Dr Jennifer Lawless

Former Inspector of History for the NSW Board of Studies, with expertise spanning Modern and Ancient History.

 

Biography

Dr Jennifer Lawless has led tours to Turkey, Greece, Crete and Iran. Her main interest in travel is history, both ancient and more recent history such as the experiences of Australians at Gallipoli. Other cultures – and in particular their food and wine – also rate!

Jennifer has co-authored over ten books on ancient History that are widely used in senior History classes and has been awarded a number of scholarships and awards for writing and research, including a Churchill Fellowship, an Endeavor Research Fellowship for Turkey, and a NSW Premiers Award for History. Jennifer has lectured in History teaching method at Sydney, Macquarie and Western Sydney universities and was the Board of Studies History Inspector for 13 years.

Her PhD concerned the experiences of the Australians captured as POWs during the Gallipoli campaign. This involved almost ten years of research and travelling over 8,000 kilometres through Turkey, locating the main POW camp sites. Ottoman documents that had never been translated into English before formed a solid basis for the research.

 Get to know Jennifer

Hear from Dr Jennifer Lawless on our podcast, The Thinking Traveller, as she discusses the little known fate of the small number of ANZAC's taken prisoner during the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915.