Professor Ruth Balint
PhD (University of Sydney) 2004.
My research focuses on transnational histories of Australian migration, postwar Europe, refugees and the family, with a current focus on the refugee family in Australia during the years of 1933 to 1954. I currently lead two Australian Research Council - funded projects: Russian Immigrants and Anti-Communism in Cold War Australia, 1946-1966, and The Holocaust as an Australian Story, 1933-1954: An Intimate History. These two projects are both located in Australian migration history, with a sp...
- Publications
- Media
- Awards
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
The Ernst Keller European Fellowship, Australian Academy of the Humanities, 2011.
The National Film and Sound Archive, Scholar-In-Residence, 2010.
The Centre for Media and History (Mediale Historiographien), Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany, 1 March, 2008 – 30 June, 2008.
The Centre for Pasts Inc, Historical Studies, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, 1 July, 2008 – 1 November, 2008.
Australian Vogel Literary Award 2004
Dendy Documentary Award 2002
Australian Historical Association
Australian Feminist History Group
Australian Studies Research Network
My Research Supervision
I am currently supervising two HDR theses as primary supervisor.
- Gender and Perpetration in Histories of the Holocaust: Enduring Misrepresentations. An Analysis of the absence of female perpetrators at memorial and perpetrator sites of the Holocaust.
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The growth, commercialisation and decline of the jewellery business in Sydney between 1901-1929.
My Teaching
I teach across all level of the Bachelor of Arts degree.
ARTS1271: The History of the Present
ARTS2271: Inventing Modern Australia
ARTS3289: Documentary Film and History.
ARTS3292: Migrants and Refugees in Australian History.