Dr Julie McIntyre

Julie McIntyre is an environmental historian focused on commodity production as transformative of Indigenous as well as settler lands, cultures and economies. She researches winegrowing, making and selling in Australia and is newly engaged in research on coal in Awabakal Country. She has held the Rydon Fellowship at the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies (now Menzies Australia Institute), King’s College London (2010), the State Library of NSW Merewether Fellowship (2018), a Fulbright Senior Scholarship at the University of California, Davis (2019), and a University of Newcastle Women in Research Fellowship (2022). 

She is 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, Julie was awarded an Australian Postgraduate Award to complete a PhD in Australian History at the University of Sydney, conferred in 2009. Her thesis located the origins of Australian wine growing in British imperial visions for a 'civilised' colony through cultivating social order as well as commerce in New South Wales. 

Dr McIntyre's body of work includes two books published by UNSW Press/NewSouth (2012, 2018). Each has won industry prizes and both were finalists in the New South Wales Premier's History Awards in Sydney. The latter 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 Dr McIntyre was part of the interdisciplinary 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 international leadership in wine studies in the humanities and social sciences. One of her current projects is a collaboration lead by colleagues in sociology on participation and representation in women's sport in Newcastle. This project is funded by the Copley Bequest.  

Dr McIntyre is director of the University of Newcastle's Centre for 21st Century Humanities (C21CH), a broad-ranging group focused on academic, industry and community partnerships. Under the umbrella of C21CH she directs the Wine Studies Research Network, a multidisciplinary and international collective focused on projects combining critical and industry perspectives. 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 is Secretary of the History Council of NSW (elected in May 2021 for a two year tenure) and has served on the steering committee of the Australian NZ Environmental History Network since 2017. 

Dr McIntyre 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 specialisation in Aboriginal-Colonial Relationships in Australian History. In Semester 1 2021 she was a co-instructor in an innovative new course at the University of California (Davis) Department of Viticulture & Enology (V&E) co-ordinated by a plant scientist and an enology graduate student. The course, Wine & Society, introduced V&E students to social power relationships in the contemporary wine industry through themes such as racial representation. This course arose as a result of Dr McIntyre's Fulbright Scholarship.  

Higher degree research students under her supervision have researched French-Australian transfers in winegrowing and are engaged in projects on settler citrus-growing in South Australia, convict history in Newcastle and the Hunter Valley, and comparative iconographies of race and gender in India and Australia.