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Dr Jean Bou

Bou, Dr Jean PhD (UNSW)

Dr Jean Bou is an historian and is presently working on the Official History of Australian Peacekeeping and Post-Cold War Operations. He holds an honours (1st class) degree in history from the University of Queensland and graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of New South Wales (University College, Australian Defence Force Academy) in 2005. The author of numerous articles on military history, he has been published in the Journal of Military History, The Journal of the Australian War Memorial, the Australian Defence Force Journal and The Australian Centenary History of Defence, Volume. VI: Australian Defence: Sources & Statistics. He is also the associate editor for the forthcoming second edition of the Oxford Companion to Australian Military History and is co-editor, with Professor David Horner, of the second edition of the history of the Royal Australian Regiment, Duty First. An officer in the Army Reserve, he is also a member of the Australian Army History Unit where he has worked as an historian and project officer on a number of unit sponsored activities. The above commitments allowing, he is also presently working on a history of the Australian Light Horse based on his doctoral thesis.

Email: jean.bou@anu.edu.au

Winter, Dr Christine PhD (ANU)
(located at the Australian War Memorial)

Christine Winter is an historian whose work analyses the legacies of the German Empire in the Asia-Pacific region. She studied Theology in Erlangen, Tuebingen and Hamburg, and worked at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Studies and the Centre for Cross Cultural Research at the Australian National University (ANU) (Assistant Editor, Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture). She completed her history PhD (RSPAS, ANU) in 2005, on an investigation of the transnational politics of a German Lutheran Mission organisation in Germany, Australia and New Guinea in the interwar years. Her research on the politics of internment and National Socialism has led to her latest ARC funded project (with Professor Tessa Morris-Suzuki and Dr Keiko Tamura), 'Rethinking Impartial Humanitarianism'. Christine is working for the Official History of Australian Peacekeeping and Post-Cold War Operations, specialising on Cyprus and the contribution of Australian police officers to peacekeeping operations.

Selected Publications

Edited Volumes

  • Emily Turner-Graham and Christine Winter (Eds.), National Socialism in Oceania, Series Germanica Pacifica, Peter Lange Verlag, forthcoming 2007.
  • Geoffrey Gray and Christine Winter (Eds.), The Resurgence of Racism: Howard, Hanson and the Race Debate (Monash Publications in History 24, 1997).

Articles and chapters

  • 'Neutral intermediaries? The Role of the Swiss government looking after internees in WWII', War and Citizenship in 20th Century Australia, forthcoming 2007.
  • '"A Good Will Ship": The light cruiser Köln visits Rabaul (1933)', Australian Journal of Politics and History, forthcoming.
  • Biographical entry 'Bergmann, Wilhelm', Australian Dictionary of Bibliography, forthcoming 2007.
  • '"What a small but disciplined group can do...": National Socialism in Internment Camps during WWII-a transnational history", Chauvel Lecture 2001, University of New England, Armidale, 2004.
  • 'Heavens turned Abyss. Paul Celan, Gordon Bennett and Australia today', Overland No. 170 (2003), pp. 44-6.
  • 'The Long Arm of the Third Reich: Internment of New Guinea Germans in Tatura', The Journal of Pacific History, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2003, pp. 85-108.
  • 'Writing History in the Shadow of the Third Reich', Melbourne Historical Journal, Special Issue 2001, No. 29 (published 2002), pp. 170-175.

To contact Christine Winter, please email her at:
Christine.Winter@anu.edu.au or Christine.Winter@awm.gov.au