Assoc. Prof Janis Wilton
Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, School of Humanities
Qualifications
BA (Hons)(USyd), PhD (NE)
Contact
| Email: | jwilton@une.edu.au |
| Room: | E11 G67 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2107 (or +61 2 6773 2107 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3520 |
Affiliations
Council member, Vice President, and President, International Oral History Association, 1998 to 2006. (http://www.ioha.fgv.br)
Member, National Committee, Oral History Association of Australia, 1998 to 2007. (http://www.ohaa.net.au)
Trustee, Historic Houses Trust of NSW, 1999 to 2007. (http://www.hht.net.au)
Areas of Teaching
Oral history; history and museums; local history; public history.Research interests
Oral history theory and practice; ethnic community and family histories; history and museums; local and regional histories.Prizes, Honours & Awards
Order of Australia in the General Divison (OAM) for ‘service to the community as historian, author and researcher, to historical associations, and to the Chinese heritage of New South Wales’, 2006.
EnergyAustralia/National Trust Heritage Award for Cultural Heritage/Individuals (for Golden Threads), 2005.
Publications
Books & Monographs
Golden Threads: The Chinese in Regional NSW 1850-1950 (Powerhouse Publishing, Sydney, 2004.)
Immigrants in the Bush, NSW Department of Education Multicultural Education Coordinating Committee and Armidale CAE, Armidale, 1988/1989.
(ed.) Internment: The Diaries of Harry Seidler May 1940-October 1941, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1986.
with Richard Bosworth, Old Worlds and New Australia: The Post War Migrant Experience, Penguin, Melbourne, 1984.
Refereed Articles and Book Chapters (since 2000)
'A white Australia?' in Deborah Gare and David Ritter (eds), Making Australian History: Perspectives on the Past since 1788, Thomson, Melbourne, 2007, pp.272-279.
'Migration stories, international oral history and transnational networks', Bios, 2007, pp.230-234.
‘Museums and memories: remembering the past in local and community museums’, Public History Review, 12, 2006.
‘Generations of journeys’ in J.A. Hammerton and Eric Richards (eds.) Speaking to Immigrants: Oral Testimony and the History of Australian Migration, History Program and Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies, ANU, 2002, pp. 149-169.
‘The Chinese history and heritage of regional NSW’ in Ann Curthoys, Henry Chan, Nora Chiang (eds), The Overseas Chinese in Australasia: History, Settlement and Interactions, National Taiwan University and Centre for the Study of the Chinese Diaspora, ANU, Canberra, pp. 91-101.
‘Chinese immigrants in Australia’ in Daniel Snowman ed. , Past Masters: The Best of History Today,Sutton Publishing and History Today, London, 2001, pp.425-434.
Non-refereed publications, reports and websites (since 2000)
Different Sights: New England Immigrants (website and online database), 2008. http://hfrc.une.edu.au/heritagefutures/neimmigrants
Museums and Memory: Museum of Antiquities Maurice Kelly Lecture, University of New England, Armidale, 2004.
GoldenThreads: The Chinese in Regional NSW 1850-1950. (website launched 2001) http://www.amol.org.au/goldenthreads
‘Tingha’s Wing Hing Long’, Locallity, 11/3, 2000, pp. 22-26.
‘The walls speak, don’t they? Heritage places and contested memories: a case study’, Oral History Association of Australia Journal, 22, 2000, pp.16-23.
‘”Yum cha, ah bak”. The stories teapots can reveal: memories, museums and the Chinese in Australia’, Proceedings of the XIth International Oral History Conference, June 2000, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, 2000, pp. 1088-1092.
with Jinx Miles and Kevin Brooks, Conservation and Management Plan for Wing Hing Long and Co Store, Tingha. National Trust of Queensland prepared for the NSW Heritage Office, 2000.