Faculty of Arts and Education

School of Humanities and Social Sciences


   A/Prof. Michele Langfield

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Position Honorary Associate Professor
Email michele.langfield@deakin.edu.au
Area School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Phone N/A
Campus Geelong
Role and profile Associate Professor Michele Langfield, PhD, has worked in the Faculty of Arts, Deakin University at the Toorak and Burwood campuses in Melbourne, for 22 years. Her research interests include migration, ethnicity, identity and cultural heritage and she has published widely in these areas. Her books include Espresso bar to EMC: a thirty-year history of the Ecumenical Migration Centre (1996), More people imperative: immigration to Australia, 1901-39 (1999), and Welsh Patagonians: the Australian Connection (with Peta Roberts) 2005. Much of her more recent work utilises oral histories and videotestimonies, particularly in the field of Jewish and Holocaust studies, and she is joint editor of Testifying to the Holocaust, (with Pam Maclean and Dvir Abramovich), 2008. A further edited collection (with William Logan and Mairead Nic Craith) is entitled Cultural Diversity, Heritage and Human Rights: Intersections in Theory and Practice, (Routledge) 2010. She has presented numerous conference papers and published widely in book chapters and peer reviewed journals. Her current work is on child migration.
Teaching responsibilities Past teaching responsibilities: Australian Studies, History and Cultural Heritage
Research interests Immigration, Australian Studies, History
Current research projects Currently she is working on another two main projects: a Category 2/3 Grant to write the history of the Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre in Melbourne (with Pam Maclean, Andrea Witcomb and Linda Young) and a history of the Salvation Army Migration activities (especially in relation to children) within the British Dominions. A further edited collection (with William Logan and Mairead Nic Craith) entitled Cultural Diversity, Heritage and Human Rights: Intersections in Theory and Practice, was published by Routledge in 2010.
Qualifications BA (Hons 1) UWA, PhD Monash
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22nd April 2013