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PROF JOY DAMOUSI



Contact Details

Organization: Historical Studies
Position: HEAD, SCHOOL OF HISTORICAL STUDIES
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Homepage: http://www.history.unimelb.edu.au/staff/damousi.html
Work: 83445961
Fax: 8344 7894
Room: 317W
Level: 03
Building: John Medley Building
Campus: Parkville

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts La Trobe University
Doctor of Philosophy The Australian National University

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Gender & History (journal) Editorial Board Member 01-Jan-2007
Member Women's History Review (journal) Editor 01-Jan-2005
Member Labour History (journal) Editorial Board Member 01-Jan-2001
Member Australian Historical Studies (journal) Review Editor (1998-2001) Editor (2002-2006) Editorial Board Chair (2006- ) 01-Jan-1998
Member History Council of Victoria Member of Association 01-Jan-2006
Member Australian Historical Association (AHA) Member of Executive (200-2002) Editor of AHA twice yearly Bulletin 01-Jan-2000

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA) 01-Jul-2004
Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA) 01-Jul-2004

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Prize Australian Historical Association Ernest Scott Prize for 'Freud in the Antipodes: A Cultureal History of Psychoanalysis in Australia' (UMSW Press) 2006 01-Mar-2006

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Freud in the Antipodes: a cultural history of psychoanalysis Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2003
"Elocution Lessons: A History of Elocution, Speech and the Auditory Self in Australian Cultural Life. " Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2006

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Book Chapters

Publications in 2008

Book Chapters

  • The Travelling Psychoanalyst: Andrew Peto and Transnational Explorations of Psychoanalysis in Budapest, Sydney and New York
    Year: 2008
    Book: The Transnational Unconscious: Essays in the History of Psychoanalysis and Transnationalism
    Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan(New York)
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  • Eyes Left: Psychiatrist Reginald Ellery and the Soviet Dream
    Year: 2008
    Book: Political Tourists: Australian Travellers to the Soviet Union in the 1920s-1940s
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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  • War and Commemoration: 'The Responsibility of Empire'
    Year: 2008
    Book: Australia's Empire
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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Journal Articles

  • A History of the Australian Voice and Speech in Russell Ward's The Australian Legend and Beyond
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Australian Colonial History
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 155-170
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  • An Absence of Anything Masculine: Vida Goldstein and Women's Public Speech
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Victorian Historical Journal
    Volume: 79
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 251-264
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Publications in 2007

Books

  • Talking and Listening in the Age of Modernity: Essays on the history of sound
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: ANU E Press(Acton)
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Book Chapters

  • 'The Australian has a Lazy way of Talking': Australian Character and Accent, 1920s-1930s
    Year: 2007
    Book: Talking and Listening in the Age of Modernity: Essays on the History of Sound
    Publisher: ANU E Press(Acton)
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Journal Articles

  • 'The Filthy American Twang': elocution, the advent of American 'Talkies' and Australian cultural identity
    Year: 2007
    Journal: American Historical Review
    Volume: 112
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 365-416
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  • Australian Medical Intellectuals and the Great War

    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Journal of Politics and History
    Volume: 53
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 436-450
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • ' "The Slowly Changing Status of Women": Women's Studies and Gender Studies'
    Year: 2006
    Book: Life of the Past: The Discipline of History at the University of Melbourne
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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  • Fathers and Daughters at Play
    Year: 2006
    Book: Football Fever: Moving the Goalposts
    Publisher: Maribyrnong Press(Hawthorn)
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Publications in 2005

Books

  • Freud in the Antipodies: A cultural history of psychoanalysis in Australia
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: University of New South Wales Press(Sydney)
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Book Chapters

  • Working Widowed Mothers and Welfare Inspectors in Victoria in the 1920s and 1930s
    Year: 2005
    Book: Double shift : working mothers and social change in Australia
    Publisher: Melbourne Publishing Group/Circa(Armadale)
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Journal Articles

  • Labour History in the New Millennium
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Overland
    Volume: 181
    Issue: Summer
    Page numbers: 49-52
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  • Wartime Memory and Patterns of Mourning in Australia
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Dialogue
    Volume: 24
    Issue: No. 3
    Page numbers: 19-30
    Publisher: Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia(Canberra)
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • The Emotions of History
    Year: 2004
    Book: The Historians Conscience
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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Journal Articles

  • 'Agnes Milne: The Factory Inspector as Political Agitator, 1896-1906'
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Labour History
    Volume: x
    Issue: 87
    Page numbers: 11-30
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  • Inside Footy Mania
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Meanjin
    Volume: v63
    Issue: i4, December 2004
    Page numbers: 218-225
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Publications in 2003

Books

  • History on the Couch: Essays in History and Psychoanalysis
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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Book Chapters

  • A History of Dreams: Modernity, Masculinity and Inner Life, 1920s and 1930s
    Year: 2003
    Book: History on the Couch: Essays in Psychoanalysis and History
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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  • Disorder, Invasion and Irrationality in the Federal Franchise of 1902
    Year: 2003
    Book: Selective Democracy: Race, Gender and the Australian Vote
    Publisher: Melbourne Publishing Group/Circa(Armadale)
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  • Engendering the Greek: The Shifting Representations of Greek Identity in Australian Cinema
    Year: 2003
    Book: Womenvision: Women and the Moving Image in Australia
    Publisher: Damned Publishing(St Kilda)
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  • Making the Ordinary Extraordinary in the 1950s: Explorations of Interiority and Australian Cultural History
    Year: 2003
    Book: Cultural History in Australia
    Publisher: University of New South Wales Press(Sydney)
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  • Psycholoanalysis, Histories and Identities
    Year: 2003
    Book: History on the Couch: Essays in Psychoanalysis and History
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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  • The State and the Widow: Pension Debates in the Inter-War Years
    Year: 2003
    Book: Families of a New World: Gender, Politics and State Development in a Global Context
    Publisher: Routledge(New York)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • History matters: The politics of grief and injury in Australian history
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australian Historical Studies
    Volume: 33
    Issue: 118
    Page numbers: 100-112
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Publications in 2001

Books

  • Living with the Aftermath: trauma, nostalgia and grief in post-war Australia
    Year: 2001
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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Book Chapters

  • Margaret Cuthbertson, factory inspection and the political lives of working women, 1890-1914
    Year: 2001
    Book: Working Nation: Working life and Federation, 1890-1914
    Publisher: Pluto Press(Annandale)
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