Eleanor Hancock

Associate Professor of History
Associate Professor

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)

Complete Endnotes

Complete Bibliography

 

Ernst Röhm: Hitler’s SA Chief of Staff (Palgrave, 2008)

Complete Endnotes

Complete Bibliography

PUBLICATIONS

Books
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Stockings C; Hancock E, 2013, Swastika over the Acropolis, BRILL
2013
Hancock E, 2012, Foreword
2012
Hancock EI, 2011, Ernst Röhm: Hitler's SA Chief of Staff, Paperback, Palgrave MacMillan, New York
2011
Hancock EI, 2008, Ernst Rohm Hitler`s SA Chief of Staff, Original, Palgrave MacMillan, New York, USA
2008
Book Chapters
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Hancock E, 2021, 'Germany at War', in Bartrop PR (ed.), The Routledge History of the Second World War, Routledge, Abingdon (UK), pp. 257 - 270, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429455353-22
2021
Hancock E, 2018, '‘Remembering Jeff Grey as a colleague', in Stanley P (ed.), Jeff Grey A Life in History, pp. 5 - 5
2018
McCormack C; Kennelly R; Gilchrist J; Hancock E; Islam J; Northcote M; Thomson K, 2017, 'From Dream to Reality: Sustaining a Higher Education Community of Practice Beyond Initial Enthusiasm', in Communities of Practice, Springer Singapore, pp. 599 - 622, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2879-3_28
2017
Hancock EI; McCormack C; Kennelly R; Gilchrist J; Islam J; Northcote M; Thomson K, 2017, 'From Dream to Reality: Sustaining a Higher Education Community of Practice Beyond Initial Enthusiasm', in McDonald J; Cater-Steel A (ed.), Communities of Practice: Facilitating Social Learning in Higher Education, Springer Singapore, Singapore, pp. 599 - 622, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2879-3
2017
Hancock E, 2014, 'Röhm, Ernst (1887–1934)', in Germany at War: 400 Years of Military History [4 volumes] 400 Years of Military History, ABC-CLIO, pp. 1102 - 1102
2014
Hancock EI, 2012, '"They also served": Exaggerating women's role in Australia's wars', in Stockings C (ed.), Anzac's Dirty Dozen: 12 Myths of Australian Military History, edn. 1st, UNSW Press, Sydney, pp. 100 - 111
2012
Hancock EI, 2012, 'Introduction', in The Memoirs of Ernst Röhm, Frontline Books, Barnsley, pp. xv - xviii, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315677293
2012
Hancock EI, 2010, 'Introduction', in Hitler's Storm Troopers A History of the SA The Memoirs of Wilfred von Oven, Pen & Sword Books, Barnsley, pp. 9 - 12
2010
Hancock EI, 2010, 'Introduction', in The Memoirs of Ernst Röhm, edn. Original, FrontLine Publishers, London, pp. 9 - 12
2010
Journal articles
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Hancock E, 2020, 'Editor’s Note', War and Society, vol. 39, pp. 233, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07292473.2020.1811469
2020
Hancock E, 2019, 'Editor's Note', War and Society, vol. 38, pp. 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07292473.2019.1553491
2019
Hancock E, 2018, 'Editor’s note', War and Society, vol. 37, pp. 223, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07292473.2018.1496784
2018
McCormack C; Gilchrist J; Hancock E; Islam J; Kennelly R; Northcote M; Thomson K, 2017, 'The alchemy of facilitation revealed through individual stories and collective narrative', Reflective Practice, vol. 18, pp. 42 - 54, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14623943.2016.1251407
2017
Hancock E, 2017, 'Editor’s note', War and Society, vol. 36, pp. 155, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07292473.2017.1356596
2017
Stockings CA; Hancock E, 2015, '‘Rethinking Allied relationships during the Greek Campaign, April 1941’, , Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 6-32.', Global War Studies, vol. 11, pp. 6 - 32, http://dx.doi.org/10.5893/19498489.11.03.01
2015
Stockings CA; hancock , 2014, 'The invasion of Greece in 1941 and the Nazi hordes that never were...', Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand), vol. 16-17, pp. 147 - 164
2014
Hancock EI, 2013, 'Review of Peter Longerich, Heinrich Himmler', Journal of Military History, vol. 76, pp. 1271 - 1273
2013
Hancock EI; Gilchrist J; Islam J; McCormack C; Northcote M, 2013, '‘Collaborative Mentoring - reflection on the role of TATAL in the aftershock of a HERDSA Fellowship Application’', HERDSA News, vol. 35, pp. 16 - 18
2013
Stockings CA; Hancock EI, 2012, 'Reconsidering the Luftwaffe in Greece, 1941', Journal of Military History, vol. 76, pp. 747 - 773
2012
Hancock EI, 2012, 'Ernst Rohm versus General Hans Kundt in Bolivia, 1929-30? The curious incident', Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 47, pp. 691 - 708, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022009412451287
2012
Hancock E, 2011, 'The purge of the SA reconsidered: "an old putschist trick"?', Central European History, vol. 44, pp. 669 - 683, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0008938911000689
2011
Hancock EI, 2011, 'The Purge of the SA Reconsidered: 'An Old Putschist Trick"?', The Purge of the SA Reconsidered: 'An Old Putschist Trick"?, vol. No. 44, pp. 669 - 683
2011
Hancock EI, 2010, 'Review of 'Martin Kitchen, Rommel's Desert War: Waging World War II in North Africa, 1941-1943', American Historical Review, vol. 115, pp. 1243 - 1244
2010
Hancock EI, 2008, 'West’s infamous monster barely knowable', The Australian Weekend review, pp. 14 - 14
2008
Hancock EI, 2008, 'Diplomacy with a difference: The Commonwealth office of High Commissioner, 1880-2006', Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 62, pp. 431 - 432
2008
Hancock EI, 2005, 'Endkampf: Soldiers, civilians, and the death of the third Reich', American Historical Review, vol. 110, pp. 570 - 571
2005
Hancock EI, 2001, 'Book Review', The Age, vol. 1, pp. 8 - 8
2001
Hancock E, 1998, '"Only the real, the true, the masculine held its value": Ernst Röhm, masculinity, and male homosexuality', Journal of the History of Sexuality, vol. 8, pp. 616 - 641
1998
Hancock E, 1994, 'Employment in Wartime: The experience of German women during the second World War', War and Society, vol. 12, pp. 43 - 68, http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/072924794791200223
1994
Hancock E, 1993, 'Women, Combat and the Military', Journal of Australian Studies, vol. 17, pp. 88 - 98, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443059309387143
1993
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