Christine Winter
Areas of expertise
- Pacific History (Excl. New Zealand And Maori) 210313
- Australian History (Excl. Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander History) 210303
- Gender Specific Studies 169901
- European History (Excl. British, Classical Greek And Roman) 210307
- Biography 210304
Research interests
- 19th and 20th Century European and Pacific History
- Transnational History
- German Diaspora Studies
- Colonialism and its legacies
- Humanitarianism
- Scientific theories and politics of ‘race’.
Biography
Since 2013 Christine Winter is ARC Future Fellow, REGS (Race and Ethnicity in the Global South), University of Sydney. Christine is a transnational historian, analyzing Pacific-European relations during the late 19th, and 20th century. Christine’s current research analyses scientific theories, identity and politics of mixed-race German Diasporas in the Global South.
The present project continues her interest in politics and identity transformation at the intersection of race and scientific knowledge production.
Christine Winter completed her PhD at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University in 2005. In 2010 Christine was awarded a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Queensland, researching Legacies of the German Empire in Oceania: the transformation of German identity during the inter-war years.
Researcher's projects
Current projects
- German Mixed-Race Diasporas in the Global South: Science, politics and identity transformation.
- ‘Aryan-related’: Polynesian—German relations and the struggle ofJapanese—Germans for racial exemption.
- From War trophies to Curios: ethnographic objects from Ex-German New Guinea. With Barry Craig, Museum of South Australia and Ron Vanderwal.
- Dilemmas of Humanitarianism in the Asia Pacific region, 1941-1965 - with Professor Tessa Morris Suzuki and Dr Keiko Tamura.
For updates see:
http://raceandethnicityintheglobalsouth.wordpress.com
For a short CV see:
http://api.profiles.sydney.edu.au/AcademicProfiles/profile/resource?urlid=christine.winter&type=cv
for a full publication list see:
http://www.uq.edu.au/hprc/docs/Publications/WINTER%20Christine%20-%20publications%202014.pdf
for German online recordings see:
Christine Winter & Gabriele Richter: Über Professor Hank Nelson: Erinnerungen; Remembering Hank Nelson - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8VOlDoLQCQ
Reinhard Wendt & Christine Winter: Video „Deutschsein in der Südsee“
http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/geschichte/aktuelles/lg3/video_mai2011.shtml
Publications
- Winter, C 2015, 'National Socialism and the German (Mixed-Race) Diasporas in Oceania', in Michael Mann and Jürgen G. Nagel (ed.), Europa jenseits der Grenzen, Draupadi Verlag, Heidelberg, pp. 227-251.
- Winter, C 2012, Looking after one's own: the rise of Nationalism and the Politics of the Neuendettelsauer Mission in Australia, New Guinea and Germany (1921-1933), Peter Lang AG, International Academic Publishers, Berlin Germany.
- Geoffrey Gray, Doug Munro and Christine Winter (ed.), SCHOLARS AT WAR Australasian Social Scientists, 1939-1945, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia, 2012.
- Winter, C & Turner-Graham, E, eds, 2010, National Socialism in Oceania: A Critical Evaluation of its Effect and Aftermath, Peter Lang Publishing Group, Frankfurt am Main.
- Winter, C 2013, 'Limits of impartiality: The delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Australia during the Second World War', History Australia, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 56-74.
- Winter, C 2012, 'Changing Frames Identity and Citizenship of New Guineans of German Heritage during the Interwar Years', Journal of Pacific History, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 347-367.
- Winter, C 2012, 'Inter-war transformation of German-Australian identity: the case of Queensland Pastor Friedrich Otto Theile', in Andrew G Bonnell and Rebecca Vonhoff (ed.), Germans in Queensland, Peter Lang GmbH Europaeischer Verlag der Wissenschaften, Frankfurt, pp. 143-157.
- Gray, G & Winter, C 2012, 'Part 1: The Australians', in Geoffrey Gray, Doug Munro and Christine Winter (ed.), SCHOLARS AT WAR Australasian Social Scientists, 1939-1945, ANU ePress, Canberra Australia, pp. 29-34.
- Winter, C 2011, 'No Man's Land: a tale of love and longing during wartime', in Peter Monteath (ed.), Germans: Travellers, settlers and their descendants in South Australia, Wakefield Press, Kent Town, South Australia, pp. 345-363.
- Winter, C 2010, 'The NSDAP Stronghold Finschhafen, New Guinea', in Emily Turner-Graham and Christine Winter (ed.), National Socialism in Oceania: A Critical Evaluation of its Effect and Aftermath, Peter Lang Publishing Group, Frankfurt am Main, pp. 31-47.
- Winter, C 2008, 'Neutral intermediaries? The role of the Swiss Government in looking after the internees during the Second World War', in Joan Beaumont, Ilma Martinuzzi O'Brien & Mathew Trinica (ed.), Under Suspicion: Citizenship and Internment in Australia during the Second World War, National Museum of Australia Press, Canberra Australia, pp. 52-66.
- Winter, C 2008, 'Inadvertent Emissary of the Third Reich:The German Navy and the Mandated Territory of the New Guinea', Journal of Australian Naval History, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 37-53.
- Winter, C 2008, 'A Good-Will Ship: The Light Cruiser Koln visits Rabaul (1933)', Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 44-54.
- Dixon, J & Winter, C 2007, 'The environment of competing authorities: Saturated with choice', in Jane Dixon and Dorothy.H Broom (ed.), The seven deadly sins of obesity: how the modern world is making us fat, UNSW Press, Sydney, p. 22.
- Winter, C 2003, 'The long arm of the Third Reich: internment of New Guinea Germans in Tatura', Journal of Pacific History, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 85-108.
- Winter, C 2002, 'Writing History and the Shadow of the Third Reich', Mass Historia 2001, ed. Claire Brennan, Anna Clark, Jenny Spinks, Macy Tomsic, Monica Wehner and Gabriel, Melbourne University Press (an imprint of Melbourne University Publishing), Melbourne, pp. 170-75.
- Winter, C 2013, 'Book review: Australian Lithuanians by Luda Popenhagen', Reviews in Australian Studies, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 1-2.
- Winter, C 2013, 'Book review: Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing and Dying. The Secret World War II Transcripts of German POWs', Reviews in History, vol. 1370, pp. online.
- Winter, C 2008, 'Book review: The Hitler Club, by Gary Gump and Richard Kleinig', Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. tba, no. tba, pp. 146-147.
- Winter, C 2008, 'Australien sagt, Sorry:Zur Entschuldigungspolitik bei der indigenen Bevolkerung', Zeitschrift Frauensolidaritat, vol. 104, no. 2, pp. 32-33.
- Winter, C 2008, 'Women and Police Peacekeeping - Celebrating 20 years', Journal for Women and Policing, vol. 20, pp. 36-38.
- Winter, C 2007, 'Bergmann, Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm (Willy) (1899 - 1987)', in Di Langmore (ed.), Australian dictionary of biography. Volume 17 (1981-1990 A-K), Melbourne University Press (an imprint of Melbourne University Publishing), Melbourne, pp. 89-90.
- Winter, C 2003, 'Heavens Turned Abyss - Paul Celan, Gordon Bennett, and Australia today', Overland, vol. 170, pp. 44-46.
