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Dr Marina Larsson

Honorary Research Associate Room: David Myers Building E301 Tel: (61 3) 9479 2382 Fax: (61 3) 9479 1942 Email: m.larsson@latrobe.edu.au Qualifications: MA Melb., PhD La Trobe

Marina Larsson has held lecturing positions at La Trobe and Monash universities. A promising early career scholar, she received the Australian Historical Association’s biennial Serle Award in 2008, for the best postgraduate thesis in Australian History. Her recent book, Shattered Anzacs: Living with the Scars of War (UNSW Press, 2009) tells the untold story of thousands of Australian families who welcomed home soldiers disabled by the First World War. In 2009 this book was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Prize for Australian History, commended for the Asher Literary Award and shortlisted for the CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature. Marina has published and presented on war and repatriation history, and her research interests include Australian history, disability history, gender history, oral history, social history, and history of the family.

Prizes include
Australian Historical Association Serle Award 2008        
NSW Premier's Prize for Australian History 2009 (Shortlisted)
Asher Literary Award 2009 (Commended)
CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature 2009 (Shortlisted)

Research Publications
Authored Books
Shattered Anzacs: Living with the Scars of War, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2009 (forthcoming).

Research Publications

Books

Authored Books

• Shattered Anzacs: Living with the Scars of War, University of New South Wales Press, 2009.

Edited Books

• with Martin Crotty, Anzac Legacies: Australians and the Aftermath of War, Australian Scholarly Publishing, forthcoming 2010.

Journal Articles

• Families and Institutions for Shell-Shocked Soldiers in Australia after the First World War’, Social History of Medicine, vol. 22, no. 1, April 2009, pp. 97-114.
• A Disenfranchised Grief: Postwar Death and Memorialisation in Australia after the First World War’ (2009), Australian Historical Studies, vol. 40, no. 1, March 2009, pp. 79-95.
  
• Restoring the Spirit: The Rehabilitation of Disabled Soldiers in Australia After the Great War’, Health and History, Special Issue: Military Medicine, vol. 6, no. 2, December 2004, pp. 45-59.

Book Chapters

• Families and Caregiving for Disabled Soldiers in Australia after the First World War’, in Martin Crotty and Marina Larsson (eds), Anzac Legacies: Australians and the Aftermath of War, Australian Scholarly Publishing, forthcoming 2010.
  
• Writing about Wounds: Australian Soldiers' Hospital Letters 1914-18, in Claire Woods and Judith Timoney (eds) The Writings of War, Lythrum Press, Adelaide, 2008, pp. 82-97.

Other Commentary

• Who Picks up the Pieces?, Melbourne Historical Journal, forthcoming 2009.
• Unsung Healers: Caring for Disabled Soldiers’, Memento, forthcoming 2009.
  
• Remembering our Shattered Anzacs’, Age, online opinion piece, 25 April 2009.
  
• Private Lives, Public Archives’, Pharos, no. 56, 2009, p.8.
• Dear Mother: Letters from Australian War Wounded 1914-1918, Passim, no. 6, 2006.