Contributors

ADAM BERRYMAN

 

Adam Berryman is a graduate of La Trobe University and was the 2006 Australian postgraduate visiting fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. He previously taught European politics at the University of Melbourne and is now based at The Australian National University, where he is a visiting scholar at the National Europe Centre in the Research School of Humanities. Adam’s research interests include European integration, migration and multiculturalism in contemporary Europe.

VESNA DRAPAC

 

Vesna Drapac teaches modern European history at the University of Adelaide. Her research interests include social, cultural and religious responses to war and occupation in Hitler’s Europe and comparative historiographies of World War II. She also works on the history of Croatian immigration to Australia. Her first book, War and Religion: Catholics in the churches of occupied Paris, was published in 1998 and her forthcoming book, Constructing Yugoslavia: A transnational history, is contracted to Palgrave.

DORA HORVATH

 

Dora Horvath is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne and holds a Masters Degree in International Relations from the Corvin University, Budapest, Hungary. Her research interests include cosmopolitanism and postmodernism, citizenship and multiculturalism, rhetorical representations of belonging and European integration. She has extensive experience in grant and project development and management in the education and the private business sectors. She is currently the centre coordinator of the National Europe Centre in the Research School of Humanities at The Australian National University.

STEFAN MARKOWSKI

 

Dr Stefan Markowski lectures at the School of Business, the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy (UNSW@ADFA), Canberra. He graduated from the University of Warsaw and holds a PhD from the London School of Economics, where he started his professional career as a lecturer in economics. In the United Kingdom, Stefan also worked as a professional researcher (Centre for Environmental Studies) and an economic consultant (Roger Tym and Partners). In 1986, he was appointed principal economist at the Bureau of Industry Economics in Canberra. He migrated to Australia in 1988 to join UNSW@ADFA, where he specialises in logistics, technology management, strategic procurement, industry and defence economics. He also continues to advise public and private organisations on economic and management issues. Stefan’s most recent publications focus on defence industry and trade, procurement and small arms proliferation. His current interest in migration follows his earlier work on international factor mobility and foreign direct investment.

KATE MITCHELL

 

Dr Kate Mitchell holds a PhD in literary studies from the University of Melbourne and a BA (Hons) in English and history from The Australian National University. She is currently a visiting fellow at the National Europe Centre in the Research School of Humanities at The Australian National University and teaches within the College of Arts and Social Sciences. Her research is focused on nineteenth and twentieth-century literary and cultural history, with a particular interest in neo-Victorian fiction and historical recollection in fictional narratives. She has published articles that examine the representation of history and historical recollection in neo-Victorian novels by Graham Swift, A. S. Byatt, Helen Humphreys and Gail Jones. Her first monograph, Victorian Afterimages, will be published by Palgrave in late 2009.

MARK NOLAN

 

Dr Mark Nolan (BSc [Hons], LLB, PhD [ANU]) is a senior lecturer at the College of Law, The Australian National University. After researching and teaching social psychology at the School of Psychology at The Australian National University, Mark joined the ANU College of Law in 2002 and researches and teaches law (primarily criminal law and military discipline law) and interdisciplinary legal psychology. Mark designed and teaches The Australian National University’s first Law and Psychology course to law students. His PhD in social psychology was an empirical study of social identity, perceived injustice and the use of human rights law. Other research interests include criminal law and procedure, inter-group relations, justice, counter-terrorism law and procedure and comparative law including Japanese jury reforms.

KIM RUBENSTEIN

 

Kim Rubenstein is Professor and Director of the Centre for International and Public Law at the ANU College of Law. A graduate of Melbourne and Harvard Universities, her research concentrates on citizenship law, nationality and women and constitutional law. Before becoming an academic, Kim practised as a solicitor and she has appeared during her academic career in several High Court citizenship matters. Kim edited the collection Individual, Community, Nation: 50 years of Australian citizenship (Australian Scholarly Publishing 2000) and is the author of Australian Citizenship Law in Context (Lawbook Company 2002). In 2008, she was appointed a member of the independent committee reviewing the Australian Citizenship Test, which reported to the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship with suggestions for reform.

JULIE THORPE

 

Dr Julie Thorpe holds a BA and PhD from the University of Adelaide. She has lectured in the history programs at the University of Adelaide and at The Australian National University. In 2007, she was awarded a visiting scholarship to the National Europe Centre at The Australian National University and currently holds a joint postdoctoral fellowship with The Australian National University and the University of Konstanz. Her research interests include nineteenth and twentieth-century Central European history, nationalism, political culture and fascism in Austria. Her first monograph, about nationalism in the Austro-fascist state (1933–38), is under contract to Manchester University Press. She is currently working on a project that focuses on wartime refugees in the Austro-Hungarian Empire during World War I.