Associate Professor Eleanor Hancock serves as an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities & Social Sciences at UNSW Canberra. She is a graduate of the Australian National University and Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her professional career commenced as a diplomat with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs from 1979 to 1984. Subsequently, she worked as a tutor in history at University College of the University of New South Wales from 1984 to 1988. From 1988 to 2001, she held positions as lecturer and senior lecturer in European and German history at Monash University, before returning to the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy in 2001, where she has remained.

Hancock's research specializations encompass Axis campaigns in Greece 1940-41, organisational behaviour and political authority in National Socialism, imperialism including the inter-relationship between imperialism and National Socialist Germany 1939-1949, and theories of National Socialism. She supervises postgraduate students in modern European history, modern German history especially Nazism, and British history. As the current editor of the War & Society journal, she oversees a prestigious publication in military history. Her major publications include the monograph Ernst Röhm: Hitler’s SA Chief of Staff (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008; paperback edition, 2011) and Swastika over the Acropolis: Re-interpreting the Nazi Invasion of Greece in World War II (co-authored with Craig Stockings, Brill, 2013). Other significant contributions feature the chapter 'Germany at War' in The Routledge History of the Second World War (Routledge, 2021), 'The purge of the SA reconsidered: "an old putschist trick"?' in Central European History (2011), 'Reconsidering the Luftwaffe in Greece, 1941' in Journal of Military History (2012), and '"Only the real, the true, the masculine held its value": Ernst Röhm, masculinity, and male homosexuality' in Journal of the History of Sexuality (1998). Her work has advanced scholarly understanding of Nazi political structures and Second World War military operations in the Mediterranean theatre.

Professional Email: e.hancock@adfa.edu.au