List of Contributors
Ann Curthoys
is an Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University, and an honorary professor of History at the University of Sydney and the University of Western Australia. She has written on many aspects of Australian history and questions of history, theory and writing. She recently has returned to the field of the Cold War she first explored in the 1980s, with two essays on race relations and the Cold War and a special issue of Australian Historical Studies, co-edited with Joy Damousi, on the 1951 Referendum to ban the Communist Party of Australia. Curthoys and Damousi also co-edited the memoir collection, What Did You Do in the Cold War, Daddy? Personal Stories from a Troubled Time (NewSouth Publishing, 2014).
Phillip Deery
is Emeritus Professor of History at Victoria University, Melbourne, and a review editor of Labour History. He has published widely in the fields of the Cold War, communism, espionage and the labour movement, and is currently working on a study of Morton Sobell, the co-conspirator in the Rosenberg case. His recent publications include Red Apple: Communism and McCarthyism in Cold War New York (Fordham University Press, 2014, 2016) and The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents (St Martin’s Press, 3rd edition 2016).
Katherine Hite
is Professor of Political Science on the Frederick Ferris Thompson Chair at Vassar College. She is the author of Politics and the Art of Commemoration: Memorials to Struggle in Latin America and Spain (Routledge, 2012). Hite co-edited with Cath Collins and Alfredo Joignant the volume Las Políticas de la Memoria en Chile: de Pinochet a Bachelet (Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales, 2013); and with Mark Ungar, Sustaining Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century: Strategies from Latin America (Johns Hopkins, 2013).
Michael Humphrey
holds a Chair in Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney. He has published widely on Islam in the West; political violence, terrorism and securitisation; transitional justice, human rights politics and democratisation; globalisation, city and state. Major publications include The Politics of Atrocity and Reconciliation: from Terror to Trauma (Psychology Press, 2002). He is currently researching citizen insecurity in Latin American cities.
Su-kyoung Hwang
is a Lecturer in Korean Studies at the University of Sydney. She teaches Korean history, language, and culture. Her research concerns the history and memory of political violence during the 1948 Cheju Uprising and the Korean War. In recent years, she has published about comfort women, the Cold War, and comparative legal history. She is also the author of Korea’s Grievous War (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016).
Perry Johansson
is an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong. He has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University and a Senior Research Fellow at Singapore National University. Among his recent publications are Saluting the Yellow Emperor: A Case of Swedish Sinography (Brill, 2012) and The Libidinal Economy of China (Lexington Books, 2015). He is currently working on a world history of the Vietnam War protests as well as a biography of Jan Myrdal.
Judith Keene
is an Associate Professor at the University of Sydney researching the cultural history of twentieth century war. Among relevant recent publications are Fighting for Franco: International Volunteers in Nationalist Spain during the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2001), Spanish edition (2002); Treason on the Airwaves: Three Allied Broadcasters on Axis Radio during World War Two (Praeger Publishers, 2008). She has published articles in: Australian Journal of Politics and History; Cultural History; Journal of Contemporary History; Journal of Social History; Public Historian; and Rethinking History.
Betty O’Neill
is a Doctor of Creative Arts student at the University of Technology Sydney, researching and writing a hybrid history/biography/memoir. She recently presented a paper at the Family History: Facilitating Intergenerational and Intercultural Exchange conference in Tartu, Estonia and the Judging the Past in a Post Cold-War World International Symposium, Sydney University. She has taught Adult Education for twenty-five years at
Peter Read
is Adjunct Professor, National Centre for Indigenous History, Australian National University. He has worked with Marivic Wyndham, a fellow author in this volume, in a number of historical projects relating to Chile and Cuba. He has also published widely in Australian Aboriginal history and Place Studies. These works include the website: historyofaboriginal sydney.edu.au (University of Sydney, 2014) and Haunted Earth (
Elizabeth Rechniewski
is honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney in the School of Languages and Cultures. She has published widely on remembrance of twentieth century war and colonial war in Australia, France, Cameroon and New Caledonia, including the commemoration of the role of Indigenous soldiers from these countries. She has contributed to French and Australian government agencies on these topics and was awarded the palmes académiques in 2009. Recent publications include “Remembering the Black Diggers: from the ‘great silence’ to an ‘excess of commemoration’?” in War Memories (McGill, 2017).
Estela Valverde
is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of International Studies: Languages and Cultures and Head of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Macquarie University. Her current research is in contemporary human rights politics, transitional justice and women in democratization in Argentina and Uruguay. Her recent publications include the edited collection Jorge Luis Borges: English Literature and Other Inquisitions (Southern Highlands Press, 2009). She is working on a book with Michael Humphrey entitled Amnesty, Impunity and Transitional Justice: the Judicialisation of Politics (Intersentia).
Adrian Vickers
is Professor of Southeast Asian Studies and director of Asian Studies at the University of Sydney. He has taught and researched extensively on Indonesian history and culture, and on Australian-Indonesian relations and history. His most recent book, The Pearl Frontier (University of Hawaii Press, 2015) co-authored with Julia Martìnez, won the Queensland Premier’s Awards
Marivic Wyndham
is a historian and Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology Sydney. Her publications have focused on the theme of custodianship of place in Cuba and, more recently, on the politics of memorialization in post-dictatorship Chile. Her recent publications include Narrow but Endlessly Deep: The Struggle for Memorialization in Post-Pinochet Chile (