- Historian, The University of Melbourne
Dr Jordana Silverstein is a Senior Research Fellow in the Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, in the Melbourne Law School.
A cultural historian, she is the author of 'Cruel Care: A History of Children at our Borders' (Monash University Publishing, 2023) and 'Anxious Histories: Narrating the Holocaust in Jewish Communities at the Beginning of the Twenty First Century' (Berghahn Books, 2015), and she is the co-editor of 'In the Shadows of Memory: the Holocaust and the Third Generation' (Vallentine Mitchell, 2016) and 'Refugee Journeys: Histories of Resettlement, Representation and Resistance (ANU Press, 2021).
Experience
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2021–presentSenior Research Fellow, Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, Melbourne Law School
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2014–2019Postdoctoral Research Associate, ARC Laureate Research Project, 'Child Refugees and Australian Internationalism, 1920s to the Present'
Education
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2009University of Melbourne, PhD
Research Areas
- Jewish Studies (220404)
- Culture, Gender, Sexuality (200205)
- North American History (210312)
- Australian History (Excl. Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander History) (210303)
Contact Jordana for
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- Research supervision
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria
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