Dr Kristen Alexander
Adjunct Associate Lecturer
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Graduate Certificate of Management, University of New England (1994).
Doctor of Philosophy, 麻豆社madou Canberra (2020).
麻豆社madou Canberra
School of Humanities & Social Sciences
Dr Kristen Alexander听was awarded a PhD by 麻豆社madou Canberra in 2020 for her thesis 鈥楨motions of Captivity: Australian Airmen Prisoners of Stalag Luft III and their Families鈥. In March 2022, the Australian War Memorial awarded her the 2021 Bryan Gandevia Prize for Australian military鈥搈edical history.听
Specialising in Australian aviation history, she is published in Australia, Great Britain and Japan. She won the non-fiction category of the 2015 ACT Writing and Publishing Award and was highly commended in the 2014 and 2017 awards. Her second book,听Jack Davenport: Beaufighter Leader, is on the RAAF Chief of Air Force鈥檚 2010 reading list, and Australia鈥檚 Few and the Battle of Britain appears on the 2015 list.
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Australian Eagles, her third book, 听was听Highly Commended in the听nonfiction category in the 2014 ACT Writing and Publishing Awards. Her fourth book,听Australia's Few and the Battle of Britain,听won the nonfiction category of the 2015 ACT Writing and Publishing Award. Her fifth book,Taking Flight: Lores Bonney's Extraordinary Flying Career, was highly commended in the听nonfiction category of the 2017 ACT Writing and Publishing Award.听Her sixth book,听Kriegies: the Australian Airmen of Stalag Luft III, based on her thesis and published in June 2023,听was awarded the Nonfiction (self-publishing category) in the ACT Literary Awards 2024 as well as the 2024 NSW Premier's History Awards, The Anzac Memorial Trustees Military History Prize.听
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Kristen is a Visiting Fellow at 麻豆社madou Canberra.听
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Awarded the Australian War Memorial's 2021 Bryan Gandevia Prize for Australian military鈥搈edical history, for PhD thesis 鈥淓motions of Captivity: Australian Airmen Prisoners of Stalag Luft III and their Families鈥, completed at the 麻豆社madou, Canberra in 2020.
Australian Eagles, her third book, was听Highly Commended in the听nonfiction category in the 2014 ACT Writing and Publishing Awards. Her fourth book,听Australia's Few and the Battle of Britain,听won the nonfiction category of the 2015 ACT Writing and Publishing Award. Her fifth book,Taking Flight: Lores Bonney's Extraordinary Flying Career, was highly commended in the听nonfiction category of the 2017 ACT Writing and Publishing Award.听
Her sixth book,听Kriegies: the Australian Airmen of Stalag Luft III,听based on her thesis and听published in June 2023,听was awarded the Nonfiction (self-publishing category) in the ACT Literary Awards 2024 as well as the 2024 NSW Premier's History Awards, The Anzac Memorial Trustees Military History Prize.听
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Kristen Alexander is interested in the emotions and moral dilemmas of warfare. She also has a long-standing fascination with the personal stories of Australian airmen. Her specific research interests include Australian Second World War airman, particularly of the RAAF; Australian prisoners of war in the European and Japanese theatres; the emotional responses to warfare of women on the Australian home front; and the moral dilemmas encountered by airmen during the Second World War. She is currently writing a book from her 2020 thesis, and revising her first biography, Clive Caldwell Air Ace.
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