Australia
Dr Tristan Moss is a senior lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, UNSW Canberra. He is a historian researching Australian space history and the history of the ADF with a focus on its culture and policy. His current research focuses on a history of Australian space activities, 1957 – 2020, and he is also working on a history of sex in the Australian military. He is the author of Guarding the Periphery: The Australian Army in Papua New Guinea, 1951–75 (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and co-editor of Beyond Combat: Australian military activity away from the battlefields (NewSouth Books, 2018). Tristan has worked on the Official History of Australian operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and East Timor at the Australian War Memorial and on the Official History of peacekeeping. Tristan is a Fulbright Senior Scholar, (Fulbright Professional Scholarship in Australian-U.S. Alliance Studies, sponsored by DFAT) and winner of a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award, titled 'Australia and Space: Government policy and public imagination, 1957 – 2021’ and a CI on a Discovery Project exploring a history of sex in the Australian Defence Force, 1914 - 2020. Dr Moss has contributed to a number of edited volumes and edited two with Tom Richardson: New Directions in War and History (Big Sky, 2016) and Beyond Combat: Australian Military Activity Away From the Battlefield (NewSouth, 2018). Dr Moss is a Deputy Regional Coordinator (Asia) for the Society of Military History. His research focuses on Australian military history, particularly post-45, and he is currently working on a project on the history of Australian space policy.