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Ms Nicole Townsend

Ms Nicole Townsend

Lecturer

PhD in History, 91̽»¨

Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Monash UniversityÌý

91̽»¨ Canberra
School of Humanities & Social Sciences

Dr Nicole Townsend is a Lecturer in History at 91̽»¨ Canberra, where she has taught at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Her research focuses broadly on AustralianÌý military and diplomatic history, with a particular focus on Australian relations with and strategic interests in the Middle East. She has particular expertise in Australia's involvement in the Second World War and the experiences of the Italian-Australian community during that conflict. She has also previously worked on the Official History of Australian Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, where she authored chapters on special operations; train, advise, assist missions in Iraq; logistics; and the anti-Iraq War movement in Australia.

Nicole is currently a Director of the Second World War Research Group, Asia Pacific.

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E-mail
n.townsend@unsw.edu.au
  • Book Chapters | 2023
    Townsend N, 2023, 'Introduction', in Australian Perspectives on Global Air and Space Power, Routledge, pp. 1 - 10,
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Townsend N, 2023, 'Introduction', in Australian Perspectives on Global Air and Space Power, Taylor & Francis, pp. 1 - 10,
    Book Chapters | 2023
    Yule P; Townsend N, 2023, 'Sir James Rowland and the changing strategic use of air power in Australia, 1942–1979', in Australian Perspectives on Global Air and Space Power, Routledge, pp. 34 - 45,
  • Edited Books | 2023
    Townsend N; Pandey K; Pendlebury J, (eds.), 2023, Australian Perspectives on Global Air and Space Power: Past, Present, Future, Routledge, London,
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Baker DP; Townsend N, 2024, 'Defiant heroism or wilful disobedience? John ‘Jack’ Hinton and the ethics of disobedience in war', Defence Studies, 24, pp. 349 - 364,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Townsend N, 2022, ''Kangaroos' and 'Froggies': Australian-French relations and the allied invasion of Lebanon and Syria, 1941', The French Australian Review, pp. 61 - 85
  • Conference Papers | 2024
    Townsend N, 2024, ''We cannot stress too strongly the importance we attach to holding this area’: the Middle East in the Australian official mind, 1939–41', Adelaide, presented at Australian Historical Association Annual Conference 2024, Adelaide, 01 July 2024 - 04 July 2024
    Theses / Dissertations | 2024
    Townsend N, 2024, More than a Sideshow: Australia, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East during the Second World War
    Conference Papers | 2023
    Townsend N, 2023, '"There will be no Dunkirk here": The sustainment and relief of Tobruk, 1941', Canberra, presented at In Brown and Green waters: Australian Army Operations in the Littoral, Canberra, 16 November 2023
    Conference Papers | 2022
    Townsend N, 2022, 'Fueling the nation: Australia's Economic Imperative in the Mediterranean Theatre', Melbourne, presented at Hard Fought: Australia in the Mediterranean Theatre, 1940–45, Melbourne, Melbourne, 01 April 2022
    Conference Presentations | 2021
    Townsend N, 2021, ''A thankless job for a thankless people'? French-Australian Relations and the Invasion of Lebanon and Syria, 1941', presented at Institute for the Study of French-Australian Relations, 08 April 2021 - 09 April 2021
    Conference Presentations | 2020
    Townsend N, 2020, ''The Frontline of Australian Defence': Australia and the War in the Mediterranean', presented at Heavy and Continuous Sacrifice: NZ Military Historical Committee, Wellington, 13 February 2020 - 14 February 2020
    Conference Presentations | 2019
    Townsend N, 2019, ''A situation ... dangerous beyond words'? The Australian Military Forces in the Depression, 1928–1935', presented at Towards a New Historyof the Interwar Period, Canberra, 01 September 2019
    Conference Presentations | 2019
    Townsend N, 2019, ''Ready to see it through'? Australan preparations for a second world war', presented at Preparing for Battle, University of Leeds, 21 June 2019
    Conference Presentations | 2019
    Townsend N, 2019, ''The Frontline of Australian Defence': Australia and the War in the Mediterranean', presented at Centre for the History of Violence Seminar Series, Newcastle, 02 September 2019
    Conference Presentations | 2019
    Townsend N, 2019, 'Local Events, Global Implications: The Second World War Jigsaw Puzzle', presented at King Hall Naval History Conference, Sydney, 08 October 2019
    Conference Presentations | 2018
    Townsend NL, 2018, 'Identity at war: Italian Australian experiences of otherness during the Second World War', presented at Diaspore Italiane - Italy in Movement, Co.As.It, Melbourne, 04 April 2018 - 08 May 2018
    Conference Presentations | 2017
    Townsend NL, 2017, ''They fought like demons': The British Eighth Army, the Australian 9th Division, and the disaster at Ruin Ridge, July 1942', presented at El Alamein: 75 Years On The War in the Mediterranean and the Campaign for North Africa 1942, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom, 06 September 2017 - 08 September 2017
    Theses / Dissertations | 2017
    Townsend NL, 2017, Identity at War: Race, identity and belonging in the Italian Australian community during the Second World War, Monash University
    Other | 2016
    Baracchi P (ed.), 2016, Fraternising with the enemy: British-Italian prisoner of war relations, 1939-1947, Co.As.It/Italian Historical Society, Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria
  • Media | 2021
    Townsend N, 2021, Australians in the Mediterranean,
    Media | 2020
    Townsend N, 2020, The RAN Protection Of Shipping WWII,
    Media | 2019
    Townsend N; Cook M, 2019, On Enemy Aliens,