Dr Julie McIntyre

Biography

Julie is a historian, wine scholar, broadcaster and blogger who aims to communicate her research to multiple audiences within and beyond the academy.

Her peer-reviewed journal articles situate early Australian wine growing within the frameworks of colonial history, Aboriginal-settler relations, social policies on sobriety, and notions of place.

These articles are available on UoN's Humanities Research Institute Wine Studies webpage at

http://www.newcastle.edu.au/institute/humanities-research/wine-studies-.html

Her book First Vintage: Wine in Colonial New South Wales (New South Publishing/UNSW Press; due October 2012) shows how wine growing had a significant role in visions of the making of European Australia.

Part of the research for First Vintage was completed while Julie held the Rydon Fellowship with the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King’s College, London, in 2010.

Julie has taught European History, Australian History and Communication Studies within metropolitan and regional university environments.

She is the Migration Heritage Historian for Port Macquarie Hastings Council.

Julie's blog The World in a Wine Glass is at http://juliemcintyrewinehistory.wordpress.com/.

Qualifications

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

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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.

Collaboration

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

Languages

• English

Fields of Research

Code	Description	Percentage
210303	Australian History (Excl. Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander History)	100

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

Rydon Fellow Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College, London (United Kingdom)	01/01/2010 - 01/06/2010
Migration Heritage Historian Port Macquarie Hastings Council/Migration Heritage Centre NSW (Australia)	01/01/2012 - 01/12/2012

Awards

Medals.

2004	University Medal University of Newcastle (Australia) BA (Hons First Class) History/English and Graduate speaker
2004	Faculty Medal Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle (Australia) Awarded for History/English

Postgraduate awards.

2006	History Compass Postgraduate Essay Prize History Compass Journal (Australia) Prize included peer-reviewed journal publication
2005	Australian Postgraduate Award University of Sydney (Australia) To fund PhD research for 3.5 years

Undergraduate award.

1996	Sarah Lewis Prize Humanities and Social Sciences, FEDUA, University of Newcastle (Australia) Awarded to student with highest first year results

Invitations

The story of Ben Ean Heritage Cairn Launch, Hunter Wine Industry Association, Australia (Invited Presenter)	2012
Maurice O'Shea Unveiling of Heritage Cairn, Legends Sub-Committee, Hunter Valley Wine Industry Association, Australia (Invited Presenter)	2012
Douglas Vale and its First Fleet wine variety Port Macquarie Hastings Heritage Festival, Heritage Week, Australia (Distinguished Visitor)	2012
“A limited number of foreigners”: creating a non-British labour force for colonial wine growing Symposium to honour Richard Waterhouse, Bicentennial Professor of Australian History, School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, University of Sydney, Australia (Invited Presenter)	2011
From London Particular to Kaludah: the wines of colonial New South Wales EAT History, History Week Seminar at State Library of NSW, History Council of New South Wales, Australia (Invited Presenter)	2011
From London Particular to Kaludah: the wines of colonial New South Wales EAT History Regional Event, Newcastle, History Council of NSW, Australia (Invited Presenter)	2011
Tastes and wine production in the 19th century: “the transformative qualities” Special presentation at Elizabeth Bay House, Historic Houses Trust, Sydney, Australia (Invited Presenter)	2011
Audrey Wilkinson’s diaries Unveiling of Heritage Cairn, Legends Sub-Committee, Hunter Valley Wine Industry Association, Australia (Invited Presenter)	2011

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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.

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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