Dr Vesna Drapac

• Journals

  Year	Citation
  2024	Drapac, V. (2024). A Theresian Moment: French Catholics and the Spirituality of the Ordinary in the 1930s*. Journal of Religious History, 48(1), 38-54. DOI
  2021	Drapac, V. (2021). French Catholic Men at War 1939–1940: A Study of Faith and Masculinity in the Field. Gender & History, 34(2), 458-475. DOI
  2017	Drapac, V. (2017). Croatian anti-fascism in the Second World War: an Australian perspective. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 63(2), 163-186. DOI Scopus2
  2015	Drapac, V., & Pritchard, G. (2015). Beyond resistance and collaboration: towards a social history of politics in Hitler's empire. Journal of Social History, 48(4), 865-891. DOI Scopus7
  2015	Drapac, V. (2015). Catholic attitudes to peace and war at the time of the Munich Agreement. French History and Civilization: papers from the George Rude Seminar, 6, 253-266.
  2015	Bourke, J., Darian-Smith, K., Finch, S., Drapac, V., Gare, D., Sowerwine, C., . . . Russell, L. (2015). Exhibition Reviews. History Australia, 12(1), 233-256. DOI
  2014	Drapac, V. (2014). The devotion of French prisoners of war and requisitioned workers to Thérèse of Lisieux: transcending the ‘Diocese behind Barbed Wire’. Journal of War & Culture Studies, 7(3), 283-296. DOI Scopus1
  2013	Drapac, V. (2013). Recasting the heroic resistance ideal: Robert Bresson’s Un condamné à mort s’est échappé. French Cultural Studies, 24(4), 376-397. DOI
  2011	Drapac, V. (2011). Thérèse of Lisieux: the appeal of a French saint at a time of international crisis. French History and Civilization: papers from the George Rude Seminar, 4, 118-132.
  2009	Drapac, V. (2009). Women, resistance and the politics of daily life in Hitler's Europe: The case of Yugoslavia in a comparative perspective. Aspasia, 3(1), 55-78. DOI
  2009	Drapac, V. (2009). Active citizenship in multicultural Australia: the Croation experience. Humanities Research, 15(1), 49-76.
  2005	Drapac, V. (2005). The memory of war and the history of the first Yugoslavia. War & Society, 23(1), 23-41. DOI
  2005	Drapac, V. (2005). A king is killed in Marseille: France and Yugoslavia in 1934. French History and Civilization, 1, 226-235.
  2005	Drapac, V. (2005). Perceptions of Post-WWII Croatian immigrants: The South Australian case. Croatian Studies Review, 3-4, 27-39.
  2003	Drapac, V. (2003). Catholicism, politics and society in twentieth-century France. Journal of Religious History, 27(1), 113-115.
  2001	Drapac, V. (2001). The end of Yugoslavia. Contemporary European History, 10(2), 317-331. DOI
  1999	Drapac, V. (1999). Bresson's Les Anges du Peche: a Film of No Interest to Historians?. Australian Journal of French Studies, 36(1), 89-100. DOI
  1996	Drapac, V. (1996). Religion in a dechristianised world: French Catholic responses to war and occupation. Journal of European Studies, 26(4), 389-416. DOI Scopus1
  1996	Drapac, V. (1996). Christians and Conservatives in twentieth-century France. Historical Journal, 39(3), 845-851. DOI

• Books

  Year	Citation
  2017	Drapac, V., & Pritchard, G. (2017). Resistance and Collaboration in Hitler's Empire. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave.
  2010	Drapac, V. (2010). Constructing Yugoslavia: A transnational history. United Kingdom: Palgrave MacMillan.
  1998	Drapac, V. (1998). War and Religion: Catholics in the Churches of Occupied Paris. The Catholic University of America Press.

• Book Chapters

  Year	Citation
  2023	Drapac, V., & Hrstić, I. (2023). Croatian Australian Identity and Soccer Since 1945. In Football and Diaspora: Connecting Dispersed Communities through the Global Game (pp. 50-70). Routledge. DOI
  2021	Drapac, V. (2021). Collaboration and Resistance in the East: Explaining a contested past. In P. Bartrop (Ed.), The Routledge History of the Second World War (pp. 495-510). Oxon, UK: Routledge. DOI Scopus1
  2021	Drapac, V. (2021). Teaching about War and Genocide. In A. Nye, & J. Clark (Eds.), Teaching History for the Contemporary World: Tensions, Challenges and Classroom Experiences in Higher Education (pp. 153-169). Singapore: Springer. DOI
  2017	Drapac, V. (2017). Reimagining the Yugoslav Partisan Epic. In P. Dwyer (Ed.), War Stories: The War Memoir in History and Literature (pp. 168-192). New York: Berghahn.
  2014	Drapac, V. (2014). Lessons of History?. In W. Prest (Ed.), Pasts Present: History at Australia's Third University (1 ed., pp. 231-243). Australia: Wakefield Press.
  2014	Drapac, V. (2014). Catholic resistance and collaboration in the Second World War: From master narrative to practical application. In Rutar, S (Ed.), Beyond the Balkans: Towards an Inclusive History of Southeastern Europe (1 ed., pp. 279-322). Zurich and Berlin: Lit Verlag.
  2011	Drapac, V. (2011). Yugoslav Studies and the East-West Dichotomy. In A. Maxwell (Ed.), The East-West Discourse: Symbolic Geography and its Consequences (1 ed., pp. 93-125). Switzerland: Peter Lang Publishing.
  2006	Drapac, V. (2006). Marshal Petain. In Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Politics. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
  2006	Drapac, V. (2006). Cardinal Saliege. In Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Politics (pp. 483-484). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
  2006	Drapac, V. (2006). Cardinal Baudrillart. In Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Politics (pp. 39). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
  2001	Drapac, V. (2001). Croatian Australians Today. In The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation, Its People and Their Origins (pp. 246-249). Cambridge University Press.
  1998	Drapac, V. (1998). British perceptions of "Savage Europe" and the invention of Yugoslavia. In Modern Europe: Histories and Identities (pp. 15-24). Australian Humanities Press.

• Conference Papers

  Year	Citation
  2007	Drapac, V. (2007). Whatever happened to 'resistance'? Speculation on the demise of the resistance ideal. In P. Aldrich (Ed.), Proceedings of AAEH Sydney 2007 (pp. 313-330). Sydney: University of Sydney.
  2004	Drapac, V. (2004). Religion, captivity and the 'resistance myth' in three early films of Robert Bresson. In G. Burgess (Ed.), Revolution, Nation and Memory: Papers from the George Rude Seminar in French History 2002 (pp. 250-263). Tasmania, Hobart: University of Tasmania.

• Curated or Produced Public Exhibition or Events

  Year	Citation
  2018	Drapac, V., Dzino, A., Heruc, M., Hrstic, I., Klaric, K., & Sullivan, N. (2018). 'Croatians in South Australia: Community and Identity Since 1945' (No. Of Pieces: Six months) [Curation of an exhibition]. Migration Museum Adelaide.

The undergraduate courses I have developed and convene include Fascism and Natonal Socialism, Reel History: World War II in film, Ethnic Cleansing and Genoicde in World History, and Modern France: From Revolution to Resistance.

HIST 2057 - Fascism and National Socialism

Extreme right wing ideologies of the twentieth century and European social movements or parties that claimed to be based on them provide the focus of this course. Broadly, it covers the period 1900-1945. Major themes discussed in lectures and seminars include the intellectual and cultural origins of fascism; political and social dislocation following World War I; Italian fascism, its nature, its appeal and its leaders; the distinguishing features of National Socialism in Germany (notably anti-Semitism and policies of exclusion and repression); social and cultural life in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany (with particular emphasis on young people, women and the Churches); and degrees of cooperation, collaboration and resistance in occupied Europe. We will also discuss the changing perceptions of Fascism over time and current debates on its nature.

HIST 2054 - Reel History: World War II in Film

The aim of this course is to explore the relationship between the past and its representation on film with particular emphasis on World War II. It takes various themes in the history of the war to examine how film has represented, reconstructed and interpreted the mid-twentieth century crisis. The course compares feature and documentary films with more traditional historical texts and sources in order to chart how filmmakers have approached the war. Why did some aspects of the war draw more attention than others? How did different people address the same subjects? Who has been responsible for shaping our understanding of the war and why was so much invested in its recreation on the screen? Students will address such questions and should complete the course with an understanding of the influence of film on popular perceptions of the war and an awareness of the dynamic process of remembering and forgetting history that is inherent in the production of historical films.

HIST 2058 - Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide in History

This course will explore the nature of ethnic cleansing and genocide and seek to discover the common historical, political and sociological threads that unite these tragedies. Students will analyse and discuss a series of case studies including, among others: the near extermination of First Nations people by colonisers of the New World, the Armenian genocide, the man-made famine in Ukraine, the Holocaust, the displacement of peoples in the aftermath of the Second World War in Europe and Africa, the Cambodian genocide and the case of ethnic cleansing and genocide during the wars of Yugoslav succession.

The Honours courses I convene include, Resistance and Collaboration in World War II and Living the Second World War in Europe.

• Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2022	Co-Supervisor	Antisemitism in modern Australia	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mrs Jasmine Louise Beinart
  2021	Co-Supervisor	Artistic Communities and Non-Profit Responses to the HIV/AIDS Crisis in New York City	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Caitlin Amy Merlin

• Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2020 - 2024	Co-Supervisor	An Inquiry into Responses to Bushfires in South Australia from the 1820s to Federation	Master of Philosophy	Master	Part Time	Ms Elizabeth Mary Bor
  2019 - 2024	Principal Supervisor	Ludohistorical Thinking: Gaming the Gap between Academic and Popular Histories	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Tamika Glouftsis
  2019 - 2023	Principal Supervisor	‘Three Great Forces are at Work Trying to Control Events’: Australian Anglican Views on the League of Nations, Communism, and Fascism, 1927-1939	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Alexander Charles Parsons
  2019 - 2021	Principal Supervisor	“I will not maintain you”: Understanding Economic Abuse in South Australia, 1859-1893	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Miss Claire Elizabeth Morey
  2018 - 2020	Co-Supervisor	Anglo-American Responses to German War Technology in World War II	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Thomas Stephen East
  2017 - 2021	Principal Supervisor	Hear the Lion Roar: Trade Unionism at General Motors-Holden's in South Australia, 1930-1980	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Mr David Justin Chadwick
  2015 - 2018	Principal Supervisor	'Everybody's Favourite Fascist': An Examination of the Figure of José Antonio Primo de Rivera within the Historiography of Spanish Fascism	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Alexander Charles Parsons
  2013 - 2015	Co-Supervisor	British Migrants in Post-War South Australia: Expectations and Lived Experiences	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Justin Anthony Madden
  2012 - 2015	Co-Supervisor	The political role of the Catholic Church in Poland under Martial Law, 1981-1983	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Jessica Jocher
  2012 - 2018	Principal Supervisor	Communist Women's Resistance in Occupied Paris: Engagement, Activism and Continuities from the 1930s to 1945	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Amy Victoria Morrison
  2011 - 2017	Co-Supervisor	Anglo-American Discourse About the USSR, 1984-1986	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Ms Melody Watson
  2004 - 2013	Principal Supervisor	Australian Immigration and Migrant Assimilation 1945 to 1960	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Ms Kristy Ann Kokegei
  2004 - 2009	Co-Supervisor	War, Politics and Morality, The Spanish Catholic Church and World War II	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Gerald Varley
  2003 - 2009	Principal Supervisor	'You Can't Make Owt from Nowt': Official Responses to the Impact of Unemployment Upon the Community in the Lancashire Weaving Area in the Early 1930's	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Ms Ellen Hall
  2001 - 2007	Principal Supervisor	Pan-German Identity and the Press in Austria, 1933-1938	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Dr Julie Thorpe
  2000 - 2005	Principal Supervisor	ANZAC CULTURE: A South Australian case study of Australian identity and commemoration of war dead	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Ms Janice Gwenllian Pavils
  2000 - 2010	Principal Supervisor	Utopian Aspirations in Fascist Ideology: English and French Literary Perspectives 1914-1945	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Ashley Thomas

• Board Memberships

  Date	Role	Board name	Institution name	Country
  2019 - ongoing	Board Member	History Trust of South Australia	History Trust of South Australia	Australia
  2012 - 2015	-	South Australian Ethnic Affairs Commission	-	-
  2010 - ongoing	Board Member	Croatian Studies Review	Macquarie University	Australia
  2006 - 2012	Member	Aquinas College Council	-	-

• Position: Associate Professor
• Phone: 83135821
• Email: vesna.drapac@adelaide.edu.au
• Fax: 83134341
• Campus: North Terrace
• Building: Napier, floor 3
• Org Unit: School of Humanities