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Professor Joy Damousi AM FBA FASSA FAHA

Dean of Arts/Director of the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences

Areas of expertise: gender and women's history; history of emotions; transnationalism; refugee; humanitarianism and migration history; war and memory, aftermaths of war.

HDR Supervisor accreditation status: Full

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-5366-253X

Phone: +61 3 9953 3721

Email: [email protected]

Location: ACU Melbourne Campus

Professor Joy Damousi is Director of the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences and Dean of Arts. She is an award-winning scholar of memory and war, the history of emotions, and migration history in relation to refugees, humanitarianism and internationalism. She is one of Australia's most distinguished historians and public intellectuals, and a leader in the humanities in Australia and internationally. She is the author of numerous books, including The Labour of Loss: Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia (Cambridge, 1999); Living with the Aftermath: Trauma, Nostalgia and Grief in Post-war Australia (Cambridge, 2001); Freud in the Antipodes: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in Australia (UNSW Press, 2005; winner of the Ernest Scott Prize) and Colonial Voices: A Cultural History of English in Australia 1840-1940 (Cambridge 2010). Her current research includes war, trauma and post-war Greek migration to Australia; sound and the two world wars; and aftermaths of war. She has promoted and fostered PhD students throughout her career and supervised 75 PhD students to completion – 52 as primary supervisor and 23 as co-supervisor. Joy was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2022 Queen's Birthday Honours in recognition of her significant service to social sciences and the humanities, to history, and to tertiary education. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Australian Historical Association in 2022 for her distinguished contribution to ‘historical scholarship, mentoring, journal editing, and academic leadership in history and the humanities more generally’. In 2026, Joy was elected to the British Academy's International Fellowship – a coveted honour – for her pioneering work in the history of migration, refugees and humanitarianism, gender history, and the legacies of war. 

Publications

Single authored books

• DAMOUSI, J., The Humanitarians: Child War Refugees and Australian Humanitarianism in a Transnational World, 1919-1975, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: i+347 pp. (2022).
• DAMOUSI, J., Memory and Migration in the Shadow of War: Australia's Greek Immigrants after World War II and the Greek Civil War, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 1+261 pp. (2015).  
• DAMOUSI, J., Colonial Voices: A Cultural History of English in Australia, 1840-1940, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: i+315 pp. (2010).
• DAMOUSI, J., Freud in the Antipodes: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in Australia, UNSW Press, Sydney: 1+374 pp. (2005).
• DAMOUSI, J., Living With the Aftermath: Trauma, Nostalgia and Grief in Post- War Australia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: vii+240 pp. (2001).
• DAMOUSI, J., The Labour of Loss: Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: ix+212 pp. (1999).
• DAMOUSI, J., Depraved and Disorderly: Female Convicts, Sexuality and Gender in Colonial Australia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: ix+221 pp. (1997).
• DAMOUSI, J., Women Come Rally: Communism, Socialism and Gender in Australia 1890-1955, Oxford University Press, Melbourne: vi+272 pp. (1994).

Edited books

• DAMOUSI, J., BALINT, R., FITZPATRICK, S (eds) When Migrants Fail to Stay: New Histories on Departures and Migration (London: Bloomsbury, 2023).
• DAMOUSI, J., BURNARD, T., LESTER, A (eds) Humanitarianism, Empire and Transnationalism, 1760-1995: Selective Humanity in the Anglophone World
•  (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022).
• DAMOUSI, J., TOUT-SMITH, D, ZIINO, B, (eds) Museums, History and the Intimate Experience of the Great War: Love and Sorrow (London: Routledge, 2021).
• DAMOUSI J., DWYER P (General Editors) Cambridge World History of Violence, 4 Volumes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020).
• DAMOUSI J., DAVIDSON J (eds) A Cultural History of Emotions in the Modern and Post-Modern Age: Volume 6, (Bloomsbury, London, 2019).
• DAMOUSI J., SMART J (eds) Contesting Australian History: Essays in honour of Marilyn Lake, (Monash University Publishing, Melbourne, 2019)
• DAMOUSI J., O’BRIEN, P (eds) League of Nations: Impact, Legacy, History,
• (Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2018).
• DAMOUSI, J., HAMILTON, P (eds) A Cultural History of Sound, Memory and the Senses, (Routledge, New York, 2017).
• DAMOUSI, J., ARCHER, R., GOOT, M., SCALMER, S., (eds) The Conscription Conflict and the Great War, (Monash University Publishing, Melbourne, 2016).
• DAMOUSI, J., LANG, B; SUTTON, K (eds) Case Studies and the Dissemination of Knowledge, (Routledge, New York, 2015).
• DAMOUSI, J., CURTHOYS, A., (eds) What Did You Do in the Cold War Daddy? Personal Stories from a Troubled Time (UNSW Press, Sydney, 2014).
• DAMOUSI, J., RUBENSTEIN, K., TOMSIC, M., (eds.) Diversity in Leadership: Australian Women, Past and Present (ANU Press, Canberra, 2014).
• DAMOUSI J., PLOTKIN, M (eds) Psychoanalysis and Politics: Histories of Psychoanalysis Under Conditions of Restricted Political Freedom, (Oxford University Press, New York, 2012).
• DAMOUSI, J., PLOTKIN, M (eds.), The Transnational Unconscious: Essays in the history of Psychoanalysis and Transnationalism (Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2008).
• DAMOUSI, J., DEACON, D., (eds.), Talking and Listening in the Age of Modernity: Essays on the History of Sound, ANU Press, Canberra: 1+187 pp. (2007).  
• DAMOUSI, J., REYNOLDS, R. (eds.), History on the Couch: Essays in History and Psychoanalysis, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne: vii+233 pp. (2003).
• DAMOUSI, J., ELLINGHAUS, K. (eds.) Citizenship, Women and Social Justice, University of Melbourne Monographs, Melbourne: i+420 pp. (1999).         
• DAMOUSI, J., LAKE M., (eds.) Gender and War: Australians At War in the Twentieth Century, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne: v-351pp. (1995; 2^nd Edition; 2011).       
• DAMOUSI, J., AVELING, M., (eds.) Stepping Out of History: Documents of Women at Work in Australia, Allen and Unwin, Sydney: x-191 pp. (1991).

Refereed journal articles

• DAMOUSI, J., Thea Gardiner, ‘The First World War Sound Mirror as a Counter-Monument: Sound, War and Sonic Heritage in Britain’, Forthcoming, Journal of Contemporary History. 
• DAMOUSI, J, ‘The Surveillance of Australian Dictation Test Exemptions,1901-1939’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. Forthcoming, 2027.  
• DAMOUSI, J., Frances M. Clarke, Philip Dwyer, Mark Edele, Reto Hoffmann, Hans-Lukas Kieser, ‘Dreams and Nightmares: Imagining the Aftermath of War 1815-1945’, English Historical Review, volume 141, 2026.
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Dear Aunty Eleanor’: Eleanor Roosevelt, Anna Freud and the politics of emotion in letters by children in war’, Social History, 48: 3, August 2023, 338-362.
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Celebrity humanitarianism in the 1920s: Australian Women at the League of Nations’, Cultural and Social History, 20:3, 2023, 367-384.
• DAMOUSI, J., Filippo Nelli, Anh Nguyen Austen, Alessandro Toffoli and Mary Tomsic, ‘Forced migration and oceanic humanitarianism: The paradox of danger and saviour on the ocean in a Vietnamese refugee boat journey’, The Historical Journal, vol.65, Issue 2, March 2022, pp.505-526.
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Child sponsorship, development and aid: PLAN and UNICEF in Australia, 1945-1975’, History Australia, Volume 17, no.4, 2020, pp. 711-727.
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Humanitarianism and children refugee sponsorship: The Spanish Civil War and the Global Campaign of Esme Odgers’, Journal of Women’s History, Volume 32, no.1, Spring 2020, pp.111-134.
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘World Refugee Year 1959-1960: Humanitarian rights in post-war Australia’, Australian Historical Studies, Volume 51, no.2, 2020, pp.212-227.
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘From charity to justice: the Australian Foster Parents Plan and humanitarian aid in Asia in the 1970s’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, Volume 65, no.4, 2019, pp.549-565.
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Out of Common Humanity’: Humanitarianism, Compassion and Efforts to Assist Jewish refugees in the 1930s’, Australian Historical Studies, 2019, volume 50, no.1, pp.81-98.
• DAMOUSI J., ‘Jewish Children in Australian History’, Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal, 24, 1 2018, pp.87-108
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘The campaign for Japanese-Australian children to enter Australia, 1957-1968: A history of post-war humanitarianism’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, Volume 64, no.2, 2018, pp.211-226.  
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Mothers in War: “Responsible mothering”, children and the prevention of violence in twentieth century war’, History and Theory, Volume 56, no.4, Issue 55, December 2017, pp.119-134. 
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Building “healthy happy family units”: Aileen Fitzpatrick and reuniting Greek children separated by the Greek Civil war with their families in Australia, 1949-1954’, Journal of The History of the Family, Volume 22, issue 4, 2017, pp. 446-484. 
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Humanitarianism in the inter-war years: How Australians responded to the child refugees of the Armenian genocide and the Greek-Turkish exchange’, History Australia, 12, no.1, April 2015, pp.95-115.
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘John Springthorpe’s War’, La Trobe Journal, 2015, pp.103-116.
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Does Feminist History Have a Future?’, Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 29, No.80, 2014, pp.189-203.
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘‘Women-Keep Australia Free!’:  Women Voters and Activists in the 1951 Referendum Campaign’, Australian Historical Studies, volume 44, Issue no.1, March 2013, pp.89-104.
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Viola Bernard and the analysis of “Alice Conrad”: A Case Study in the History of Intimacy’, Journal of the History of Sexuality, volume 22, number 3, September 2013, pp.474-500.
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘“We are human beings, and have a past”: The “Adjustment” of Migrants and the Australian Assimilation Policies of the 1950s’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, volume 59, number 4, 2013, pp.501-516.
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘The Greek Civil War and Child Migration to Australia – Aileen Fitzpatrick and the Australian Council of International Social Service’, Social History, volume 37, no. 3, 2012, pp.297-313. 
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Kay Daniels, Convict Women and 19^th Century Tasmanian History’, Tasmanian Historical Studies, 2011. 
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Ethnicity and Emotions: Psychic Life in Greek Communities’ Modern Greek Studies, volume 14, 2010, pp.7-25.
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘A History of Australian Voice and Speech in Russell Ward’s The Australian Legend and Beyond, Journal of Australian Colonial History, vol.10, no.2, 2008, pp.155-170.  
• DAMOUSI, J., 'An absence of anything masculine: Vida Goldstein and women's public speech', Victorian Historical Journal, Vol. 79, no.2, 2008, pp. 251-264. 
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘‘‘The Filthy American Twang”: Elocution, the Advent of American “Talkies” and
  Australian Cultural Identity’, American Historical Review, volume 112, no.2, April 2007, pp.394-416.
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Australian Medical Intellectuals and the Great War’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, Volume 53, Number 3, 2007, pp.436-450.
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Agnes Milne: The Factory Inspector as Political Agitator, 1896-1906’, Labour History, no.87, November 2004, pp. 11-30. 
• DAMOUSI, J., and John Cash, ‘Inside Footy Mania’, Meanjin, vol. 63, no.4, 2004, pp. 218-225. 
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘History Matters: The Politics of Grief and Injury in Australian History’, Australian Historical Studies, no.118, 2002, pp. 100-112.
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Private Loss, Public Mourning: Motherhood, Memory and Grief During the Inter-War Years’, Women's History Review, vol.8, no.2, June 1999, pp. 347-360. 
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Writing Gender into History and History in Gender: Creating A Nation and Australian Historiography’, Gender and History, November 1999, pp. 612-624.
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Representations of the Body on Communist Iconography’ in Australian Feminist Studies, Volume 12 Number 25, April 1997, pp.59-75. 
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Beyond the "Origins Debate" Theorising Sexuality and Gender Disorder in Convict Women's History', Australian Historical Studies, April 1996: pp.59-71.
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Depraved and Disorderly: The Sexuality of Convict Women’, Labour History, May 1995: pp.30-45.
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Chaos and Order: Gender, Space and Sexuality on Female Convict Ships’, Australian Historical Studies, April 1995: pp. 351-372.
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘The Enthusiasms of Adela Pankhurst Walsh’, Australian Historical Studies, no.100, April 1993: pp. 422-436.
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Woman Comrade: Equal or Different?’ Women's History Review,  Volume 2, Number 3, 1993: pp.387-394.
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Modernism, Socialism and Communism: A Gender Critique’, Journal of Australian Studies, no.32, March 1992: pp.34-39.
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Socialist Women and Gendered Space; The Anti-Conscription Campaigns of 1916-1917’, in Labour History, May 1991: pp.1-15.
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Socialist Women’, Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, no.5, Spring 1988, pp.26-48.

Chapters in a book

• DAMOUSI, J, ‘’From Russian Skies to Southern Cross’: The memories of dislocation, loss and renewal in the transnational lives of Maurice Laserson (1880-1961)’ in Dislocations: Mobile People and the Soviet State (eds) Mollie Arbuthnot, Sheila Fitzpatrick and Caroline Humphrey, Berghahan Oxford, 2027.
• DAMOUSI, J., Adam Lawrence, Filippo Nelli, Alessandro Toffoli, Anisa Puri, Mary Tomsic, ‘Asylum Seeker Boat Journeys: Risks and climate change in the Indian Ocean’, Lynette Russell (ed) Spheres of Interaction: A Handbook of Global Oceanic Encounters, London, Palgrave Macmillan, TBC. 
• DAMOUSI, J, ‘Family memories of war and displacement: primary sources for the making of an historian’, in Kolleen Guy and Jay Winter (eds) Statelessness after Arendt: European Refugees in China and the Pacific in the period after the Second World War, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2025, pp.75-92.
• DAMOUSI, J. ‘Medical missionaries and the humanitarian subject: The American Women’s Hospital, faith based and secular humanitarianism, 1915-1939’, in Jessica Stroja (ed) Rediscovering Humanitarianism: Using Secular and Religious Histories to Provide New Understandings of Refugee Resettlement, London, Routledge, 2025, pp.12-29.
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Immigration and Integration’, in Lisa Todd and Cindy Brown (eds) A Cultural History of War in the Modern Age (Volume 6:1920–Present), Bloomsbury: London, 2025, pp.43-65.
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Secrecy and assimilation: the surveillance of Greek immigrants in Cold War Australia’, in Seamus Spark and Christina Twomey (eds) Fault Lines: Lessons from Australia's Unequal Past, Melbourne, Monash University Publishing, 2025, pp.109-123.
• DAMOUSI, J., Jason Smeaton, Mary Tomsic, ‘Politics and War’, A Cultural History of Gender in the Contemporary World, Volume 6, (ed.) Adrian Bingham, Bloomsbury, London, 2025, pp.77-97.    
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Greek Departures: Ships, Stowaways and the Politics of Returns’, in
• Balint, R., Damousi, J., R., Fitzpatrick, S (eds) When Migrants Fail to Stay: New Histories on Departures and Migration, London: Bloomsbury, 2023, pp.145-160. 
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘“We are still alive”: Refugees and Loneliness’, in Katie Barclay, Elaine Chalus and Deborah Simonton (ed.) The Routledge History of Loneliness, Routledge: London, 2023, pp. 471-483. 
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘A biographer’s journey of revelation: Stuart Macintyre on Ernest Scott’ in Peter Beilharz and Sian Supski, (eds) The Work of History: Writing for Stuart Macintyre, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2022, pp.133-148. 
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Humanitarian activism during the Vietnam war: The case of Rosemary Taylor, Elaine Moir and Margaret Moses’, in Joy Damousi, Trevor Burnard, Alan Lester (eds) Humanitarianism, Empire and Transnationalism, 1760-1995: Selective Humanity in the Anglophone World, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022, pp.283-304.
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Emotions and memory in the soundscapes of World War 1’, in Joy Damousi, Deborah Tout-Smith and Bart Ziino (eds) Museums, History and the Intimate Experience of the Great War: Love and Sorrow, London: Routledge, 2021, pp. 9–27. 
• DAMOUSI J., ‘Trauma, child refugees, and humanitarians in the Spanish Civil War and World War II: A Case Study on Esme Odgers’, in Paula Michaels and Christina Twomey (eds) Gender and Trauma since 1900, London: Bloomsbury, 2021, pp.41-58.      
• DAMOUSI, J., Dwyer, P., ‘Violence in World History’, in The Cambridge World History of Violence, Volume 1, Garrett G. Fagan, Linda Fibiger, Mark Hudson, Matthew Trundle (eds), The Prehistoric and Ancient Worlds, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, pp. 1-18.
• DAMOUSI, J., Silverstein, J; Tomsic, M; ‘”Never forget that this happened”: Remembering and Forgetting Violence’, in The Cambridge World History of Violence, volume 4: 1800 to the Present (ed) Louise Edwards, Nigel Penn and Jay Winter, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, pp.616-636. 
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘In Search of Victor: Transnationalism, Emotion and War’ in Claire Langhamer, Lucy Noakes, Claudia Siebrecht (eds) Total War: An Emotional History, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020, pp.157–176. 
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘An Appeal from Afar’: the challenges of compassion and the Australian humanitarian campaigns for Armenian relief, 1900-1930’, in Joanne Laycock and Francesca Piana (eds) Aid to Armenia, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020, pp.50-65. 
• DAMOUSI J., Davidson, J. W, ‘From the Modern to the Digital World: New Order, New Emotions’, in A Cultural History of Emotions in the Modern and Post-Modern Age, Volume 6 (eds) Jane W. Davison and Joy Damousi, Bloomsbury, London, 2019, pp.1-18 
• DAMOUSI J., ‘Transforming Australian History: Humanitarianism and Transnationalism’ in (eds) Joy Damousi and Judith Smart (eds) Contesting Australian History: Essays in honour of Marilyn Lake, Monash University Publishing: Melbourne, 2019, pp.94-106. 
• DAMOUSI, J, ‘Australian League of Nations Union and War Refugees:1930-1939’ in Joy Damousi and Patricia O’Brien (eds) League of Nations: Impact, Legacy, History, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2018, pp.28-45.
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Hidden by the Myth: Women’s Leadership in War and Peace’, David Stephens and Alison Broinowski (eds) The Honest History Book, Sydney: UNSW Press, 2017, pp.211-224.  
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Gender and Mourning’, in Susan R, Grayzel and Tammy Proctor (eds) Gendering the Great War, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, pp.211-229. 
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘The Greek Civil War, Child Removal and Traumatic Pasts in Australia’ in Robert Mason (ed), Legacies of Violence: Rendering the Unspeakable Past in Modern Australia, Berghahn: New York, 2017. 
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Sound and Silence in War: Dresden and Paris in the Second World War’, in Joy Damousi and Paula Hamilton, (eds) A Cultural History of Sound, Memory and the Senses, Routledge: New York, 2017, pp.123-141.
• DAMOUSI, J., “This is against all the British traditions of fair play”: Violence against Greeks on the Australian home-front during the First World War’, (ed.) Michael Walsh and Andrekos Vankos, Australia and the Great War: Identity, Memory and Mythology, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2016, pp.128-145. 
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Universities and Conscription: The ‘Yes’ Campaign and the University of Melbourne’, Robin Archer, Joy Damousi, Sean Scalmer, Murray Goot (eds) The Conscription Conflict and the Great War, Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, Melbourne, 2016, pp.83-101. 
• DAMOUSI, J., LANG, B; SUTTON, K; Introductory essay: ‘Case Study and the Dissemination of Knowledge’, in (eds) Case Studies and the Dissemination of Knowledge, Routledge, New York, 2015, pp.1-12.
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Sexuality and the Case Study in the United States, 1940-1965’, in Joy Damousi, Birgit Lang, Katie Sutton, (eds) Case Studies and the Dissemination of Knowledge, Routledge, New York, 2015, pp.133-151.
• DAMOUSI, J; ‘Mourning Practices’, The Cambridge History of the First World War, Volume 3: Civil Society at War, (ed.) Jay Winter, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp.693-746. French edition published 2015.
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Female Factory Inspectors and Leadership in Early Twentieth Century Australia’, in (eds) Joy Damousi, Mary Tomsic, Kim Rubenstein, Diversity in Leadership: Australian Women, Past and Present, ANU Press, Canberra, 2014, pp.167-184.  
• DAMOUSI, J., and Plotkin, Mariano, ‘Psychoanalysis and Politics: Historical Perspectives’, in Joy Damousi and Mariano Plotkin (eds, Psychoanalysis and Politics: Histories of Psychoanalysis Under Conditions of Restricted Political Freedom, Oxford University Press, New York (2012) pp. ix-xxx. 
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘‘Legacies of war and migration: Memories of war trauma and Second Generation Greek-Australians’ in Niklaus Steiner, Robert Mason, Anna Hayes (eds) Migration and Insecurity: Citizenship and Social Inclusion in a Transnational Era, Routledge, London (2012) pp. 31-47.
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Geza Roheim and the Australian Aborigine: Psychoanalytic Anthropology During the Inter-War Years’ in Warwick Anderson and Richard Keller (eds), Globalizing the
 Unconscious: Psychoanalysis, Colonial Trauma, Global Sovereignties, Duke University Press, pp.75-95 (2011). 
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘The Responsibility of Empire’: War and Commemoration’, in Deryck Schreuder and Stuart Ward (eds) The Oxford Companion to the British Empire: Australia, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 288-311 (2008).
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Eyes Left: Psychiatrist Reginald Ellery and the Soviet Dream’, Sheila Fitzpatrick and Carolyn Rasmussen (eds), Political Tourists: Australian Travellers to the Soviet Union in the 1920s-1940s, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 2008, pp. 170-188 (2008).
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘The Travelling Psychoanalyst: Andrew Peto and Transnational Explorations into Psychoanalysis in Budapest, Melbourne and New York’, in Joy Damousi and Mariano Plotkin (eds) The Transnational Unconscious: Essays in the History of Psychoanalysis and Transnationalism, Palgrave Macmillan, London, (2008).
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘”The Australian has a lazy way of talking’:  Australian Character and Accent 1920s-1940s’ in Joy Damousi and Desley Deacon (eds) Talking and Listening in the Age of Modernity: Essays on the History of Sound, ANU Press (2007), pp. 83-96.
• DAMOUSI J., and John Cash, ‘Fathers and Daughters at Play’, in Matthew Nicholson and Rob Hess (eds) Football Fever: Moving the Goalposts, Melbourne, Maribyrnong Press, (2006), pp.219-228.  
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘”The Slowly Changing Status of Women”: Women’s Studies and Gender Studies’, in Fay Anderson and Stuart Macintyre (eds) Life of the Past: The Discipline of History at the University of Melbourne, pp.321-338, Melbourne, University of Melbourne (2006). 
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Working Widowed Mothers and Welfare Inspectors in Victoria in the 1920s and 1930s’, in Patricia Grimshaw, John Murphy and Belinda Probert (eds) Double Shift, Melbourne, Circa, (2005) pp.103-117. 
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘The Emotions of History’, in Stuart Macintyre, (ed) The Historian’s Conscience: Australian Historians on the Ethics of History, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, (2004) pp.28-39.
• DAMOUSI, J., (with Freda Freiberg) 'Engendering the Greek: The Shifting Representations of Greek Identity in Australian Cinema' in Lisa French, (ed.) Womenvision: Women and the Moving Image in Australia, Damned Publishing, Melbourne, (2003) pp. 149-160.
• DAMOUSI, J., 'Making the Ordinary Extraordinary in the 1950s: Explorations of Interiority and Australian Cultural History', in Hsu-Ming Teo and Richard White (eds) Cultural History in Australia, UNSW Press, Sydney (2003) pp. 214-225.
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘The State and the Widow: Pension Debates in Inter-War Australia', in Lynne Haney and Lisa Pollard (eds) Families of a New World: Gender, Politics and State Development in a Global Context, Routledge, New York (2003), pp.99-118. 
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘'Disorder, Invasion and "Irrationality" in the Federal Fanchise of 1902' in John Chesterman and David Philips (ed) Selective Democracy: Race, Gender and the Australian Vote, Melbourne Publishing Group, (2003) pp.60-70. 
• DAMOUSI, J., 'A History of Dreams: Modernity, Masculinity and Inner Life in the 1920s and 1930s', in  Joy Damousi and Robert Reynolds (eds), History on the Couch: Essays in History and Psychoanalysis, Melbourne University Press, (2003) pp.26-35. 
• DAMOUSI, J., and REYNOLDS R, ‘Psychoanalysis, Histories and Identities’, in  Joy Damousi and Robert Reynolds, (eds), History on the Couch: Essays in History and Psychoanalysis, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, (2003) pp.1-14. 
• DAMOUSI, J., 'Margaret Cuthbertson, Factory Inspection and the Political Lives of Working Women, 1890-1914' in Mark Hearn and Greg Patmore (eds) Working the Nation: Working Life and Federation: 1890-1914, Pluto Press, Sydney, (2001), pp. 249-263.
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Making and Remaking the Past: New Approaches to Australian History’, in Chris McAuliffe (ed.) The Sense We Make: Australian Art from the Orica Collection, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne: pp.16-19 (2001).
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Representations of History and 'the Past' in Popular Culture, in Steven Wheatcroft (ed) Genocide, History and Fictions: Papers from a History Forum on The Hand That Signed the Paper, Department of History Monograph Series, pp. 71-73. (1998).
• DAMOUSI, J., 'Multiple Political Identities' in Geoffrey Bolton and Wayne Hudson (eds) Creating Australia, Allen and Unwin, Sydney. pp. 79-85. (1997).
• DAMOUSI, J., 'What punishment will be sufficient for these rebellious hussies?' Headshaving and convict women in the female factories, 1820s-1840s', in Representing Convicts: New Perspectives on Convict Forced Labour Migration, (eds.) Ian Duffield and James Bradley. Leicester University Press, London, pp. 204-214. (1997).  
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Feminist Biography’, in Richard Broome (ed) Tracing Past Lives: The Writing of Historical Biography, History Institute, pp.33-42. (1995). 
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Gendered Meanings and Actions in Left Wing Movements’, in Terry Irving (ed.) Challenges to Labour History, University of NSW Press, Sydney: pp.150-168. (1994).
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Marching to Different Drums: Women's Mobilization, 1914-1939’ in Kay Saunders and Raymond Evans (eds.) Gender Relations In Australian History: Domination and Negotiation, Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, Sydney: pp.350-375 (1993). 
• DAMOUSI, J, ‘Gender and Socialism: Women in the Victorian Socialist Party', in Barry York and Richard Nile (eds.) Workers and Intellectuals: Essays in Twentieth Century Australian History, Edward Blackward, London: pp.28-45 (1992). 
• DAMOUSI, J., ‘Post War Fitzroy; Growing Up in a Greek Family’, in Fitzroy History Society (ed.) Fitzroy: Melbourne's First Suburb, Hyland House, Melbourne: pp.252-254 (1989).

Projects

11 ARC Grants:

• ARC Discovery Grant (‘Aftermaths of War: Violence, Trauma, Displacement, 1815-1950’). (2020-2023) Chief CI
• ARC Learned Academies Special Projects (LASP) (‘The future humanities workforce’), (2018-2020), Chief CI
• ARC Linkage Grant (‘Invisible Farmer: Securing Australian Farm Women’s History’) (2016-2019) Chief CI
• ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellowship, (‘Child Refugees and Australian Internationalism, 1920 to the present’ (2014-2019) Chief Sole CI  
• ARC Discovery Project (‘Hell Sounds: The Soundscape of War, 1914–1945), Chief Sole CI (2014-2016)
• ARC Linkage Grant (‘Comedy: No laughing matter: identifying and preserving the history of comedy in Melbourne, 1960s–1980s’, 2013–2015), Co-CI
• ARC Discovery Grant (‘Making the Case: The Case Study Genre in Sexology, Psychoanalysis and Literature’, 2010–2103) Co-CI
• ARC Discovery Grant (‘Greek War Stories: Trans-nationalism, war trauma and migration’, 2010-2012) Chief Sole CI
• ARC Linkage Grant  (‘Women and Leadership in a century of Australian Democracy’, 2010-2012) Co-CI
• ARC Discovery Grant  (‘Elocution Lessons: A History of Elocution, Speech and the Auditory Self in Australian Cultural Life’, 2006-2008) Chief Sole CI
• ARC Discovery Grant  (‘Freud in the Antipodes: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in Australia’, 2003-2005) Chief Sole CI

Accolades and awards

• International Fellow, British Academy, 2026
• Order of Australia (AM), 2022
• Lifetime Achievement Award Australian Historical Association, 2022
• Melbourne Laureate Fellow, 2019
• Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor (University of Melbourne), 2020–
• ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellowship, 2014–2019
• Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, 2004
• Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 2004

Appointments and affiliations

• President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, 2017–2020
• President of the Australian Historical Association, 2018–2020
• Director of the Australian Council of Learned Academies Limited
• Professor of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne
• Member of History Council of Victoria 

Prizes

Editorial roles

• Labour History, board member, 2001–
• Australian Dictionary of Biography, board member, 2011–2021
• Gender and History, 2007–2020
• Melbourne University Press Australian History series, series editor, 2013–2019
• Australian Historical Studies, editor, 2002–2006; chair of the board, 2007–2010
• Women’s History Review, associate editor, 2007–2014

Grant agency review panel

• Chair, ARC Laureate Fellowship Scheme
• Chair, Humanities and Creative Arts panel for Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA)
• Chair, Humanities and Creative Arts panel for the Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts

Public engagement

• Host: 'AI, Ethics, and the Future: Can the Arts and Humanities Save Us?', In Focus: Executive Dean Presents... lecture series, Australian Catholic University, 18 April 2024 Watch video
• Panelist: 'How can the Arts and Humanities Survive and Thrive in the 21st Century?', In Focus: Executive Dean Presents... lecture series, Australian Catholic University, 2 May 2023 Watch video
• Panelist: ‘Why the Humanities?’,The Philosopher's Zone. Rutledge, D. (Host). ABC Radio National, 14 August 2019 Listen to audio
• Public lecture: ‘History of Child Refugees’, The University of Queensland, 2016 
• Public lecture: ‘Child Refugees and Australian Internationalism’, The University of Melbourne, 2015
• Fred Alexander public lecture: ‘Hell Sounds, Birdsongs and Zeppelins: Emotions, Memory and the Soundscape of the Great War’, The University of Western Australia, 2015
• Public lecture: ‘Greek War Stories: Migration, War Trauma and Intergenerational War Stories’, Alex Condos Memorial Lecture, Brisbane, 2010