Dr Debbie Lackerstein
Lecturer
History Program
Phone: +61 2 6268 8877
Fax: +61 2 6268 8879
Email: d.lackerstein@adfa.edu.au
Professional Background
I am a graduate of the University of Adelaide where I completed my PhD on Vichy France under the German Occupation and taught modern European history. Since my appointment to UNSW @ ADFA I have taught many courses in European and world history, with a particular emphasis on world wars and genocide.
Courses Taught
- History 1A and History 1B (in various forms from the birth of the modern world to the end of the twentieth century)
- The Rise and Fall of Great Powers 1789-1945
- The European Powers 1871-1914
- The Great Power System in the Twentieth Century
- The Second World War
- Genocide: Crime of Crimes
- Genocide: Problems of Perception and Intervention
- Strategic Studies
Research Interests / Projects
- The Second World War
- Occupied Europe, 1939-1945
- The Holocaust
- French History
- Vichy France
- Resistance
- Intellectual and political history of the 1930s and 1940s
- Genocide in the Twentieth Century
- Forthcoming publication Regeneration in Vichy France: Ideas For Renewal, 1930-1945
- My current research project examines different perspectives on the liberation of the camps in the final stages of the European war, 1945.
Areas of Potential Postgraduate Supervision
- The Second World War, especially: the war in Europe; collaboration and resistance
- Genocides in the twentieth century, especially aspects of the Holocaust and comparative genocide
- French history, especially: France in the 1930s; Vichy France and the German occupation; intellectual history of the 1930s and 40s