Professor Joan Beaumont

BA (Hons) (Adelaide), PhD (London)

Elected: 1997
Discipline: History   (Panel C)

Specialisation: War, memory, and commemoration; Australia in the two world wars; prisoners of war

Professor Joan Beaumont is Professor of History, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University.  She was formerly Dean of Education and Director of the Faculty of Arts, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences (2008-11), and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Alfred Deakin Professor, Deakin University (1998-2008).  Her research interests are in the history of the first and second world wars, especially Australia's experience of war; prisoners of war; diplomatic history; international humanitarian law; and history and memory.  Her publications include the critically acclaimed Broken Nation: Australians and the Great War (Allen & Unwin, 2013), winner of the 2014 NSW Premier's Prize (Australian History) and shortlisted for the 2014 Prime Minister's Literary Award (Australian History), 2014 WA Premier's Prize (non-fiction) and the 2014 Council for the Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences Prize for a Book. She is President of the International Committee for the History of the Second World War (CISH).

Key appointments

Member of the Education and Curriculum subcommittee of the Anzac Centenary Advisory Board, 2012

Awards

Fellow of Australian Institute of International Affairs

 

Publications

 

 

 

Contact

Email: joan.beaumont [at] anu.edu.au
Phone BH: 02 61251109
Mobile: 0418 376 909