Christina Twomey

Christina Twomey is a Professor of History, and current Head of the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies. A former ARC Future Fellow, she is also Director of the Faculty of Arts Focus Program in Global Connections and Violence (2016-20). Her research focuses on histories of humanitarianism and the cultural history of war, with a particular interest in imprisonment and internment, and the photography of atrocity.

Christina is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. She is currently on the Executive Committee of the Australian Historical Association. in 2012, Christina was the Distinguished Visiting Chair of Australian Studies at the University of Copenhagen. From 2012-15, she was Co-Editor, with Professor Catharine Coleborne, of Australian Historical Studies.

Christina is a prize-winning historian of nineteenth and twentieth-century Australia. Her latest book is The Battle Within: POWs in post-war Australia (2018), She co-authored with Mark Peel A History of Australia (2011: 2nd Edition, 2017). Her book Australia's Forgotten Prisoners: Civilians Interned by the Japanese in World War Two (2007) won a 2008 NSW Premier's HIstory prize. In 2009, she was awarded the Frederick Watson Fellowship by the National Archives of Australia. Christina's first book, Deserted and Destitute: Motherhood, Wife Desertion and Colonial Welfare (2002), was the recipieint of an AHA/National Centenary of Federation prize, and published the results of her PhD research into gender and welfare in colonial Victoria.