Doctor Margarite Poulos

Doctor Margarite Poulos

Academic Program Advisor, First Year Arts,
Humanities (Arts)

Senior Lecturer in Modern European History,
Humanities (Arts)

Biography

Margarite Poulos joined the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at WSU in 2012. She received her PhD in History from the University of Sydney in 2003, for which she was awarded the Gutenberg Prize by the American Historical Association. Her first book Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity was published by Columbia University Press in 2010. She is a member of the editorial board of Twentieth Century Communism: A Journal of International History.

My research over the last two decades has focused on gender ideology as constitutive of key nation-building conflicts and political movements in the modern period, with a primary focus on Greece. My earlier work was concerned with the impact of women’s participation in armed combat on national and citizenship discourses in the context of communist led resistance during the period of Axis occupation, and, in particular, during and after the Greek Civil War. In recent years my interest has shifted to the ‘subjectivisation’ and self-understanding of the women who trained in Moscow as professional revolutionaries during the formative Comintern phase of the Greek communist movement. This research examines the ways the ways in which the Soviet revolutionary project attached itself to women, particularly Anatolian refugee youth, transplanted into Greece in the wake of the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922). My current project explores the convergence of forced migration, humanitarianism, and international sex trafficking in the wake of imperial dissolution.

Forthcoming

Refugee to Revolutionary: A Transnational History of Greek Communist Women in Interwar Europe (Vanderbilt University Press, 2024).

Latest published research

'Beyond the ballot box: Rethinking Greek communism between the Wars', European History Quarterly, vol 52, no. 1 (2022) 43-64

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Qualifications

  • PhD University of Sydney
  • MA University of Sydney
  • BEd University of Sydney

Professional Memberships

  • Modern Greek Studies Association (2005 - 2018)
  • American Historical Association (2016 - 2016)
  • Twentieth Century Communism (journal) (2022)
  • Australian Women's History Network (2016 - 2016)

Awards

  • Gutenberg Prize, American Historical Association 2004-03-18
  • Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship 2007-02-01
  • Endeavour Travelling Fellowship 2012-07-18
  • Stanley J Seeger Fellowship, Princeton University 2018-06-18

Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • Humanities (Arts)
  • Humanities (Arts)

Contact

Email: M.Poulos@westernsydney.edu.au
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Teaching

Previous Teaching Areas

  • 102000 Modern European History and Politics, 2018
  • 102003 Comparative Nationalism, 2018

Publications

Books

  • Poulos, M. (2009), 'Arms and and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek feminist Identity', : Columbia University Press 9780231135542.

Chapters in Books

  • Poulos, M. (2018), 'Politiques d'egalite des sexes apres la Resistance : repenser le pouvoir dans la Grece en guerre civile', La Resistance a l'epreuve du Genre: Hommes et Femmes dans la Resistance Antifasciste en Europe du Sud (1936-1949), Presses Universitaires de Rennes 9782753575684.

Journal Articles

  • Poulos, M. (2022), 'Beyond the ballot box : rethinking Greek communism between the wars', European History Quarterly, vol 52, no 1 , pp 43 - 64.
  • Poulos, M. (2021), 'Greek myths', History Today, vol 71, no 8 .
  • Poulos, M. (2017), 'Transnational militancy in Cold-War Europe : gender, human rights, and the WIDF during the Greek Civil War', European Review of History, vol 24, no 1 , pp 17 - 35.
  • Poulos, M. (2017), '"So that life may triumph" : communist feminism and realpolitik in Civil-War Greece', Journal of Women's History, vol 29, no 1 , pp 63 - 86.
  • Poulos, M. (2010), 'Arms and the woman : why western democracies cannot continue to exclude women from combat', Harvard International Review, .

Research in Progress

Post-war internationalism - a specific focus on the involvement of the leftist Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF) in the Greek Civil War; the WIDF campaign for communist human rights in Greece at the UN.

Biography and historiography of Greek Communist Party leader, Chryssa Hatzivasiliou (1924-1950).

Bolshevisation and gender politics in the Greek Communist Party between the Wars.

Syphilis - illness, therapy, and moral example. A project examining state discourse and policy on prostitution and syphilis in post-Civil War Greece.

Tashkent: A history of exile

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Previous Projects

Title: Contemporary European Citizenship Politics Conference
Funder:
  • Embassy of France
Western Researchers: Simon Burrows and Margarite Poulos
Years: 2016-07-01 - 2016-07-31
ID: P00023537

Media

Title: UNSW Arts Careers Week
Description: Arts academics and educators talking history
Title: BBC interview
Description: warriors of 1821
Title: WSU Supervisors: Reflections on Methodology
Description: WSU Supervisors: Reflections on Methodology
Title: HDR talk
Description: Romancing the Humanities
Title: Europe Lecture 2019
Description: Professor Joanna Bourke on the History of Sexual Violence in Europe
Title: Europe Lecture 2019
Description: Professor Joanna Bourke on the History of Sexual Violence in Europe
Title: Teaching Europe
Description: multiculturalism vs cosmopolitanism
Title: Europe Lecture 2014
Description: Richard Bosworth on Dictatorships
Title: Europe Lecture 2015
Description: Jan Zielonka on Ukraine
Title: AFR Interview about Greek crisis and Finance Minister
Description: Poulos discusses the Greek negotiations, her relationship with Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, game theory and barramundi
Title: Europe Forum: Integration and Identity
Description: European Integration and the Challenge of National Identity
Title: Europe Lecture Series
Description: History@UWS hosts the annual lecture where leading scholars and intellectuals talk contemporary Europe and share their ideas with the community
Title: Varoufakis gives UWS inaugural Europe Lecture
Description: Athens Professor of Economics Yanis Varoufakis gives the UWS inaugural Europe lecture in 2013
Title: Arms and the Woman
Description: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity

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