Jayne changed an About section.
Jayne started following the work of David Slucki, Monash University, Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation .
Jayne followed the research interests: Modern History, Cultural Heritage, and Australian Indigenous History
Jayne Please use email jper4932@uni.sydney.edu.au as my usual email address is temporarily down.
Alumna, History
About
I recently completed a PhD dissertation under the supervision of Glenda Sluga, Professor of International History at the University of Sydney. My topic of ‘Displaced Persons (1947-1952): Representations, Memory and Commemoration’ is a cultural history of the 170,000 ‘Displaced Persons’ – predominantly Central and Eastern Europeans – who arrived in Australia as International Refugee Organisation (IRO)-sponsored refugees. The thesis focuses on how representations of the DPs have been constructed and presented, in order to interrogate the DPs as a historical signifier of cultural (and particularly migration) practices. I have published on various aspects of the Displaced Persons experience, including co-authoring, with Dr Bruce Pennay from Charles Sturt University, a book Receiving Europe’s Displaced: Bonegilla Reception and Training Centre, 1947-53 (Wodonga, Vic: Parklands Albury-Wodonga, 2010).
I am currently employed as a tutor and research assistant at the University of Wollongong and University of Sydney, and as Executive Officer for the Australian Historical Association.
Future research projects include: DPs and diaspora; and post-war migrants and Indigenous connections.
I also maintain an interest in the history of Jehovah's Witnesses; my honours dissertation was entitled ‘”A National Nuisance": The Banning of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Australia in 1941’.
