Research interests
Bart is a leading scholar of Australia and the First World War. He has published widely on Australian experiences of 1914-18, including private sentiment surrounding the war, children and war, gender and military service, archives and war, and the emotional impacts of enduring war.
Bart's extensive work on memory, remembrance and commemoration of war ranges from the meaning and treatment of war graves around the world to local war memorials, grief and mourning and the practices of family history. His doctoral thesis, the basis of his first book, A Distant Grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War (UWA Press, 2007), received the Australian Historical Association’s Serle Award for best thesis in Australian history. He has since published the edited collections The Heritage of War (with Martin Gegner, 2011), Remembering the First World War (2015), and Museums, History and the Intimate Experience of the Great War (with Deborah Tout-Smith and Joy Damousi, 2021).
As the inaugural Historian in Residence at the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, Bart investigated workers in reserved occupations and protected industries in Australia during the Second World War (published with Brad Underhill).
Teaching interests
Bart has extensive experience teaching first-year world history at Deakin. At upper levels he thrives on teaching in his area of research specialisation, Australians and the two World Wars. He also teaches historical theory and honours-level research training. He has supervised numerous Honours, Masters and Doctoral theses.
Projects
Publications
B Ziino, B Underhill
(2023), Vol. 94, pp. 333-352, Victorian Historical Journal, C1
For the duration: Surviving World War I at home
B Ziino
(2021), pp. 48-64, Museums, history and the intimate experience of the Great War : love and sorrow, London, Eng., B1
Bart Ziino
(2021), Vol. 1, pp. 32-58, Home Front Studies, Lincoln, NE, C1
Museums, history and the intimate experience of the great war: Love and sorrow
J Damousi, D Tout-Smith, B Ziino
(2021), A7
Bartolo Ziino
(2020), pp. 149-164, Proximity and distance: space, time and World War I, South Carlton, Vic., B1
Twenty-five years at the front line: Gender and War in retrospect
B Ziino
(2020), Vol. 17, pp. 5-16, History Australia, London, Eng., C1
Engaging with war records: archival histories and historical practice
B Ziino, A Condé
(2020), Vol. 48, pp. 97-108, Archives and Manuscripts, C1
The 1918 armistice and the civilian experience of war
Bartolo Ziino
(2019), pp. 32-44, The Great War: Aftermath and commemoration, Sydney, N.S.W., B1
Coming home: Australians' sorties de guerre after the First World War
R Fathi, B Ziino
(2019), Vol. 16, pp. 5-19, History Australia, Abingdon, Eng., C1
"They seem to understand all about the War": Australian children and the First World War
B Ziino
(2018), Vol. 11, pp. 227-247, Journal of the history of childhood and youth, Baltimore, Md., C1
'Total war' in Australia: civilian mobilisation and commitment, 1914-18
B Ziino
(2017), pp. 165-182, Australians and the First World War: local-global connections and contexts, Cham, Switzerland, B1
Making sense of the war (Australia)
B Ziino
(2017), pp. 1-11, International encyclopedia of the first world war, Berlin, Germany, B1
Eligible men: men, families and masculine duty in Great War Australia
B Ziino
(2017), Vol. 14, pp. 202-217, History Australia, Abingdon, Eng., C1
AHS Classics: Australia and the First World War: The First World War in Australian History
B Ziino
(2016), Vol. 47, pp. 118-134, Australian Historical Studies, C1
At home with the war: The Great War in Victorian private life. The 2014 Augustus Wolskel lecture
B Ziino
(2015), Vol. 86, pp. 7-25, Victorian historical journal, Melbourne, Vic., C1
War and private sentiment in Australia during 1915
B Ziino
(2015), pp. 88-102, La Trobe journal, Melbourne, Vic., C1
At Home with the War: The Great War in Victorian Private Life
Bart Ziino
(2015), Vol. 86, pp. 7-25, Victorian historical journal, Melbourne, Vic., C1
Remembering the first world war today : Introduction
B Ziino
(2014), pp. 1-11, Remembering the first world war, Abingdon, OXON, UK, B1
Requiem for Empire: Fabian Ware and the Imperial War Graves Commission
B Ziino
(2014), pp. 351-375, Empires in World War I: Shifting Frontiers and Imperial Dynamics in a Global Conflict, London, Eng., B1
"I feel I can no longer endure": Families and the limits of Commitment in Australia, 1914-1919
B Ziino
(2014), pp. 103-117, Endurance and the First World War: Experiences and Legacies in Australia and New Zealand, Newcastle Upon Tyne, B1
Family history and the great war in Australia
B Ziino, C Holbrook
(2014), pp. 39-55, Remembering the first world war, Abingdon, OXON, UK, B1
B Ziino
(2012), pp. 142-159, Heritage of War, Abingdon, England, B1
Introduction : The heritage of war : agency, contingency, identity
M Gegner, B Ziino
(2012), pp. 1-15, Heritage of war, Abingdon, England, B1
ln memoriam - the ANZAC heroes - ANZAC Day grief, and World War One
B Ziino
(2010), pp. 109-119, The reflections on ANZAC day : from one millennium to the next, Heidelberg, Vic., B1
Enlistment and non-enlistment in wartime Australia : responses to the 1916 call to arms appeal
B Ziino
(2010), Vol. 41, pp. 217-232, Australian historical studies, Melbourne, Vic., C1
'A lasting gift to his descendants" : family memory and the great war in Australia
B Ziino, B Ziino
(2010), Vol. 22, pp. 125-146, History and memory, Bloomington, Ind., C1
B Ziino
(2009), pp. 99-113, Places of pain and shame : dealing with difficult heritage, Abingdon, England, B1
Bringing back the dead : mourning and symbolic return
B Ziino
(2009), pp. 248-254, When the soldiers return : November 2007 conference proceedings, Brisbane, Qld., E1-1
B Ziino
(2008), pp. 335-344, Making Australian history : perspectives on the past since 1788, South Melbourne, Vic., B1-1
B Ziino
(2007), Vol. 4, History Australia, Clayton, Vic., C1-1
A kind of round trip : Australian soldiers and the tourist analogy 1914-18
B Ziino
(2006), Vol. 25, pp. 39-52, War & society, Campbell, A.C.T., C1-1
Who owns Gallipoli? Australia's Gallipoli anxieties 1915-2005
B Ziino
(2006), Vol. 88, pp. 1-12, Journal of Australian studies, Perth, W.A., C1-1
Funded Projects at Deakin
Australian Competitive Grants
The Culture of war: private life and sentiment in Australia 1914-18
Dr Bart Ziino
ARC - Discovery Projects
- 2011: $62,352
- 2010: $61,385
- 2009: $72,854
- 2008: $68,054
Australian Heritage Abroad: Managing Australia's Extraterritorial War Heritage
Prof Andrea Witcomb, Prof William Logan, Prof Joan Beaumont, Dr Bart Ziino
ARC - Discovery Projects
- 2016: $4,815
- 2012: $43,069
- 2011: $38,782
- 2010: $63,694
Industry and Other Funding
Enlistment, manpower and reserved occupations: an examination of policy and personal decision-making during the Second World War.
Dr Bart Ziino
Royal Historical Society of Victoria
- 2022: $22,967
Supervisions
Lisa Cooper
Thesis entitled: A 'most heartbreaking job': caring for the dead of Australia's war against Japan
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Fiona Gatt
Thesis entitled: The lived experience of urbanisation in Hotham/North Melbourne, 1852-1905
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Chelsea Piper Rodd
Thesis entitled: War and its Resistance in Canada and Australia
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
John Rose
Thesis entitled: COMMUNITIES, CARTOPHILY, CLUBS: A CARTOPHILIC SPORTS-FOCUSED CASE STUDY OF AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY 1900 ¿ 1963
Master of Arts, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Karen Donnelly
Thesis entitled: The Soldier Artists of the Australian Imperial Force
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Barry Fitzgerald
Thesis entitled: Statesmanship of the Highest Order': Governor-General Ronald Munro-Ferguson and Australia's War of 1914-1918
Master of Arts, School of Humanities and Social Sciences