Membership and Supervision
Membership of the War, State and Community group is open to any member of academic staff attributed researcher or any research student within the Faculty of Arts at the University of Wollongong. There is no formal membership process. We encourage diversity of views and collaboration on projects.
In 2005 the group will be hosting fortnightly meetings discussing readings, presenting work in progress and giving research students the opportunity to present their work.
Current members include:
Current Doctoral Candidates and Research Topics
- Joakim Eidenfalk, Dimensions at Australian Foreign Policy Foundation: East Timor and the Solomon Islands
- Karl James, The Final Campaigns: Bougainville 1944-45
- John Kwok: The Politics of the Eight Division, Malaya and Singapore
- Rosemary Montgomery: Australian Girl Readers, Feminities and Feminism in the Second World War: A Study of Subjectivity and Agency
- Yong Huei (Teddy) Sim: The Portuguese Overseas Council and the Estado da India 1707-1735
- Richard Sims: What makes a state viable and what are the measures of success? A comparison of Brunei, East Timor and Nauru with Singapore
- Jan Twomey: Australian Nurses and Australia’s Asian Wars 1941-1975
- Linda Wade, “By Diggers Defended, By Victorians Mended” Commemorating Australians at Villers-Bretonneux
- Nathan Wise: A Working Man’s Hell: Work and Leisure in Peace and War
Completed Supervisions
PhD 2000-2004
2004
- Ian Willis: The Women’s Voluntary Services: A Study of War and Volunteering in Camden, 1939-1945
- John Bentley: Champion of Anzac: Sir Brudenell White, the First Australian Imperial Force and the Emergence of Australian Military Culture, 1914-1918
- Konstantin Sheiko: Lomonosov’s Bastards: Russian pseudo History and Nationalism
2003
- Simon Leonard: Black, White, Brindle: Assumptions, Attitudes and Ideology in Policy and Pedagogy for the Education of Gifted Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students
- Kristy Muir, The Hidden Cost of War: The Psychological Effects of the Second World Ware and Indonesian Confrontation on Australian Veterans and Their Families
Apart from PhD supervison, the members of War, State and Community have contributed to the successful completion of a large number of 4 th years honours theses over the years. The list below is selected from the range of topics supervised recently by WSC members.
WSC related Honours Theses topics
2004
- Jenni Hawksley: ‘Days of Tears and Longing’: War, Grief and Memory in the Illawarra 1914-1925
- Michael Molkentin: Culture, Class and Experience in the Australian Flying Corps
- Emma Sekuless: She wears her hat with a sort of reckless abandon: Testing the hypothesis of female mateship through case studies of women's social interaction
- Maria Fatima de Viera: Justice for the Victims: The Special Panels and Reconciliation in East Timor
2003
- Moya Collet: ‘Influence but not Interference’: France and the Cote d’Ivoire Civil War of 2002-2003
- John Kwok: The Lion Within: The Military in the Development of Singapore
- Nathan Wise: ‘ Playing Soldiers’: Sydney Private School Boys and the First World War
2002
- Bonnieanna Mitchell: Historical Narratives and Nationally Imagined Boundaries: Constructing East Timor’s co-Official Language Policy
- Chris Nees: Aspects of War: A Study of Six Anzac Soldiers During the Great War
2001
- Tanith Reardon: Nurses and Diggers: Gender and the Prisoner of War Experience
Master of Arts (Research) in Progress
- Bryce Fraser, Militiamen and Kokoda
The Master of Arts (International Relations) Program also offers the possibility of research projects of Honours thesis length (15,000-20,000 words). Certain of these are have also been supervised successfully by members of WSC.
2003
Matilde Johansson: Problems of Peacekeeping and the “ Congo Question”: How External and Internal World Order and World Political Order Affected UN Peacekeeping in Africa’s ‘Heart of Darkness’
Matilde Johansson The League of Nations, the United Nations and the Iraqi Missile Crises: will the UN Security Council be able to maintain international peace and security?
Current MA research projects (2004/2005) include:
Claudia Carr: Jemaah Islamiah and the prospects for a pan-Islamic state in South East Asia
David Gobbitt: The Iranian state and US foreign policy 1965-2004
Michelle Goss The Plano Columbia and US foreign policy
If you would like to write a thesis on any aspect of war, states or the effects of wars on communities then please examine the Faculty’s staff home page and contact the person whose interests most clearly approximate yours.
If you need some advice on potential supervisors in this area, please speak to the WSC research group coordinator.
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