Prof. Dr. Klaus Neumann

wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

Hamburger Stiftung zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Kultur

Hamburger Stiftung zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Kultur

Forschung und Projekte

Aktuelle(s) Projekt(e)

1. An international legal history of the rights to and of asylum
2. German responses to refugees and asylum seekers (since 1989)

Frühere Position(en)

professor of history, Swinburne University of Technology (2007-2017)
professor of history, Deakin University (2017-2018)

Veröffentlichungen

Monographien (und Dissertation)

Not the Way It Really Was: Constructing the Tolai Past (1992)
Rabaul Yu Swit Moa Yet (1996)
Shifting Memories: The Nazi Past in the New Germany (2000)
Refuge Australia (2004)
In the Interest of National Security (2006)
Across the Sea: Australian Responses to Refugees: A History (2015)

Herausgeberschaften und Editionen

(with Emma Greenwood and Andrew Sartori) Work in Flux (1995)
(with Nicholas Thomas and Hilary Ericksen) Quicksands: Foundational Histories in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand (1999)
(with Gwenda Tavan) Does History Matter? (2009)

Forschungsinteressen und Arbeitsgebiete

- A history of German responses to refugees and asylum seekers
- An international legal history of the rights to and of asylum
- Social and public memories of the Nazi past in Austria and Germany
- Historical justice in perpetrator societies
- The role of compassion in politics
- Refugee and asylum seeker regimes
- The impact of refugee histories and memories on host societies
- The White Australia policy
- World War II internment in Australia
- A history of Australian and New Zealand responses to refugees
- Postcolonial histories
- History-making in Papua New Guinea