Jayne Persian
@drjpersian.bsky.social
Historian. mainly post-WW2 displaced persons. migration. dabbles in the far right.
Books: Fascists in Exile; Beautiful Balts. Co-editor: Histories of Fascism & Anti-Fascism in Australia.
Books: Fascists in Exile; Beautiful Balts. Co-editor: Histories of Fascism & Anti-Fascism in Australia.
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February 13, 2026 at 4:39 AM
Does anyone have experience with embedding an exhibition as an assessable part of traditional history thesis?
February 12, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Does anyone have experience with embedding an exhibition as an assessable part of traditional history thesis?
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Can't "move past the blank page" on your research?
Maybe you shouldn't be a researcher.
Maybe you shouldn't be a researcher.
February 12, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Can't "move past the blank page" on your research?
Maybe you shouldn't be a researcher.
Maybe you shouldn't be a researcher.
Why would my international registered post envelope still be sitting in Brisbane when I posted it on the 4th? 🧐
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Why would my international registered post envelope still be sitting in Brisbane when I posted it on the 4th? 🧐
Gosh this sort of thing annoys me. See Karen Agutter's brilliant article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 12, 2026 at 4:25 AM
Gosh this sort of thing annoys me. See Karen Agutter's brilliant article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
No surprises here - university staff responses re psychosocial safety climate
February 12, 2026 at 3:52 AM
No surprises here - university staff responses re psychosocial safety climate
Albo wants to "turn the temperature down" horse might have bolted on that one mate
February 10, 2026 at 4:28 AM
Albo wants to "turn the temperature down" horse might have bolted on that one mate
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Extraordinary footage. Police pulling off people engaged in peaceful prayer.
February 9, 2026 at 10:03 AM
Extraordinary footage. Police pulling off people engaged in peaceful prayer.
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Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
news.wisc.edu
February 9, 2026 at 4:46 AM
Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
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Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.
February 9, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.
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A long time in the making, @booklearning.bsky.social and I have published this article in AJPH on exploring the question of who joins far right political groups, using membership application forms for the National Front of Australia in the 1970s-80s. 🧵
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Who Makes the Far Right? Exploring Membership Application Data of the National Front of Australia
This paper addresses a problem for scholars examining the question of who supports far right political parties or movements. Due to the semi-clandestine or oppositional nature of far right groups, hi....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:25 AM
A long time in the making, @booklearning.bsky.social and I have published this article in AJPH on exploring the question of who joins far right political groups, using membership application forms for the National Front of Australia in the 1970s-80s. 🧵
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Vale, Jon Kudelka.
And as always, Fuck Cancer.
And as always, Fuck Cancer.
February 9, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Vale, Jon Kudelka.
And as always, Fuck Cancer.
And as always, Fuck Cancer.
Dripfeeding weekly episodes should be outlawed at this point
February 7, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Dripfeeding weekly episodes should be outlawed at this point
if only there were working class academics 🙃
In the age of ‘whitened, straightened, veneered smiles’, the distance between ruined poor teeth and healthy, wealthy teeth is growing.
What our teeth reveal about the growing gap between rich and poor
theconversation.com
February 7, 2026 at 8:40 AM
if only there were working class academics 🙃
An excellent episode, @ankahajkova.bsky.social is the real deal 🙌
On this episode, I talked with @ankahajkova.bsky.social about her remarkable book on queer Jewish lives during the Holocaust.
We had a great discussion about the challenges and complexities of queering the Holocaust and what it teaches us.
Check it out!
thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...
We had a great discussion about the challenges and complexities of queering the Holocaust and what it teaches us.
Check it out!
thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...
Ep. 71. Queering the Holocaust with Anna Hájková - The Holocaust History Podcast
An important part of researching the Holocaust is recovering the stories of the diverse group of victims of the Nazi genocidal project. For a very long time, queer victims have been marginalized...
thhp.buzzsprout.com
February 6, 2026 at 10:18 AM
An excellent episode, @ankahajkova.bsky.social is the real deal 🙌
brb, just removing CAPITALS and "don't you know who I am"s from my response to reviewers 🤣
February 6, 2026 at 2:55 AM
brb, just removing CAPITALS and "don't you know who I am"s from my response to reviewers 🤣
This is from the Herald Sun but these allegations are horrific
Holocaust simulations, mock graves and dog collars: Inside summer camp of horrors
www.thechronicle.com.au/education/re...
Holocaust simulations, mock graves and dog collars: Inside summer camp of horrors
www.thechronicle.com.au/education/re...
www.thechronicle.com.au
February 4, 2026 at 11:50 PM
This is from the Herald Sun but these allegations are horrific
Holocaust simulations, mock graves and dog collars: Inside summer camp of horrors
www.thechronicle.com.au/education/re...
Holocaust simulations, mock graves and dog collars: Inside summer camp of horrors
www.thechronicle.com.au/education/re...
Another contender for Australian of the Year & amazing 13yo of the year!!
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
Mother says sending son to swim 4km for help 'one of the hardest decisions'
A WA mother says asking her teenage son to swim four kilometres through rough seas to get help after their family was swept out to sea, was "one of the hardest decisions" she has ever made.
www.abc.net.au
February 3, 2026 at 9:11 AM
Another contender for Australian of the Year & amazing 13yo of the year!!
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
The border of Croatia and Serbia is absolutely where I would plonk my micro state
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
'We will be recognised': 21-year-old Australian backs his micronation
Daniel Jackson claims to be the youngest president in the world. The problem is that no other countries recognise him.
www.abc.net.au
February 1, 2026 at 3:07 AM
The border of Croatia and Serbia is absolutely where I would plonk my micro state
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
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For further information on the history of the far right in Australia, as well as those who have opposed it, I have uploaded the intro to our book 'Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia' here.
@drjpersian.bsky.social
www.academia.edu/121035689/Hi...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
@drjpersian.bsky.social
www.academia.edu/121035689/Hi...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
January 30, 2026 at 10:59 PM
For further information on the history of the far right in Australia, as well as those who have opposed it, I have uploaded the intro to our book 'Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia' here.
@drjpersian.bsky.social
www.academia.edu/121035689/Hi...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
@drjpersian.bsky.social
www.academia.edu/121035689/Hi...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Barrel jeans are a joke, right?
February 1, 2026 at 2:22 AM
Barrel jeans are a joke, right?
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Applications due 15 March 🚨 for projects including immigration & multiculturalism
Malcolm Fraser Research Grant @unimelb.bsky.social share.google/M9rlWtlbX2tg...
Malcolm Fraser Research Grant @unimelb.bsky.social share.google/M9rlWtlbX2tg...
Malcolm Fraser Research Grant
Malcolm Fraser Research Grant
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January 28, 2026 at 6:01 AM
Applications due 15 March 🚨 for projects including immigration & multiculturalism
Malcolm Fraser Research Grant @unimelb.bsky.social share.google/M9rlWtlbX2tg...
Malcolm Fraser Research Grant @unimelb.bsky.social share.google/M9rlWtlbX2tg...
Reading an archivist's takedown of the 'bungling, misunderstandings and conflicts' in the post-war DP screening space lol
January 28, 2026 at 4:03 AM
Reading an archivist's takedown of the 'bungling, misunderstandings and conflicts' in the post-war DP screening space lol
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Astronomers have spotted runaway black holes screaming through space, leaving trails of stars in in their wake.
New fear unlocked: runaway black holes
theconversation.com
January 28, 2026 at 3:57 AM
Astronomers have spotted runaway black holes screaming through space, leaving trails of stars in in their wake.
Anyone want to add - a thread of our FABULOUS papers that have not even once *gulp* been cited
👻 read me 👻 cite me 👻
Oral Histories of Displaced Persons: “What for? The Story Like Mine’s Plenty Now”
Hit me up for a pdf 🙌
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Oral Histories of Displaced Persons: “What for? The Story Like Mine’s Plenty Now”
Hit me up for a pdf 🙌
share.google/rzlMLuRYav3i...
Oral Histories of Displaced Persons: “What for? The Story Like Mine’s Plenty Now”
This chapter takes as its subject the memories of the 170,000 displaced persons (DPs)—predominantly Central and Eastern Europeans—who arrived in Australia as International Refugee Organiza...
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January 27, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Anyone want to add - a thread of our FABULOUS papers that have not even once *gulp* been cited