Greek Australian Professor Joy Damousi was recognized with the highest academic award in Australia, i.e. the ARC Laureate Fellowship, for her world-class research into the history of child migration, Neos Kosmos newspaper reports.

Professor Damousi joins only 15 other distinguished researchers around the country in receiving this award, which is announced by the Australian Research Council (ARC).

It should be noted that she is the first female academic of the University of Melbourne to win this prestigious accolade and also the first awarded in the humanities department of the same university.

As a Professor of History at the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, Joy Damousi’s academic interests range from war and trauma to post-war Greek migration to Australia and child refugees from 1920 to the present day.

Her research also focuses on the ways that the Australian government handled those children and also on ways in which the past can contribute to the improvement of current and future approaches to humanitarian immigration.

Professor Damousi told Neos Kosmos newspaper that she was delighted to receive the news about the award, that will add an extra momentum to her enthusiasm for the research of child migration.

Via: neoskosmos.com