Trisha Pender, Doctor Kathleen McPhillips, Doctor Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan, Doctor Effie Karageorgos, Doctor Jessica Ford, Doctor Kcasey McLoughlin
Scheme	Special Business Rate – City Centre/Darby Street Program
Role	Investigator
Funding Start	2020
Funding Finish	2021
GNo	G2001185
Type Of Funding	C2210 - Aust StateTerritoryLocal - Own Purpose
Category	2210
UON	Y

Gender-Based Violence Program (GBVP)$70,000

Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, The University of Newcastle, Australia

Funding body	Faculty of Education and Arts, The University of Newcastle, Australia
Project Team	A/Prof Patricia Pender (Lead); Dr Kath McPhillips; Dr Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan; Dr Jessica Ford; Dr Effie Karageorgos; Dr Kcasey McLoughlin.
Scheme	Research Programs Pilot Scheme
Role	Investigator
Funding Start	2020
Funding Finish	2021
GNo
Type Of Funding	Internal
Category	INTE
UON	N

2020 Faculty of Education and Arts Strategic Application Support Scheme$2,500

Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle

Funding body	Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Project Team	Dr Effie Karageorgos
Scheme	2020 FEDUA Strategic Application Support Scheme
Role	Lead
Funding Start	2020
Funding Finish	2020
GNo
Type Of Funding	Internal
Category	INTE
UON	N

2020 Faculty of Education and Arts Strategic Early Advice and Feedback Scheme$1,260

Funding body: Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle

Funding body	Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle
Project Team	Dr Effie Karageorgos
Scheme	2020 FEDUA Strategic Early Advice and Feedback Scheme
Role	Lead
Funding Start	2020
Funding Finish	2020
GNo
Type Of Funding	Internal
Category	INTE
UON	N

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