Dr Julie McIntyre

Julie McIntyre is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Newcastle and writing a global history of Australia for Princeton University Press, due for completion in 2022.

After receiving Faculty and University Medals for her BA (Hons) degree at the University of Newcastle in 2004 she was awarded an Australian Postgraduate Award to complete a PhD in Australian History at the University of Sydney, conferred in 2009. Dr McIntyre's thesis located the origins of Australian wine growing in British imperial visions for cultivating social order as well as commerce in the colony of New South Wales. Her approach in the thesis -- linking environmental transformation with settler migration, Indigenous–settler relations, commodification, business and science -- has been carried forward in subsequent research.

Dr McIntyre's significant body of work includes two books published by UNSW Press/NewSouth (2012, 2018). Each of these volumes were finalists in the New South Wales Premier's History Awards in Sydney. The latter also received an International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) "Special Mention for History" in Paris. Her publications appear in key journals and are widely cited, informing interdisciplinary research in health and business, as well as history.

In 2014 she was a key member of the team awarded an Australian Research Council Linkage Project partnered with a peak wine industry body and regional cultural institution. This industry-engaged approach is framed by her instigation of an international movement in interdisciplinary wine studies in the humanities and social sciences.

As an archive historian she has conducted research at most major Australian archive repositories as well as libraries in Britain and the United States. In 2010, Dr McIntyre held the Rydon Fellowship at the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King’s College London to research at London's Kew Gardens Archives and, in 2018, the State Library of New South Wales Merewether Fellowship. As a 2019-20 Fulbright Scholar at the Shields Library, University of California (Davis) she began to investigate binational exchange between Australia and America in the grape and wine sciences. 

Dr McIntyre is director of the University of Newcastle's Centre for 21st Century Humanities, a broad-ranging group focused on academic, industry and community partnerships using methods in the digital humanities. She co-leads a major 'second city' open scholarship project with the City of Newcastle Library seeking to bring reliable historical scholarship to wider audiences online. She serves on the steering committee of the Australian NZ Environmental History Network. 

She has taught at the University of Sydney and the University of NSW. At the University of Newcastle Dr McIntyre co-ordinates an undergraduate course in generalist Humanities approaches to knowledge-making and a third-year History specialisation in Aboriginal-Colonial Relationships in Australian History. Higher degree research students under her supervision have researched French-Australian transfers in winegrowing and are engaged in projects such as on new approaches to convict history and comparative iconographies of race and gender in India and Australia.