Associate ProfessorBart Ziino

Over two decades I have built a reputation as a leading scholar of the First World War in Australia and internationally. I have 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.

My 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. My doctoral research provided the basis of my first book, A Distant Grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War (UWA Press, 2007) and received the Australian Historical Association's Serle Award for best thesis in Australian history. I've 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, I investigated workers in reserved occupations and protected industries in Australia during the Second World War (published with Brad Underhill).