Professor Phillip Deery

Emeritus Professor of History
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Emeritus Professor of History
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  • is notAvailable to supervise research students at VU

Areas of expertise

  • Cold War history
  • Communist Party history
  • Espionage and intelligence history

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About

Phillip is an historian of the Cold War with a special interest in the impact of communism, anti-communism and espionage on the politics and culture of Australia, Great Britain and the United States.

Phillip was a review editor of Labour History, a guest editor of American Communist History, and a research associate with the LSE Ideas Cold War Studies Project. He has received two fellowships from New York University to undertake research into the Cold War. He has also received numerous teaching and research awards, including:

  • Fulbright Scholarship
  • British Academy award
  • Vice-Chancellor’s Medal for Excellence in Research
  • Ann Hilda-Sainsbury Award for Teaching Excellence
  • Australian Awards for University Teaching (national finalist).

Qualification

BA Hons (LaTrobe), DipEd (La Trobe), Cert American Studies (NYU), PhD (LaTrobe)

Recent publications

Phillip Deery has authored more than 100 scholarly publications in the fields of Cold War studies, intelligence and national security, labour movement history and Communist Party history. View more of Philip's publications.

Appearances in the media

Professor Deery is a regular commentator on Australian political and social history. He has appeared on several ABC and SBS documentaries and has been a radio guest on ABC 3RN’s Late Night Live, Conversations, Rear Vision, and The History Listen, as well as  WNYC and PBS (New York).

Postgraduate research supervision

Completions (principal supervisor): 16 PhD, 5 MA

Current supervision (principal supervisor): 3 PhD