Resilient Humanitarianism

About the Author

Melanie Oppenheimer is Honorary Professor of History at The Australian National University and Emeritus Professor at Flinders University and author of All Work, No Pay: Australian Civilian Volunteers in War. Her research covers voluntary work, gender and war and she is the centenary historian of the Australian Red Cross. Neville Wylie is Professor of International History at the University of Stirling and author of Barbed Wire Diplomacy: Britain, Germany, and the Politics of Prisoners of War 1939–1945. He was one of the first independent scholars to consult the ICRC archives in the early 1990s. Susanne Schech is Emeritus Professor of Geography at Flinders University and author of Culture and Development: A Critical Introduction (2000). Her research contributes to critical development geographies on race and whiteness, humanitarian migration and resettlement, and the politics of international volunteering. Romain Fathi is Associate Professor in History at the Australian National University and an affiliated researcher at the Centre d'Histoire de Sciences Po. He is author of The Red Cross's Public Health Turn. His research focusses on the First World War, the history of public health, and the treatment of human remains in conflicts. Jordan Evans is an early career researcher in the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at Flinders University. His research investigates the history of blood transfusion in the 20th century and its intersections with humanitarianism, technology, and decolonisation.