Staff Profile

Career Summary

Biography

Qualifications

• PhD, University of Sydney, 16/10/2009
• Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of Newcastle

Research

Research keywords

• Australian and International Wine Studies
• Civilising processes and 'civilisation'
• Environmental History
• Migration and diasporas
• Regional identities

Research expertise

Julie's doctoral research began to identify the framework for a new Humanities and Social Sciences research field: wine studies. As an early career researcher she has continued to build her profile and skills in this area.

Her contact with international scholars and her access to research archives was greatly enhanced while she held the Rydon Fellowship at the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College, London.

Julie works with a range of methodologies and research techniques. During her Honours research training she translated several years of experience as a broadcast interviewer into expertise as an oral historian. Her research since then has comprised a case study approach across several History sub-disciplines using collections of business records, published works, family papers, press reports and artefacts held at a several libraries and archive depositories in New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria and London.

Since completing her doctorate in 2009, Julie has extended the reach of her inquiries in terms of form, content and depth through inter-disciplinary collaboration to shape new research questions and means of addressing these inquiries.

Julie's research publications situate early Australian wine production, trade and consumption within the frameworks of colonial, regional, national and world history and, given the contemporary approach to the history of land use in Australia: environmental history.

Her research has been tested among her peers in more than a dozen non-refereed conference presentations and University research seminars since 2005.

Julie researches regional culture and identity as the Migration Heritage Historian for Port Macquarie Hastings Council (a position partly funded by the NSW Migration Heritage Centre (MHC), which is attached to the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney).

This project is the first by the MHC to include research into Aboriginal forced migration in the Mid North Coast river valleys.

Languages

• English

Fields of Research

Memberships

Body relevant to professional practice.

• Member - Wine Communicators of Australia

Committee/Associations (relevant to research).

• Member - Australian Historical Association
• Member - Wine Industry Research Collaborative, Centre for Institutional and Organisational Studies, University of Newcastle
• Member - Oral History Association of Australia (NSW)

Appointments

Awards

Medals.

Postgraduate awards.

Undergraduate award.

Invitations

Collaboration

Julie is co-convenor, with Nancy Cushing, of the Inaugural Newcastle Hunter Studies Symposium. This event is jointly funded by the Humanities Research Institute, The University of Newcastle, and Newcastle Art Gallery. It is the first step in seeding a new generation of research of international standard on Newcastle and the Hunter Valley within the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Julie's first book A Living History of Fort Scratchley (2008) was the result of a research collaboration with Professor Erik Eklund, now based at Monash University. The book project was funded by Newcastle City Council and involved academics and students in the School of Design, Communication & IT at University of Newcastle.

Her major creative work incorporating academic research for a general audience - the radio documentary Vintage Stories, commissioned by ABC Radio Newcastle and broadcast in 2009 - was co-produced with Dr Phillip McIntyre, Communication & Media, University of Newcastle.

Julie is preparing to undertake wine studies research with scholars from Sociology, History, Business and Tourism, led by Professor John Germov and including Dr David Dunstan from Monash University. This research is to be conducted in collaboration with the Hunter Valley Wine Industry Association and Newcastle Museum.

She is a member of the Wine Industry Research Collaborative.

http://www.newcastle.edu.au/research-centre/cios/research/wine-industry-research-collaborative.html

Administrative

Administrative expertise

Julie has considerable experience as a course co-ordinator in first year and upper level undergraduate courses.

She convenes the History Research Seminar series held fortnightly during teaching semester in Rare Books & Archives, Auchmuty Library.

She organised the Inaugural Wine Studies Seminar at University of Newcastle Art Gallery, 1 December 2012 to coincide with the Vintage Dupain exhibition.

Teaching

Teaching keywords

• Australian History
• European History

Teaching expertise

Julie began teaching at the University of Newcastle in 2000.

Over twelve years of sessional lecturing and tutoring she has demonstrated a deep commitment to encouraging the development of undergraduate scholarship across several disciplines: Australian History (ranging from introductory survey courses to upper level subjects focusing on gender, war, cultural history and comparative history), European History (politics, imperial history, environmental history, society and culture), Journalism and Cultural Studies.

This commitment is reflected in consistently high evaluations of teaching from students.

Julie has been responsible for course writing and course co-ordination and enjoyed the privilege of working with key scholars’ teaching teams at the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales as well as University of Newcastle.

Her teaching at University of Sydney included the role of lead tutor in classes run simultaneously in Sydney and at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) which was teleconferenced to allow students to experience cultural transmissions while studying the connections between Australian and United States histories.

University of Newcastle courses in which she has taught are:

HIST1051 The Australian Experience

HIST1080 Europe and the World

CMNS1080 Introduction to Professional Writing

CMNS1090 Introduction to Journalism

CMNS1100 Communication & Culture

CMNS2370 Broadcast Journalism

CMNS3270 Communication & Discourse