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
Axis campaigns in Greece 1940-1
The Prussian military tradition
Imperialism, including German models for Africa’s economic development and the inter-relationship between imperialism and National Socialist Germany 1939-1949
The legacy of National Socialism
Nigeria 1914-to the present
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
Dr Hancock is the current editor of War & Society Journal
For her Engagement story please click
Ernst Röhm: Hitler’s SA Chief of Staff (paperback edition, Palgrave, November 2011)
Ernst Röhm: Hitler’s SA Chief of Staff (Palgrave, 2008)