Assoc Prof Julie McIntyre

I am an interdisciplinary historian researching land use and commodity development. Questions I have addressed include: what does the commodification of the introduced species for winegrapes (Vitis vinifera) mean for wine producing communities, Australia's First Nations and environments? How have women participated in the Australian wine industry? And -- how can we understand Awabakal nikkin/coal history in the context of ongoing colonisation and resource extraction? 

My two books on wine history published by UNSW Press/NewSouth (2012, 2018) have each won industry prizes and were finalists in the New South Wales Premier's History Awards in Sydney. Hunter Wine: A history received an International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) Jury Prize "Special Mention for History" in Paris. My research is published in key journals and is widely cited in health, economics and business, as well as history. 

My publications are listed here.

I have held the Rydon Fellowship at the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies (now Menzies Australia Institute) King’s College London (2010), an Australian Research Council Linkage Project Grant (2014-2018 - Chief Investigator 2), the State Library of NSW Merewether Fellowship (2018), a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award at the University of California, Davis (2019), a University of Newcastle Women in Research Fellowship (2022), a position in the Inaugural Australian Fulbright Alumni Association Leadership Program (2022), and am a Research Associate of the National Museum of Australia (2021-2025).

In 2023 I was a funded Visiting Scholar at University of British Columbia (BC, Canada), hosted by the Culinaria Research Institute, University of Toronto (ON, Canada) and returned for research by invitation to my Fulbright host institution, the Shields Library Special Collections at the University of California, Davis.

As a member of the editorial team of Settler Colonial Studies I foster publication of research and book review essays focused on histories of 'replacing' Indigenous populations, at a time when the journal seeks to better understand Indigenous views of settler colonialism and the role of First peoples in making modern nations.

I am completing a new global history of Australia for Princeton University Press.

I co-founded and direct the University of Newcastle's international Wine Studies Research Network. I sit on the steering committee of the Australian Aotearoa NZ Environmental History Network (since 2017). I previously directed the University of Newcastle's Centre for 21st Century Humanities and am a member of the University of Newcastle's Purai Global Indigenous Histories Centre. From 2021-2025, I served as Secretary on the History Council of NSW. 

Higher degree research students under my supervision have researched French-Australian transfers in winegrowing and are engaged in projects on the wine industry and climate change, settler citrus-growing in South Australia, Worimi-settler history of place and trees/timber, convict history in Newcastle and the Hunter Valley, and colonial New South Wales political history focused on settler landownership in the Hunter Valley. 

My Honours student is researching sheep grazing in the colonial Hunter Valley. 

From 2025 I am the Bachelor of Arts Program Convenor. My responsibilities in this role include core course curriculum and delivery with special focus on students understanding their relationship with generative artificial intelligence through interacting with and critiquing large language model chatbots. 

Undergraduate courses that I convene are:

HASS2000 Bachelor of Arts (BA) Practice (Research Skills in the Humanities including a critical lens on GenAI literacy and fluency)

HIST3201 Power in the Asia Pacific (from Semester 1 2026)

HIST3221 Global Food History: From Bunya Nuts to French Fries (in 2025 co-taught in real time with Dr Kate Stevens, University of Waikato, Aotearoa New Zealand -- this project is funded by a 2024 Waikato-Newcastle Seed Fund Grant)