Military History Section Staff Biographies
Georgina Fitzpatrick
Georgina Fitzpatrick has been with the Military History Section since January 2009 as a Research Fellow on a joint project of the Australian War Memorial and the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. She is working on the historical context of the Japanese War Crimes Trials conducted by the Australian Army in the immediate post-war years at various locations, including Morotai, Wewak, Darwin and Rabaul.
Georgina’s doctoral thesis, undertaken at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, is entitled, “The impact of internment: experiences of those of British background interned in Australia during the Second World War”. It explores the cases of 47 men and women who were held in the same camps as internees with enemy alien background. Although they were, on the whole, interned as a precautionary measure for their political opinions, a few were placed in internment camps to control what can be regarded as their moral and criminal urges. The thesis will be submitted for examination in mid-2009.
Selected Publications
“‘A Fellow of Slogans and Attitudes’: Leslie Cahill, National Socialism and the Australia First Movement” in National Socialism in Oceania: a critical evaluation of its effect and aftermath, eds Christine Winter and Emily Turner-Graham, Peter Lange Verlag (forthcoming 2009)
“Anzac Day”, Wakefield Companion to South Australian History, Adelaide, Wakefield Press, 2002
“A sideshow in Dublin”, Wartime,14, 2001
St. Andrew's College 1894–1994: ardens sed virens, Dublin, St Andrew’s College, 1994
Trinity College and Irish Society 1914–1922, Dublin, Trinity College Quatercentenary Schools’ Liaison Committee, 1992
ANZAC Day: past and present, Canberra, Australian War Memorial, 1992
Conference, symposium, and seminar presentations
“From Arnold to Woodfield: A prosopographical A-Z of ‘British born’ internees in Australian internment camps, 1939–45”, Collective Biography conference, National Library of Australia, 9 September 2008
“Loveday internment camp 14: punishment, protection or prevention?” presented at Locating History, 14th Biennial National Conference of the Australian Historical Association, University of Melbourne, 8 July 2008.
“Partial advocacy: the Australian Council for Civil Liberties and internment: 1941 and 1942 compared”, Seminar series, History Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS), ANU, 13 September 2007
“Dislocated families in wartime Australia: the internment experience”, seminar series, History RSSS, ANU, 19 October 2006
“Leslie Cahill, National Socialism and the Australia First Movement”, conference, National Socialism in Australia: a critical evaluation of its effects in Australia and its aftermath, University of Queensland, 25–27 September 2006
“The financial impact of internment on family life: experiences of Australian political dissidents”, seminar series, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, ANU, 31 August 2006
“Internment of political dissidents: the case of Leslie Kevin Cahill”, conference, Shamrock in the Bush Galong, NSW, 5 August 2006
“The Impact of Internment on Family Life: experiences of Australian political dissidents”, presented at Genres of History, 13th biennial national conference of the Australian Historical Association, Canberra, 5 July 2006
“Internment of political dissidents in Australia (1939–45): biographical and prosopographical techniques to construct a social history”, postgraduate workshop, UsingLives, Humanities Research Centre, ANU, 9 February 2006
“Interned for transgressions – moral or political? The case of Nancy Krakouer, 1942– 1945”, seminar series, Centre for Cross Cultural Research, ANU, 15 November 2005
“Inky Stephensen’s internment experience in three Australian camps, 1942–1945” seminar series, History RSSS, ANU, 14 April 2005
“NF 1679 Adela Pankhurst Walsh: one of the forgotten political internees of World War Two Australia”, Seminar series, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, ANU, 16 November 2004
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