Dr Margaret Poulos

Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow 2007-2010




Margaret Poulos joined the Department in 2007. She received her PhD in history in 2003 (University of Sydney), for which she was awarded the Gutenberg Prize in 2004. She was based in Athens, Greece between 2000 and 2004, where she headed an Oral History Program funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Her research to date has been in the field of modern Greek history with a special interest in World War Two, and more recently, in post-war movements for democratisation. Her book on the relationship between Greek nationalism and feminism comes out in 2007.

• History of modern Greece
• Gender and national identity in European history
• History of feminism
• War and citizenship
• New social movements and movement theory, esp. May 1968 and the anti-junta student movement in Greece (1967-1974)
• Chrysa Hatzivasileiou (Central Committee of the Greek Communist Party -1940s)

• A New History of 1968: Feminism and the Student Revolts in the Colonels’ Greece

Books

Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity, New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming, September 2007

Articles & Book Chapters

‘Burdens of history: The defeat of second-wave feminism in Greece’, in Bucur, M; De Haan, F; and Daskalova, K (eds) Aspasia: International Yearbook for Women’s and Gender History in Central, Eastern and South East Europe, New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, forthcoming, March 2007