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Dr Debbie Lackerstein Lecturer History Program Phone: +61 2 6268 8877 Fax: +61 2 6268 8879 Email: d.lackerstein@adfa.edu.au

Professional Background

I am a graduate of the University of Adelaide, where I began tutoring in modern European history as a PhD student researching Vichy France under the German Occupation.  Since my appointment to UNSW @ ADFA I have taught many courses in modern European and world history, with a particular emphasis on world wars and conflict.

Courses Taught

• History 1A and History 1B (in various forms from the birth of the modern world to the end of the twentieth century)
• The Rise and Fall of Great Powers 1789-1945
• The European Powers 1871-1914
• The Great Power System in the Twentieth Century
• The Second World War
• Genocide: Crime of Crimes

Research Interests / Projects

• The Second World War
• Occupied Europe, 1939-1945
• The Holocaust
• French History
• Vichy France
• Resistance
• Intellectual and political history of the 1930s and 1940s
• Genocide in the Twentieth Century

My current research project examines different perspectives on the liberation of the camps in the final stages of the European war, 1945.

Areas of Potential Postgraduate Supervision

• Any aspect of the Second World War, but especially the war in Europe
• Genocides in the twentieth century, especially aspects of the Holocaust and comparative genocide
• French history, especially France in the 1930s, Vichy France and the German occupation

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