Joan Beaumont
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Joan Errington Beaumont, AM, FASSA (born 25 October 1948) is an Australian historian and academic, who specialises in foreign policy and the Australian experience of war. She is professor emerita in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University.
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Joan Beaumont | |
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Born | Joan Errington Magor (1948-10-25) 25 October 1948 (age 75) Adelaide, South Australia |
Awards | Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (1997) Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs (2012) Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History (2014) New South Wales Premier's Australian History Prize (2014) University of Southern Queensland History Book Award (2014) Asher Literary Award (2015) Member of the Order of Australia (2020) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Adelaide (BA [Hons]) King's College London (PhD) |
Thesis | Great Britain and the Soviet Union: The Supply of Munitions, 1941–1945 (1975) |
Doctoral advisor | M. L. Dockrill |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Australian National University Deakin University Monash University |
Main interests | Australian experience of war Foreign policy Memory and commemoration |
Notable works | Gull Force (1988) Broken Nation (2013) |
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