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Professional Background
Dr Eleanor Hancock is a graduate of the Australian National University and Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. From 1979 to 1984 she was a diplomat with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs before taking up a position as a tutor in history at the University College of the University of New South Wales from 1984 to 1988. She was lecturer and senior lecturer in European and German history at Monash University from 1988 to 2001 before returning to the University of New South Wales @ ADFA in 2001.
Current Research Interests
The Prussian military tradition
Imperialism, including German models for Africa’s economic development and the inter-relationship between imperialism and National Socialism
Germany 1939-1949
The legacy of National Socialism
Nigeria 1914-1949
Feminism, the state and the use of force
Publications
Ernst Röhm: Hitler’s SA Chief of Staff (Palgrave, 2008)
Complete Endnotes
Complete Bibliography
The National Socialist Leadership and Total War, 1941-5 (St Martin’s Press, New York, 1991)
' “Women as Killers and Killing Women”: The Implications of "Gender Neutral" Armed Forces', in Michael Evans and Alan Ryan (eds), The Human Face of Warfare: Killing, Fear and Chaos in Battle, Allen & Unwin, St. Leonards, 2000, pp.159-176, 222-236.
' "Only the real, the true, the masculine held its value": Ernst Röhm, Masculinity and Male Homosexuality', Journal of the History of Sexuality, vol. 8, no. 4, 1998, pp. 616-641.
‘Ernst Röhm and the Experience of World War I’, The Journal of Military History, January 1996, pp. 39-60.
‘Employment in Wartime: The Experience of German Women During the Second World War’, War and Society, volume 12, number 2, October 1994, pp. 43-68.
‘Women, Combat and the Military’, in Renate Howe (ed.), Women and the State: Australian Perspectives, special issue of the Journal of Australian Studies, No. 37, 1993, pp. 88-98.
Courses Taught
History 1A: Birth of the Modern World
History 1B Conflicts in Context: aspects of world history 1941 to the present
ZHSS 2225 The Rise and Fall of Nazi Germany
ZHSS 8218 The Rise and Fall of Global Power
Supervision
- modern European history
- modern German history, especially Nazism, and British history
- some capacity to supervise in African history and more contemporary research projects on West and Southern Africa