Associate Professor Christine Winter
Matthew Flinders Fellow
College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Christine Winter is a historian whose work connects Australia, the Pacific and German-speaking Europe. She has published widely on legacies of colonialism, race science and 'mixedness', migration and diasporas, identity transformation, National Socialism, mission history and religion, internment, WWI and WWII and their impact.
Christine Winter is a historian whose work connects Australia, the Pacific and German-speaking Europe. She has published widely on legacies of colonialism, race science and 'mixedness', migration and diasporas, identity transformation, National Socialism, mission history and religion, internment, WWI and WWII and their impact.
Christine Winter studied at the Friedrich Alexander Universitaet Erlangen-Nuremberg, Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen, Universitaet Hamburg and the Australian National University.
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, RSPAS, ANU 2005)
Awards & Grants:
Matthew Flinders Fellow (2018-23)
ARC Future Fellow (FT13010101715 - German Mixed Race Diasporas in the Global South, 2014-18)
Darling Foundation Grant (From War Trophies to Curious, with South Australia Museum, 2012-13)
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, (W. Anderson Laureate Race and Ethnicity in the Global South, Sydney University, 2013)
Best Teacher Nomination 2012, Arts Faculty, UQ
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, UQ (Legacies of the German Empire in Oceania, 2010-12)
Publication Subsidy, Australian Academy of the Humanities, 2010
Publication Subsidy, ANU, 2009
ARC Discovery Project (CI T. Morris-Suzuki, Rethinking Impartial Humanitarianism, 2007-09)
PhD Scholarship, RSPAS, ANU (2000-2004)
Selected Visiting Appointments & Travel Grants:
CHASS workshop grant 'Health and Labour in the Pacific', Flinders University 2019
First Book Workshop Grant, CHASS Flinders University, with Dr Flowers, 2017-18
Erasmus Mobility Grant, with University of Sydney & Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, 2016
Travel Grant, INALCO, Paris, France, 2015
Travel Grant, Historisches Seminar, Universitaet Basel, Switzerland, 2014
International Visiting Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG, Berlin, 2012)
Research Associate, Race and Ethnicity in the Global South, University of Sydney (2016-17)
Honorary Senior Research Fellow, HAPI, UQ (2013-2016)
Visiting Research Fellow/Research Associate, College of the Asia Pacific, ANU (2010-15)
Christine Winter's work combines history of science and migration and identity studies. Her Matthew Flinders Fellowship research project Humaniarianism or Security? The New Global Health analyses through a regional focus Australia's role in health research, infrastructure development and humanitarian intervention.
The ARC Future Fellowship Mixed-Race German Diasporas in Southern Hemisphere Mandates: race science, policies and identity transformation analyses overlapping colonial rule and legacies through the lense of a history of individuals and families of multi-racial descent in the Global South from Australasia, New Guinea, Samoa to Namibia and South Africa.
Christine has published widely on Pacific-European relations during the late 19th and 20th century, and on the impact of WWI and WWII. Her work analyses a wide range of subjects in the Asia Pacific: the politics of Christian missions; how social scientists in Australasia were effected by war; ethnographic collecting; the development of race science; transnational politics of internment; colonial ideologies of loyalty.
University Medal (PhD, Univ. of Basel - DEC 2018
Excellence in Research Australia, Peer Reviewer, Australian Research Council
- Germany
- History - Australian
- History - European
- History - German
- Hitler
- Human rights and civil liberties
- Nationalism
- Pacific Islands
- Race relations
- Religion
- War
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