Select Publications
Books
2021, Destination Elsewhere: Displaced Persons and their Quest to Leave Postwar Europe After 1945, Cornell University Press, New York
,2021, Smuggled: An Illegal History of Journeys to Australia, NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2021.1989829
,2005, Troubled waters: borders, boundaries and possession in the Timor Sea, Allen and Unwin, St Leonards, NSW
,Book Chapters
2024, 'Australian Perceptions of Russian Women in the Cold War', in Fitzpatrick S; Deery P (ed.), Russians in Cold War Australia, Lexington Books, Lanham, Boulder, New York, London, pp. 83 - 106, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/unsw/reader.action?docID=31033958&ppg=100
,2023, 'Hopscotch Australia: Displaced Persons Taking the Long Way Around to the Rest of the World', in Balint R; Damousi J; Fitzpatrick S (ed.), When Migrants Fail to Stay: New Histories on Departures and Migration, Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 35 - 49, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350355514.ch-002
,2023, 'Introduction: Departures – Why Migrants Fail to Stay', in Balint R; Damousi J; Fitzpatrick S (ed.), When Migrants Fail to Stay: New Histories on Departures and Migration, Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 1 - 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350355514.0004
,2015, 'The Use and Abuse of History: Displaced Persons in the ITS Archive', in Boehling R; Urban S; Anthony E; Brown-Fleming S (ed.), Freilegungen Spiegelungen der NS-Verfolgung und ihrer Konsequenzen, Wallstein Verlag, Gottingen, pp. 173 - 188
,2014, 'Representing the Past and the Meaning of Home in Péter Forgács's Private Hungary', in Young G; Monahan B (ed.), Amateur Filmmaking : the home movie, the Archive, the Web., Bloomsbury Academic, Oxford, England, pp. 193 - 206, http://www.bloomsbury.com/au/amateur-filmmaking-9781441191496/
,2012, 'The War Crimes Case of Karoly Zentai and the Quest for Historical Justice', in Tatz C (ed.), Genocide Perspectives IV; Essays on Holocaust and Genocide, UTSePress, Sydney, pp. 272 - 311, http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/research/bitstream/handle/10453/19824/GenocidePerspectivesIV_Tatz.pdf?sequence=1
,2012, 'The Yellow Sea', in Walker D; Sobocinka A (ed.), Australia's Asia: From Yellow Peril to Asian Century, UWA Publishing, Perth, WA, pp. 345 - 366
,2009, 'Der »Somerton Man«: Eine dokumentarische Fiktion in drei Dimensionen', in Butis Butis (ed.), Goofy History: Fehler Machen Geschichte, Bohlau, Weimar, pp. 264 - 279
,2007, 'Mare Nullius and the Making of a White Ocean Policy', in Perera S (ed.), Our Patch: Enacting Australian Sovereignty Power after 9/11, Network Books, Perth, pp. 87 - 105
,Edited Books
Balint R; Damousi J; Fitzpatrick S; Balint R; Damousi J; Fitzpatrick S, (eds.), 2023, When Migrants Fail to Stay: New Histories on Departure and Migration, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02619288.2024.2327236
Journal articles
2023, 'Margaret Taft delves into the lives of two remarkable Australian Jews', History Australia, 20, pp. 182 - 183, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2022.2159460
,2019, 'My grandmother's cookbook: a personal history of migration', Journal of the Australian Jewish Historical Society, 24, pp. 486 - 500
,2019, 'Before Australia: Historicising Russian Migration via China after World War II', Australian Historical Studies, 50, pp. 3 - 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2018.1543333
,2018, 'Holocaust Education at Australian Universities in the Twenty-first Century: Challenges and Opportunities', Australian Humanities Review, pp. 131 - 133, http://australianhumanitiesreview.org/2018/12/02/holocaust-education-at-australian-universities-in-the-twenty-first-century-challenges-and-opportunities/
,2018, 'Histories of Migrants and Refugees in Australia', Australian Historical Studies, 49, pp. 378 - 409, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2018.1479438
,2017, 'Alexander and Anastayzia: the separation and search for family among Europe’s displaced', The History of the Family, 22, pp. 432 - 445, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1081602X.2017.1292181
,2016, 'Children left behind: Family, refugees and immigration in postwar Europe', History Workshop Journal, 82, pp. 151 - 172, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbw021
,2015, ''To Reunite the Dispersed Family': War Displacement and Migration in the Tracing Files of the Australian Red Cross', History Australia, 12, pp. 124 - 142, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2015.11668573
,2014, 'Industry and Sunshine: Australia as 'Home' in the Displaced Persons Camps of Postwar Europe', History Australia, 11, pp. 102 - 127, http://journals.publishing.monash.edu/ojs/index.php/ha/article/view/1103
,2014, 'The Idea of Home in Postwar Australia', History Australia, 11, pp. 6 - 12, http://journals.publishing.monash.edu/ojs/index.php/ha/article/view/1138
,2012, 'Aboriginal Women and Asian Men: A Maritime History of Color in White Australia', Signs, 37, pp. 544 - 554, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/662685
,2011, 'Soft Histories: Making history on Australian television', History Australia, 8, pp. 175 - 195
,2010, ''Remembering Balibo'', History Australia, 7, pp. 15.1 - 15.2, http://dx.doi.org/10.2104/ha100015
,2010, 'Boats to Burn: Bajo Fishing Activity in the Australian Fishing Zone [Review]', Asian Studies Review, 34, pp. 262 - 263
,2010, 'The Somerton Man: An Unsolved History', Cultural Studies Review, 16, pp. 159 - 178
,2010, 'The Ties That Bind: Australia, Hungary and the Case of Károly Zentai', Patterns of Prejudice, 44, pp. 281 - 303, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0031322X.2010.489737
,2009, 'First Australians: An Illustrated History [Review]', Journal of Australian Studies, 33, pp. 489 - 491, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443050903308725
,2008, 'Being Australian, Narratives of National Identity [Review]', Journal of Australian Studies, 32, pp. 147 - 148, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443050801995185
,2008, 'Film', Sydney Journal, 1, pp. 33 - 44, http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/sj.v1i2.659
,2008, 'I Peed on Fellini: Recollections of a Life in Film [Review]', Journal of Australian Studies, 32, pp. 406 - 407, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443050802294158
,2007, 'A Death in the Harbour', The Monthly, pp. 32 - 38
,1999, 'The last frontier: Australia's maritime territories and the policing of Indonesian fishermen', Journal of Australian Studies, 23, pp. 30 - 39, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443059909387530
,Conference Papers
2009, 'Australia Gets Lost and Goes Missing: Baz's Tourism Australia ad', http://www.nma.gov.au/research/baz_luhrmanns_australia_reviewed/speakers_and_program/, National Museum of Australia, National Museum of Australia, 07 December 2009 - 08 December 2009
,Conference Presentations
2009, 'The Somerton Man Mystery and the Unsolved Case of History', presented at Scandals, Crime and Corruption, State Library of NSW, 09 September 2009
,2008, 'The Water Hemisphere: Australia and its exilic sea', presented at Graduate School Mediale Historiographien, Bauhaus Universität, Weimar, Germany, 19 June 2008
,2007, 'Mare Nullius and a White Ocean Policy', presented at Indian Association for the Study of Australia Annual Conference, Pune India
,2006, 'Sweeping the Seas Clean: A White Ocean policy in Australia's north', presented at Historicising Whiteness, University of Melbourne, 22 November 2006 - 24 November 2006
,2005, 'Seascape and Memory in the Australian Psyche', presented at EASA conference: ReVisions of Australia: Histories, Images, Identity, Debrecen, Hungary, 20 September 2005 - 24 September 2005
,Reports
2019, Michael Robert Staindlv Joshua Anthony Frydenberg High Gourt of Australia Proceedings No. M96 of 2019
,Creative Written Works
2012, Small Fry: The Story of a People Smuggler, The Monthly, Schwartz Publishing
,2009, Australia, Hungary and the Case of Karoly Zentai, Inside Story: Current Affairs and Culture, Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, and Australian National University
,2009, Where are the Historians?, Inside Story: Current Affairs and Culture, Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, and Australian National University
,Recorded / Rendered Creative Works
2019, ABC Radio Documentary 'Cooking for Assimilation', written and produced by Ruth Balint, ABC Radio National, Radio, Published: 26 March 2019, Duration: 30 minutes, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works, https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/the-history-listen/cooking-for-assimilation/10595470
,2014, Radio Program, ABC Radio National - The Somerton Man: A Mystery in Four Acts, Published: 23 February 2014, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works, http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/somerton-man/5259946
,2013, The Pearling Families of Broome - a two part documentary series, ABC Radio National, Radio National, Editor(s): ABC , Published: 2013, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works
,2003, The Death of Mansur, SBS Television, Sydney, Video, Published: 2003, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works
,2001, Troubled Waters, Resonance Production, Sydney, Video, Published: 2001, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works
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