Professor Klaus Neumann

Klaus Neumann has held teaching and research positions in universities in Germany and Australia, and worked as an independent historian in New Zealand and Australia. He has written extensively about memories of the Nazi past in postwar Germany; settler-indigenous relations in Australia and New Zealand; colonial history and memory in Papua New Guinea; immigration, refugee and asylum seeker policies in Australia; World War II internment; and German and Australian literature. Klaus has edited or written seven books, including Not the Way It Really Was (1992); Shifting Memories (2000); Refuge Australia: Australia’s Humanitarian Record (2004), winner of the 2004 Human Rights Award (Non-Fiction); and In the Interest of National Security (2006), winner of the John and Patricia Ward History Prize in the 2007 NSW Premier’s History Awards. He has also written radio plays and numerous articles. He is currently working on three projects: a critical history of Australian and New Zealand responses to refugees and asylum seekers; an investigation of the role of compassion in politics; and a comparative study of social memory and historical justice. He also has a strong interest in history as creative non-fiction.

Publications in the Swinburne Research Bank

Office: EW108
Telephone: +61 3 9214 4526
Email: kneumann@groupwise.swin.edu.au