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Assoc Prof Jayne Persian

Assoc Prof Jayne Persian
Name Jayne Persian
Pronoun She/Her/Hers
Position Associate Professor (History)
Section School of Humanities and Communication
Office Q232
Location Toowoomba Campus
Phone +61 7 4631 2532
Extension 2532
Email
Qualifications PhD Sydney
Homepage https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0003-0651-4099
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Biography

Jayne Persian is a historian predominantly of Central and Eastern Europe displaced persons, many of whom migrated to Australia in the post-war period.

Author of Fascists in Exile: Post-War Displaced Persons in Australia (Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right, 2024).

Co-Chief Investigator on a 2022-25 ARC Discovery Project: Russian Immigrants and Anti-Communism in Cold War Australia, 1946-1966.

Co-editor of Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia (Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right, 2023).

Author of Beautiful Balts: From Displaced Persons to New Australians (Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2017), shortlisted for the Australian Historical Association's W. K. Hancock Prize 2018, the Prime Minister's Literary Awards Prize for Australian History 2018, and the Queensland Literary Awards USQ History Book Award 2018.

Co-founder of Australian Migration History Network: amigrationhn.wordpress.com.

Research Career


  • Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) ( 210303 )
  • Australian History ( 430302 )
  • Historical Studies ( 430300 )
  • Migration History ( 430319 )
  • European History (excl. British ( 430308 )

Australian history, migration history, displaced persons, fascism, Holocaust, oral history, memory and commemoration, diaspora, transnational history, social history, political history, cultural history.


Founder & Executive, Australian Migration History Network
Australasian Association for European History
Australian Historical Association
International Australian Studies Association


State Library of Queensland, Fellowship & Literary Awards Judge


  • Centre for Heritage and Culture (CHC)

Teaching


HIS1000 World History to 1500CE
HIS1005 Introduction to Australian History
HIS2007 Private Lives, Public Histories
HIS3002 Total War: World War II and the Twentieth Century

I am able to supervise postgraduate projects in Australian history, migration history, displaced persons, fascism, the Holocaust, oral history, memory and commemoration, diaspora, transnational history, social history, political history, cultural history, religious history.


19 Years

Supervision


  • Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) ( 210303 )
  • Australian History ( 430302 )
  • Historical Studies ( 430300 )
  • Migration History ( 430319 )
  • European History (excl. British ( 430308 )