Christine Winter (historian)

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Christine Winter (* before 1990) is a German and Australian theologian and historian . Her main interests are the Pacific-European relations in the 19th and 20th centuries. Since 2016 she has been an Associate Professor at Flinders University of South Australia.

career

Winter studied theology at the Universities of Erlangen , Tübingen and Hamburg and graduated in 1991 with the state church entrance examination. She went to Australia in the 1990s. She received a PhD from the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University in 2005 . In 2010 she received a research grant at the University of Queensland and examined "Legacies of the German Empire in Oceania" on the transformation of German identity in the period between the two world wars. Since 2013 she has been an ARC Future Fellow , REGS (Race and Ethnicity in the Global South), at the University of Sydney .

Research and Teaching

“German Mixed-Race Diasporas in the Global South: Science, politics and identity transformation - Polynesian — German relations and the struggle of Japanese — Germans for racial exemption. From War trophies to Curios: ethnographic objects from Ex-German New Guinea. ” Together with Barry Craig, Museum of South Australia and Ron Vanderwal. "Dilemmas of Humanitarianism in the Asia Pacific region, 1941-1965" - with Tessa Morris Suzuki and Keiko Tamura.

In her research from 2016 onwards she examines the identity and the political-historical context of the mixed German diaspora in the global south.

Publications (selection)

  • The Long Arm of the Third Reich: Internment of New Guinea Germans in Tatura. In: The Journal of Pacific History. Vol. 38, H. 1, 2003, pp. 85-108.
  • 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, Berlin 2012.
  • Geoffrey Gray, Doug Munro and Christine Winter (ed.): Scholars at War: Australasian Social Scientists, 1939–1945. ANU ePress, Canberra 2012.
  • Changing Frames Identity and Citizenship of New Guineans of German Heritage during the Interwar Years. In: The Journal of Pacific History. Vol. 47, H. 3, 2012, pp. 347-367.
  • Barry Craig, Ron Vanderwal and Christine Winter, War Trophies or Curios? The War Museum Collection in Museum Victoria 1915-1920 , Melbourne Museum Press, 2015.
  • '”The theater with the most meagre audience”: war trophies from ex-German New Guinea', Cogent Arts & Humanities , 2015, 2: 1073656
  • 'Disloyalty at Sword-point: an Ongoing Conversation about Wartime New Guinea, 1939–1945', Journal of Historical Biography, Vol 16, Autumn 2014, pp. 202-222.
  • 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, 2013, pp. 56-74.
  • Lingering Legacies of German Colonialism: 'Mixed Race' Identities in Oceania, Farida Fozdar and Kirsten McGavin (Eds.), Mixed Race Identities in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands (Routledge Studies in Anthropology), Routledge, 2017, pp. 147-161.
  • 'National Socialism and the German (mixed-race) Diasporas in Oceania', in Michael Mann and Jürgen G. Nagel (Eds.), Europa Jenseits der Genzen, Heidelberg, Draupadi-Verlag 2015, pp. 228-248.    

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christine Winter | Flinders University of South Australia - Academia.edu. Retrieved July 10, 2017 (English).
  2. ^ Staff page, Flinders University. Retrieved July 10, 2017 (English).
  3. ^ Australian National University
personal data
SURNAME Winter, Christine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German and Australian theologian and historian
DATE OF BIRTH before 1990