Vesna Drapac

She is an Australian of Croatian background. She was an undergraduate at the University of Adelaide and undertook postgraduate studies as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford where she completed her Doctorate. Her research interests include modern French religious and cultural history, the history of Yugoslavia and the social history of the Second World War. She has a secondary research interest in Australian immigration history. Her publications include the books War and Religion: Catholics in the Churches of Occupied Paris, Constructing Yugoslavia: A Transnational History and, with Gareth Pritchard, Resistance and Collaboration in Hitler's Empire. She is Associate Professor of History at the University of Adelaide.

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6739-724X

BOOKS

PUBLICATION

Drapac, V. (1998). War and religion: Catholics in the churches of occupied Paris. The Catholic University of America Press.

Drapac, V. (1998). British perceptions of "Savage Europe" and the invention of Yugoslavia. In Modern Europe: Histories and Identities (pp. 15–24). Australian Humanities Press.

Drapac, V. (2001). Croatian Australians today. In The Australian people: An encyclopedia of the nation, its people and their origins (pp. 246–249). Cambridge University Press.

Drapac, V. (2004). Religion, captivity and the 'resistance myth' in three early films of Robert Bresson. In G. Burgess (Ed.), Revolution, nation and memory: Papers from the George Rude Seminar in French History 2002 (pp. 250–263). University of Tasmania.

Drapac, V. (2006). Cardinal Baudrillart. In Encyclopedia of modern Christian politics (p. 39). Greenwood Press.

Drapac, V. (2006). Cardinal Saliege. In Encyclopedia of modern Christian politics (pp. 483–484). Greenwood Press.

Drapac, V. (2006). Marshal Petain. In Encyclopedia of modern Christian politics. Greenwood Press.

Drapac, V. (2007). Whatever happened to 'resistance'? Speculation on the demise of the resistance ideal. In P. Aldrich (Ed.), Proceedings of AAEH Sydney 2007 (pp. 313–330). University of Sydney.

Drapac, V. (2010). Constructing Yugoslavia: A transnational history. Palgrave Macmillan.

Drapac, V. (2011). Yugoslav studies and the East–West dichotomy. In A. Maxwell (Ed.), The East–West discourse: Symbolic geography and its consequences (pp. 93–125). Peter Lang Publishing.

Drapac, V. (2014). Catholic resistance and collaboration in the Second World War: From master narrative to practical application. In S. Rutar (Ed.), Beyond the Balkans: Towards an inclusive history of Southeastern Europe (pp. 279–322). Lit Verlag.

Drapac, V. (2014). Lessons of history? In W. Prest (Ed.), Pasts present: History at Australia’s third university (pp. 231–243). Wakefield Press.

Drapac, V. (2017). Reimagining the Yugoslav Partisan epic. In P. Dwyer (Ed.), War stories: The war memoir in history and literature (pp. 168–192). Berghahn.

Drapac, V., & Pritchard, G. (2017). Resistance and collaboration in Hitler’s empire. Palgrave.

Drapac, V. (2021). Collaboration and resistance in the East: Explaining a contested past. In P. Bartrop (Ed.), The Routledge history of the Second World War (pp. 495–510). Routledge.

Drapac, V. (2021). Teaching about war and genocide. In A. Nye & J. Clark (Eds.), Teaching history for the contemporary world: Tensions, challenges and classroom experiences in higher education (pp. 153–169). Springer.

Drapac, V., & Hrstić, I. (2023). Croatian Australian identity and soccer since 1945. In J. W. Kassing & S. Lee (Eds.), Football and diaspora: Connecting dispersed communities through the global game (pp. 50–70). Routledge.

Pritchard, G., & Drapac, V. (2024). Paramilitarism and European society in the 1940s: Regimes of violence (Vol. Part F4095). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50088-8

Page updated

Google Sites

Report abuse