I teach defence studies and war and society in the Centre for Defence and Security Studies, Massey University, New Zealand. My research interests traverse historical and contemporary military operations and air power, and the connectedness between armed forces and society.
My education includes a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in History from the University of New England, Australia, a PhD in History from the University of New South Wales, and both a Postgraduate Diploma in Museum Studies and a Postgraduate Certificate in Tertiary Teaching and Learning from Massey University.
Experience
–present
Senior Lecturer, Massey University
Education
2021
Massey University, Postgraduate Certificate in Tertiary Teaching and Learning
2018
Massey University, Postgraduate Diploma in Museum Studies
2000
University of New South Wales, PhD in History
1993
University of New England, Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in History
Publications
2022
The Origins of Royal New Zealand Air Force Maritime Operations: An Overview to 1942, Journal of the Royal New Zealand Air Force
2022
The Tommy Gun in Jungle Warfare: The Use and Usefulness of the Thompson Submachine for Australian Soldiers on the Kokoda Trail, New Guinea, 1942, Vulcan: The International Journal of the Social History of Military Technology
2021
[chapter] The Royal New Zealand Air Force and American Supply in the South Pacific during the Second World War, Allies in Air Power: A History of Multinational Air Operations
2019
[chapter] Another Country’s Flag, Another Country’s Servicemen: Rosenthal’s Photograph and Commemoration of the US Marine Corps in Australia and New Zealand, Investigating Iwo: The Flag Raisings in Myth, Memory, and Esprit de Corps
2019
[chapter] No written word can express the sympathy of a spoken word’: Casualty Telegrams after the Battle for Bardia, 1941, Expressions of War in Australia and the Pacific: Language, Trauma, Memory and Official Discourse