Humanities and Social Sciences

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Dr Marina Larsson

Lecturer 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

Dr 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. Marina has published and presented on war and repatriation history, and has diverse research interests including disability history, public history, and gender history

Prizes include
Australian Historical Association Serle Award 2008 for PhD thesis ‘The Burdens of Sacrifice: War Disability in Australian Families 1914-1939’.

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

Research Publications

Authored Books

• Shattered Anzacs: Living with the Scars of War, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2009 . Shortlisted for the NSW Premiers awards for Australian History 2009.

Edited Books

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

Articles and Chapters

• ‘A Disenfranchised Grief: Postwar Death and Memorialisation in Australia after the First World War’, Australian Historical Studies, March 2009 (forthcoming).
• ‘Families and Institutions for Shell-Shocked Soldiers in Australia after the First World War’, Social History of Medicine, (forthcoming, 2009).
• ‘Family 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)
• ‘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.
• ‘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.

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