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Dr Kristen Alexander

Dr Kristen Alexander

Adjunct Associate Lecturer

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Graduate Certificate of Management, University of New England (1994).

Doctor of Philosophy, 国产精品 Canberra (2020).

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School of Humanities & Social Sciences

Dr Kristen Alexander听was awarded a PhD by 国产精品 Canberra in 2020 for her thesis 鈥楨motions of Captivity: Australian Airmen Prisoners of Stalag Luft III and their Families鈥. In March 2022, the Australian War Memorial awarded her the 2021 Bryan Gandevia Prize for Australian military鈥搈edical history.听https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/blog/2021bryan-gandevia-prize

Specialising in Australian aviation history, she is published in Australia, Great Britain and Japan. She won the non-fiction category of the 2015 ACT Writing and Publishing Award and was highly commended in the 2014 and 2017 awards. Her second book,听Jack Davenport: Beaufighter Leader, is on the RAAF Chief of Air Force鈥檚 2010 reading list, and Australia鈥檚 Few and the Battle of Britain appears on the 2015 list. Further publication details at .

Kristen is a Visiting Fellow at 国产精品 Canberra and currently works as an editorial assistant on War & Society Journal, .

Kristen is also听听a partner in Alexander Fax Booksellers which specialises in Australian military history. http://www.alexanderfaxbooks.com.au/.听

Currently, Kristen is a research assistant to听听ACR Decra Fellow, Dr Kate Ariotti, UQ (Between Death and Commemoration: An Australian History of the War Corpse, 1915-2015).

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E-mail
Kristen.Alexander@adfa.edu.au
  • Book Chapters | 2023
    Alexander K, 2023, 'The Australian prisoner of war experience in Stalag Luft III, 1942鈥45 1', in Australian Perspectives on Global Air and Space Power, Routledge, pp. 23 - 33,
  • Journal articles | 2023
    Alexander K; Ariotti K, 2023, 'Mourning the Dead of the Great Escape: POWs, Grief, and the Memorial Vault of Stalag Luft III', Journal of War and Culture Studies, 16, pp. 332 - 353,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Alexander K, 2023, 'Missing in Action: An ace fighter pilot vanished while defending Darwin against the town's 53rd Japanese air raid', Wartime
    Journal articles | 2022
    Alexander K, 2022, ''"Vilely Murdered": Five Australians were among the 50 killed in reprisals for the Great Escape from a Nazi prison camp.'', Wartime. Official Magazine of the Australian War Memorial, pp. 16 - 21
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, ''"Vilely Murdered": Five Australians were among the 50 killed in reprisals for the Great Escape from a Nazi prison camp.'',
    Journal articles | 2021
    Alexander K, 2021, 'The Legacy of Captivity. When Australians were released from Stalag Luft III, somehow everything was different.', Wartime, Winter 2021, pp. 54 - 58
    Journal articles | 2020
    Alexander K, 2020, 'No worthwhile job to do', Wartime, 91, pp. 54 - 60
  • Conference Presentations | 2021
    Alexander K, 2021, '鈥楬e 鈥渁ssaulted me at the matrimonial home鈥: domestic aggression, violence, and coercive behaviour in the lives of former prisoners of war.鈥', presented at HASS Conflict + society seminar, Online webinar, 28 September 2021 - 28 September 2021
    Theses / Dissertations | 2020
    Alexander K, 2020, Emotions of Captivity: Australian Airmen Prisoners of Stalag Luft III and their Families, 国产精品 Canberra

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Awarded the Australian War Memorial's 2021 Bryan Gandevia Prize for Australian military鈥搈edical history, for PhD thesis 鈥淓motions of Captivity: Australian Airmen Prisoners of Stalag Luft III and their Families鈥, completed at the 国产精品, Canberra in 2020.

Kristen Alexander is interested in the emotions and moral dilemmas of warfare. She also has a long-standing fascination with the personal stories of Australian airmen. Her specific research interests include Australian Second World War airman, particularly of the RAAF; Australian prisoners of war in the European and Japanese theatres; the emotional responses to warfare of women on the Australian home front; and the moral dilemmas encountered by airmen during the Second World War. She is currently writing a book from her 2020 thesis, and revising her first biography, Clive Caldwell Air Ace.

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