Roger Markwick

Biography

"Professor Roger Markwick joined The University of Newcastle in 2001, lecturing in modern European history, specialising in modern Russian and Soviet history. He is Head of the School of Humanities and Social Science. Markwick was awarded his PhD in 1995 by the University of Sydney, where he was a Postdoctoral Fellow and Senior Research Associate. He is the author of Rewriting History in Soviet Russia: The Politics of Revisionist Historiography 1956-74 (Palgrave Macmillan 2001), which won The Alexander Nove Prize in Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies in 2001. He also co-authored, with Graeme Gill, of Russia’s Stillborn Democracy? From Gorbachev to Yeltsin (Oxford University Press, 2000). More recently, Markwick co-authored, with Euridice Charon-Cardona, Soviet Women on the Frontline in the Second World War (Palgrave Macmillan 2012). Markwick is currently undertaking an Australian Research Council (ARC) supported project on ‘Women, Stalinism, and the Soviet Home Front, 1941-45’, in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Beate Fieseler, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf. His additional research and teaching interests are in the nature of fascism; the Jewish Holocaust; Israel and the Middle East; colonial settler states; intellectuals, historiography and the politics of knowledge."

Research Interest

History and Archaeology , Political Science , Historical Studies