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