Military History Section Staff Biographies

Steven Bullard

Steve Bullard Steven joined the Military History Section in 1997 as a Senior Research Officer with the Australia–Japan Project (AJRP). He was Project Manager of the AJRP from 2002, where he was involved with the design and compilation of the project’s database and websites, and organised several international symposiums and workshops. Being a Japanese speaker, he has translated several seminar and symposium papers, and was successful in gaining a grant from the Japan Foundation to translate extracts from the Senshi sosho (War history series), the official account of the Japanese experience of the Second World War. He has also provided language assistance to other sections in the Memorial.

Steven’s PhD dissertation, completed in 2004, explored issues of nationalism and identity in Kyoto in the 1890s, the role of preservation and display of cultural artefacts, civic celebration, and the spread of modern technology through expositions.

In 2007, Steven was appointed a Senior Historian within the Military History Section. His first task is to write a volume for the Official History of Peacekeeping, Humanitarian, and Post–Cold War Operations project. This volume will document relief efforts by the Australian Defence Force, Australian Federal Police, and other government organisations, in response to natural disasters and other emergencies in our region.

Select publications

Books

(Translator) Army operations in the South Pacific area: Papua campaigns, 1942–1943, Canberra : Australian War Memorial, 2007

Blankets on the wire: the Cowra breakout and its aftermath, Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 2006.

(Edited, with Keiko Tamura) From a hostile shore: Australia and Japan at war in New Guinea , Canberra , Australian War Memorial, 2004

Celebrating Kyoto, 1895: regional and national identity in the 1,100th anniversary, the Heian Shrine and the industrial exposition , Australian National University PhD thesis, 2004

Articles

“The god of strategy”, Wartime, 39, July 2007, pp. 42–45.

“Traitor or unsung patriot?”, Wartime, 31, July 2005, pp. 56–58

“The humiliation of defeat”, Wartime, 31, July 2005, pp. 34–37

“Flying with eagles”, Wartime, 26, April 2004, pp. 41–43

“‘The great enemy of humanity’: malaria and the Japanese Medical Corps in Papua, 1942–1943”, Journal of Pacific History, 20, no. 2, 2004, pp. 203–20

“Kokoda: a Japanese tragedy”, Wartime, 20, October 2002, pp. 20–21

Conference, symposium and seminar presentations

“‘Smashing jewels’: aspects of researching and translating Japanese military history”, Australian Historical Association conference, Canberra, July 2006.

“From a hostile shore”, Asia Pacific Week, Australian National University , Canberra , February 2005

“’From a hostile shore’: Translating military history”, Literary & scholarly translations: a colloquium, National Museum of Australia , Canberra , November 2004

“Australian accounts of the Japanese at war in Papua, 1942–1943: reflections on military history and nationalism”, RSPAS seminar series, Australian National University , Canberra , September 2004

“’Sons of Nippon ’: Japanese in Australian accounts of the Pacific War”, Globalization, localization, and Japanese studies in the Asia–Pacific region , University of Sydney , Sydney , November 2003

“Japanese medical corps in the Papua campaigns, 1942–1943”, The Pacific War in Papua New Guinea : perceptions and realities , Australian National University , Canberra , August 2003.

“How do researchers and librarians view the outlook for Japanese library resources in Australia ?” panel at JSAA biennial conference , University of New South Wales , Sydney , June 2001

“Pre-1980 Japanese monographs”, Asian accounts of Australia , National Library of Australia, Canberra , March 2001

“Representing the past: inventing the future”, 12th biennial ASAA conference , University of New South Wales , Sydney , October 1998