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Professor Roger Markwick is an Honorary Professor in the School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Science (History) within the College of Human and Social Futures at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He joined the University in 2001, lecturing in modern European history and specializing in modern Russian and Soviet history. Markwick was awarded his PhD by the University of Sydney in 1995, where he subsequently served as Postdoctoral Fellow and Senior Research Associate. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the Australian National University, and a Master of Arts and Diploma in Education from the University of Melbourne. Promoted to Professor of Modern European History in 2015, he was Head of the School of Humanities and Social Science from 2011 to 2015. He is fluent in Russian and a member of the Australasian Association of European Historians, as well as an IntReader of high international standing for the Australian Research Council since 2006.

His research interests include modern Russian and Soviet history and historiography, fascism and imperialism, the Jewish Holocaust, Israel and the Middle East, colonial-settler states, intellectuals, historiography, and the politics of knowledge, and women and war. Key publications are Rewriting History in Soviet Russia: The Politics of Revisionist Historiography 1956-74 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2001), which won the Alexander Nove Prize for Russian and East European Studies in 2003; Russia’s Stillborn Democracy? From Gorbachev to Yeltsin (co-authored with Graeme Gill, Oxford University Press, 2000); Soviet Women on the Frontline in the Second World War (co-authored with Euridice Charon Cardona, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012); Everyday War: Exploring the Soviet Home Front, 1941-45 (co-edited with Beate Fieseler, ROSSPEN, 2019); and The Russian Revolution and Stalinism (co-edited with Graeme Gill, Routledge, 2021). He is currently editing a volume on Soviet and post-Soviet socialist dissidence and dissent commissioned by Verso Books, and a Russian-language biography of anti-Stalin oppositionist Christian Rakovsky (1873-1941). Markwick has secured $765,805 in research grants across 18 projects, including ARC Discovery grants on women, war, and the Stalinist state.