Mia Martin Hobbs

Experience

• 2021–present
  Research Fellow, Deakin University
• 2019–2021
  Honorary Fellow, University of Melbourne
• 2018–2019
  Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Melbourne
• 2015–2018
  PhD Candidate, University of Melbourne

Education

• 2018 
  University of Melbourne, Doctor of Philosophy
• 2013 
  University of Melbourne, Bachelor of Arts with Honours

Publications

• 2025
  The Rise of National Security in the 1930s: An Australian Case Study', Journal of Contemporary History
• 2025
  Imperial Nostalgia in Australian Defence Policy in the 21st Century, Journal of Australian Studies
• 2025
  We, to them, are their heroes": narratives of rescue in white Australian veterans' memories of the Vietnamese, Australian Journal of Politics & History
• 2023
  Healing Journeys: Veterans, Trauma, and the Return to Vietnam, Journal of American History
• 2022
  Veteran Reflections: Legacies of War in Vietnam at Peace, Vietnam War in the Pacific World, University of North Carolina
• 2022
  Calamity or commodity? Conceptualising security in the nuclear debate in Fraser’s Australia, History Australia
• 2022
  Why soldiers commit war crimes - and what we can do about it, Lessons from History: Leading Historians Tackle Australia's Greatest Challenge, NewSouth
• 2021
  Return to Vietnam: An Oral History of American and Australian Veterans' Journeys, Cambridge University Press
• 2021
  (Un)naming: Agency, Anonymity, and Ethics in Oral Histories with Veteran-Narrators, Oral History Review
• 2018
  “We went and did an Anzac job”: Memory, myth, and the Anzac Digger in Vietnam, Australian Journal of Politics and History

Grants and Contracts

• 2020
  History and Policy Award

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  Contemporary Histories Research Group

• 2019
  Freilich Project Small Grant Scheme

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  Herbert and Valmae Freilich Project for the Study of Bigotry

• 2018
  Gilbert Postdoctoral Career Development Fellowship

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  University of Melbourne

• 2018
  AHA-Copyright Agency Early Career Mentorship Scheme

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  Australian Historical Society - Copyright Agency

Professional Memberships

• Oral History Victoria
• Australian Historical Association
• Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations
• Fellow of the Royal Historical Society