Dr Kristen Alexander was awarded a PhD by UNSW Canberra in 2020 for her thesis ‘Emotions of Captivity: Australian Airmen Prisoners of Stalag Luft III and their Families’. In March 2022, the Australian War Memorial awarded her the 2021 Bryan Gandevia Prize for Australian military–medical history.
Specialising in Australian aviation history, she is published in Australia, Great Britain and Japan. She won the non-fiction category of the...view more
Dr Kristen Alexander was awarded a PhD by UNSW Canberra in 2020 for her thesis ‘Emotions of Captivity: Australian Airmen Prisoners of Stalag Luft III and their Families’. In March 2022, the Australian War Memorial awarded her the 2021 Bryan Gandevia Prize for Australian military–medical history.
Specialising in Australian aviation history, she is published in Australia, Great Britain and Japan. She won the non-fiction category of the 2015 ACT Writing and Publishing Award and was highly commended in the 2014 and 2017 awards. Her second book, Jack Davenport: Beaufighter Leader, is on the RAAF Chief of Air Force’s 2010 reading list, and Australia’s Few and the Battle of Britain appears on the 2015 list.
Australian Eagles, her third book, was Highly Commended in the nonfiction category in the 2014 ACT Writing and Publishing Awards. Her fourth book, Australia's Few and the Battle of Britain, won the nonfiction category of the 2015 ACT Writing and Publishing Award. Her fifth book,Taking Flight: Lores Bonney's Extraordinary Flying Career, was highly commended in the nonfiction category of the 2017 ACT Writing and Publishing Award. Her sixth book, Kriegies: the Australian Airmen of Stalag Luft III, based on her thesis and published in June 2023, was awarded the Nonfiction (self-publishing category) in the ACT Literary Awards 2024 as well as the 2024 NSW Premier's History Awards, The Anzac Memorial Trustees Military History Prize.
Further publication details at www.kristenalexander.com.au.
Kristen is a Visiting Fellow at UNSW Canberra.
My Qualifications
Graduate Certificate of Management, University of New England (1994).
Doctor of Philosophy, UNSW Canberra (2020).
My Awards
Awarded the Australian War Memorial's 2021 Bryan Gandevia Prize for Australian military–medical history, for PhD thesis “Emotions of Captivity: Australian Airmen Prisoners of Stalag Luft III and their Families”, completed at the UNSW, Canberra in 2020.
Australian Eagles, her third book, was Highly Commended in the nonfiction category in the 2014 ACT Writing and Publishing Awards. Her fourth book, Australia's Few and the Battle of Britain, won the nonfiction category of the 2015 ACT Writing and Publishing Award. Her fifth book,Taking Flight: Lores Bonney's Extraordinary Flying Career, was highly commended in the nonfiction category of the 2017 ACT Writing and Publishing Award.
Her sixth book, Kriegies: the Australian Airmen of Stalag Luft III, based on her thesis and published in June 2023, was awarded the Nonfiction (self-publishing category) in the ACT Literary Awards 2024 as well as the 2024 NSW Premier's History Awards, The Anzac Memorial Trustees Military History Prize.
My Research Activities
Kristen Alexander is interested in the emotions and moral dilemmas of warfare. She also has a long-standing fascination with the personal stories of Australian airmen. Her specific research interests include Australian Second World War airman, particularly of the RAAF; Australian prisoners of war in the European and Japanese theatres; the emotional responses to warfare of women on the Australian home front; and the moral dilemmas encountered by airmen during the Second World War. She is currently writing a book from her 2020 thesis, and revising her first biography, Clive Caldwell Air Ace.
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