My research focuses on transnational histories of Australian migration, postwar Europe, refugees and the family, with a current focus on the refugee family in Australia during the years of 1933 to 1954. I currently lead two Australian Research Council - funded projects: Russian Immigrants and Anti-Communism in Cold War Australia, 1946-1966, and The Holocaust as an Australian Story, 1933-1954: An Intimate History. These two projects are both located in Australian migration history, with a special current focus on Jewish refugee migration to Australia. I am particularly interested in the ways in which women experienced displacement and resettlement, and how they challenged and navigated ideas about the family in Australia. 

My recent monograph Destination Elsewhere: Displaced Persons and their Quest to Leave Postwar Europe is published with Cornell University Press (November 2021) https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501760228/destination-elsewhere/#bookTabs=1. It explores the encounters of refugees with the international aid agencies, western migration agents and Allied forces after the war, and immigration to Australia. My co-authored book with Julie Kalman, Smuggled: An Illegal History of Journeys to Australia (NewSouth Publishing, 2021), explores myriad histories of refugees and their smugglers since the Holocaust: https://www.newsouthbooks.com.au/books/smuggled/ 

I welcome applications for supervision from students interested in Australian history, migration histories (including European migration history), modern Jewish history and histories of the family. 

I am also the co-lead of the UNSW Forced Migration Research Network.