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Professor Joy Damousi FBA

Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2026
Subjects
History
Sections
Modern History from 1850

Summary

Joy Damousi's research interests are the aftermaths of war in the 20th century; humanitarianism, migration and refugee history; cultural history of war; memory and the history of emotions; gender and women’s history; and the history of psychoanalysis.

Current post

Australian Catholic University Dean of Arts and Director, Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences

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