
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 |
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Teaching appointment
Dates | Title | Organisation / Department |
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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 |
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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 |
Publications
For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.
Book (1 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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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 |
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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)
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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 lat... [more] © 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.
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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 withi... [more] © 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¿.
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Review (4 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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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) | ||
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Conference (13 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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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) | ||
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Other (6 outputs)
Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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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) | ||
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Grants and Funding
Summary
Number of grants | 4 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
News
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December 14, 2020
Dr Effie Karageorgos
Position
Education Focused Academic
School of Humanities and Social Science
College of Human and Social Futures
Focus area
History
Contact Details
effie.karageorgos@newcastle.edu.au | |
Phone | (02) 4055 3390 |
Links |
Personal Blogs |
Office
Room | CT216 |
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Building | CT Building |
Location | Callaghan University Drive Callaghan, NSW 2308 Australia |