Martinez, Julia T.

Top Publications

Year	Title
2019	Colonialism and Male Domestic Service Across the Asia Pacific
2015	The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia's Northern Trading Network
2017	Asian Servants for the Imperial Telegraph: Imagining North Australia as an Indian Ocean Colony before 1914 Published in Australian Historical Studies
2012	Transcolonial influences on everyday American imperialism: the politics of Chinese domestic servants in the Philippines Published in Pacific Historical Review

2009	Colonial constructions of masculinity: transforming Aboriginal Australian men into 'houseboys' Published in Gender and History


2018	A Female Slaving Zone? Historical Constructions of the Traffic in Asian Women

Research Areas

Research Overview

I am an historian of the Asia Pacific, with a focus on north Australia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific from 1880-1940. I am interested in transcolonial mobilities across the region. My 2015 book Pearl Frontier (with Adrian Vickers) considered colonial labour networks between north Australia and Indonesia. My 2019 book Colonialism and Male Domestic Service (with Claire Lowrie, Frances Steel & Victoria Haskins) traces the lives of Asian and Indigenous men in colonial service across the Asia Pacific. My ARC Future Fellowship investigates the traffic in women in the colonial Asia-Pacific, and my current ARC Discovery Project examines Chinese indentured labour after 1919 (with Lowrie & Benton). I have an edited book with Hong Kong University Press forthcoming (with Kate Bagnall) on Chinese women in Australia. My research is cross-disciplinary, drawing on anthropology, law, social, cultural and gender studies

Geographic Focus

Asia Pacific Region Transnational Region
Australia Continent

Available as Research Supervisor

Member Of

Centre for Critical Human Rights Research Member
Colonial and Settler Studies Network Member

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2022	Jon Piccini on Australia¿s patchy human rights record Published In History Australia
2021	The League of Nations, Prostitution, and the Deportation of Chinese Women from Interwar Manila Published In Journal of Women's History
2020	Book review: Karl Heinz Roth, ed., On the Road to Global Labour History: A Festschrift for Marcel van der Linden Published In Labour History: a journal of labour and social history
2020	Chinese Women in Prostitution in the Courts of 1880s Darwin Published In Northern Territory historical studies
2020	The Pilbara: From the Deserts Profits Come by Bradon Ellem Published In Labor: Studies in the Working Class History of the Americas
2020	Book review Published In History of Education Review
2020	Steve Mullins explores schooner-based pearling in North Australia Published In History Australia
2019	Book review: Karl Heinz Roth, ed., On the Road to Global Labour History: A Festschrift for Marcel van der Linden Published In Labour History: a journal of labour and social history
2019	Chinese Women in Prostitution in the Courts of 1880s Darwin Published In Northern Territory historical studies
2019	The Pilbara: From the Deserts Profits Come by Bradon Ellem Published In Labor: Studies in the Working Class History of the Americas
2017	'Unwanted Scraps' or 'An Alert, Resolute, Resentful People'? Chinese Railroad Workers in French Congo Published In International Labor and Working-Class History
2017	Asian Servants for the Imperial Telegraph: Imagining North Australia as an Indian Ocean Colony before 1914 Published In Australian Historical Studies

2015	A highly nuanced reading of crosscultural encounters Published In History Australia
2014	Australia's Asia: From Yellow Peril to Asian Century Published In LABOUR HISTORY
2014	Book review: David Walker and Agniezka Sobocinska, eds. Australia's Asia: From Yellow Peril to Asian Century Published In Labour History: a journal of labour and social history
2012	Indonesians challenging White Australia: ‘Koepangers’ in the north Australian pearl-shell industry, 1870s to 1960s Published In Indonesia and the Malay World

2012	Transcolonial influences on everyday American imperialism: the politics of Chinese domestic servants in the Philippines Published In Pacific Historical Review
2011	Indigenous Australia-Indonesian intermarriage: Negotiating citizenship rights in twentieth-century Australia Published In Aboriginal History
2011	Indigenous Australian-Indonesian intermarriage: negotiating citizenship rights in twentieth-century Australia Published In ABORIGINAL HISTORY
2011	Problematising Aboriginal nationalism Published In Aboriginal History Journal
2009	Colonial constructions of masculinity: transforming Aboriginal Australian men into 'houseboys' Published In Gender and History
2009	The evolution of 'Malay' labour activism, 1870-1947: protest among pearling crews in Dutch East Indies-Australian waters Published In Transforming Cultures eJournal
2007	Chinese rice trade and shipping from the North Vietnamese Port of Hai Phong Published In Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies

Book

Year	Title
2021	Locating Chinese Women Historical Mobility Between China and Australia
2021	Locating Chinese Women: Historical Mobility between China and Australia Publisher Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press
2020	Colonialism and Male Domestic Service Across the Asia Pacific Publisher London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic
2019	Colonialism and Male Domestic Service Across the Asia Pacific Publisher London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic
2015	The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia's Northern Trading Network Publisher United States

Chapter

Year	Title
2021	Introduction: Chinese Australian women, migration and mobility Published In Locating Chinese Women: Historical mobility between China and Australia Publisher Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press
2021	Mary Chong and Gwen Fong: University-Educated Chinese Australian Women Published In Locating Chinese Women: Historical Mobility between China and Australia Publisher Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press
2020	Pearling women in north Australia: Indigenous workers and wives Published In Pearls, People and Power: Pearling and the Indian Ocean Worlds Publisher Athens, Ohio
2019	Pearling women in north Australia: Indigenous workers and wives Published In Pearls, People and Power: Pearling and the Indian Ocean Worlds Publisher Athens, Ohio
2018	A Female Slaving Zone? Historical Constructions of the Traffic in Asian Women Published In Slaving Zones: Cultural Identities, Ideologies, and Institutions in the Evolution of Global Slavery Publisher Leiden, The Netherlands
2015	Chinese politics in Darwin: interconnections between the Wah on society and the Kuo Min Tang Published In Chinese Australians, Politics, Engagement and Resistance Publisher Netherlands
2011	Patriotic Chinese women: Followers of Sun Yat-sen in Darwin, Australia Published In Sun Yat-Sen, Nanyang and the 1911 Revolution Publisher Singapore
2010	The Chinese trade in women and children from Northern Vietnam Published In The Trade in Human Beings for Sex in Southeast Asia Publisher Bangkok
2007	'La Traite Des Jaunes: Trafficking in Women and Children across the China Sea' Published In Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World Publisher Berkeley, USA
2007	La traite des jaunes: Trafficking in women and children across the China sea Published In Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2007	Constructing the 'white' worker in North Australia Published In Historicising Whiteness: Transnational Perspectives on the Construction of an Identity

Other Publications

Year	Title
2021	Wang, Alma Mary (1908-1982)
2021	'Your government makes us go': The hidden history of Chinese Australian women at a time of anti-Asian immigration laws

Editor Of

Book
- Locating Chinese Women: Historical Mobility between China and Australia. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. 2021

Investigator On

Year	Title
2018 - 2020	Chinese indentured labour in the colonial Asia Pacific region, 1919 to 1966 Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2013 - 2017	Networks and Narratives: traffic in women and girls in the Asia Pacific region, 1865 - 1940 Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Future Fellowships
2011 - 2013	A transcolonial history of domestic service in the Asia-Pacific Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2012	The traffic in women and children in the Philippines during the American occupation Awarded by: U.S. Studies Centre Funding Scheme: Grant
2007	Australian Multiculturalism Awarded by: Korean Women's Development Institute Funding Scheme: Project Grant
2007	Indonesian labour migration to North Australia, 1880 - 1972 Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Available as Research Supervisor

Potential Supervision Topics

I am available to supervise students in the field of history, particularly concerning the period from 1880 to 1960. Topics of interest include colonialism, migration, labour, gender, Indigenous histories and Australia-Asia-Pacific relations.

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	A history of artists' depictions of heritage sites in the Hawkesbury from 1794	Roberts, Carol
Doctor of Philosophy	The New Cultural Movement and the Chinese Diaspora in Australia, 1910s to 1930s	Zhang, Renzhe
Doctor of Philosophy	J. T Beckett first Chief Inspector of Aborigines in the Northern Territory and Australian Settler Colonialism	Tan, Leonie

Education And Training

Ph.D. in History, University of Wollongong, School of History and Politics, Plural Australia: Aboriginal and Asia Labour in Tropical White Australia, Darwin, 1911-40. 1996 - 2000

Awards And Honors

Patricia Grimshaw Prize, conferred by Australian Historical Studies , 2018
University of Southern Queensland History Book Award , conferred by Queensland Literary Awards, , 2016
Northern Territory History Book Award, conferred by NT Chief Minister, 2016

Teaching Overview

HIST204: Illicit Trades: Trafficking and Slavery in Global History

Keywords

Asia Pacific history
Gender History
Historical Studies
Labour Migration

Full Name

Assoc. Prof. Julia Teresa Martinez

Mailing Address

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts, Building 19

Northfields Avenue

University of Wollongong

NSW

2522

Australia

Orcid Id

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0459-8105 (confirmed)

Top Publications

Year	Title
2019	Colonialism and Male Domestic Service Across the Asia Pacific
2015	The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia's Northern Trading Network
2017	Asian Servants for the Imperial Telegraph: Imagining North Australia as an Indian Ocean Colony before 1914 Published in Australian Historical Studies
2012	Transcolonial influences on everyday American imperialism: the politics of Chinese domestic servants in the Philippines Published in Pacific Historical Review

2009	Colonial constructions of masculinity: transforming Aboriginal Australian men into 'houseboys' Published in Gender and History


2018	A Female Slaving Zone? Historical Constructions of the Traffic in Asian Women

Research Areas

Research Overview

I am an historian of the Asia Pacific, with a focus on north Australia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific from 1880-1940. I am interested in transcolonial mobilities across the region. My 2015 book Pearl Frontier (with Adrian Vickers) considered colonial labour networks between north Australia and Indonesia. My 2019 book Colonialism and Male Domestic Service (with Claire Lowrie, Frances Steel & Victoria Haskins) traces the lives of Asian and Indigenous men in colonial service across the Asia Pacific. My ARC Future Fellowship investigates the traffic in women in the colonial Asia-Pacific, and my current ARC Discovery Project examines Chinese indentured labour after 1919 (with Lowrie & Benton). I have an edited book with Hong Kong University Press forthcoming (with Kate Bagnall) on Chinese women in Australia. My research is cross-disciplinary, drawing on anthropology, law, social, cultural and gender studies

Geographic Focus

Asia Pacific Region Transnational Region
Australia Continent

Member Of

Centre for Critical Human Rights Research Member
Colonial and Settler Studies Network Member

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2022	Jon Piccini on Australia¿s patchy human rights record Published In History Australia
2021	The League of Nations, Prostitution, and the Deportation of Chinese Women from Interwar Manila Published In Journal of Women's History
2020	Book review: Karl Heinz Roth, ed., On the Road to Global Labour History: A Festschrift for Marcel van der Linden Published In Labour History: a journal of labour and social history
2020	Chinese Women in Prostitution in the Courts of 1880s Darwin Published In Northern Territory historical studies
2020	The Pilbara: From the Deserts Profits Come by Bradon Ellem Published In Labor: Studies in the Working Class History of the Americas
2020	Book review Published In History of Education Review
2020	Steve Mullins explores schooner-based pearling in North Australia Published In History Australia
2019	Book review: Karl Heinz Roth, ed., On the Road to Global Labour History: A Festschrift for Marcel van der Linden Published In Labour History: a journal of labour and social history
2019	Chinese Women in Prostitution in the Courts of 1880s Darwin Published In Northern Territory historical studies
2019	The Pilbara: From the Deserts Profits Come by Bradon Ellem Published In Labor: Studies in the Working Class History of the Americas
2017	'Unwanted Scraps' or 'An Alert, Resolute, Resentful People'? Chinese Railroad Workers in French Congo Published In International Labor and Working-Class History
2017	Asian Servants for the Imperial Telegraph: Imagining North Australia as an Indian Ocean Colony before 1914 Published In Australian Historical Studies

2015	A highly nuanced reading of crosscultural encounters Published In History Australia
2014	Australia's Asia: From Yellow Peril to Asian Century Published In LABOUR HISTORY
2014	Book review: David Walker and Agniezka Sobocinska, eds. Australia's Asia: From Yellow Peril to Asian Century Published In Labour History: a journal of labour and social history
2012	Indonesians challenging White Australia: ‘Koepangers’ in the north Australian pearl-shell industry, 1870s to 1960s Published In Indonesia and the Malay World

2012	Transcolonial influences on everyday American imperialism: the politics of Chinese domestic servants in the Philippines Published In Pacific Historical Review
2011	Indigenous Australia-Indonesian intermarriage: Negotiating citizenship rights in twentieth-century Australia Published In Aboriginal History
2011	Indigenous Australian-Indonesian intermarriage: negotiating citizenship rights in twentieth-century Australia Published In ABORIGINAL HISTORY
2011	Problematising Aboriginal nationalism Published In Aboriginal History Journal
2009	Colonial constructions of masculinity: transforming Aboriginal Australian men into 'houseboys' Published In Gender and History
2009	The evolution of 'Malay' labour activism, 1870-1947: protest among pearling crews in Dutch East Indies-Australian waters Published In Transforming Cultures eJournal
2007	Chinese rice trade and shipping from the North Vietnamese Port of Hai Phong Published In Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies

Book

Year	Title
2021	Locating Chinese Women Historical Mobility Between China and Australia
2021	Locating Chinese Women: Historical Mobility between China and Australia Publisher Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press
2020	Colonialism and Male Domestic Service Across the Asia Pacific Publisher London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic
2019	Colonialism and Male Domestic Service Across the Asia Pacific Publisher London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic
2015	The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia's Northern Trading Network Publisher United States

Chapter

Year	Title
2021	Introduction: Chinese Australian women, migration and mobility Published In Locating Chinese Women: Historical mobility between China and Australia Publisher Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press
2021	Mary Chong and Gwen Fong: University-Educated Chinese Australian Women Published In Locating Chinese Women: Historical Mobility between China and Australia Publisher Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press
2020	Pearling women in north Australia: Indigenous workers and wives Published In Pearls, People and Power: Pearling and the Indian Ocean Worlds Publisher Athens, Ohio
2019	Pearling women in north Australia: Indigenous workers and wives Published In Pearls, People and Power: Pearling and the Indian Ocean Worlds Publisher Athens, Ohio
2018	A Female Slaving Zone? Historical Constructions of the Traffic in Asian Women Published In Slaving Zones: Cultural Identities, Ideologies, and Institutions in the Evolution of Global Slavery Publisher Leiden, The Netherlands
2015	Chinese politics in Darwin: interconnections between the Wah on society and the Kuo Min Tang Published In Chinese Australians, Politics, Engagement and Resistance Publisher Netherlands
2011	Patriotic Chinese women: Followers of Sun Yat-sen in Darwin, Australia Published In Sun Yat-Sen, Nanyang and the 1911 Revolution Publisher Singapore
2010	The Chinese trade in women and children from Northern Vietnam Published In The Trade in Human Beings for Sex in Southeast Asia Publisher Bangkok
2007	'La Traite Des Jaunes: Trafficking in Women and Children across the China Sea' Published In Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World Publisher Berkeley, USA
2007	La traite des jaunes: Trafficking in women and children across the China sea Published In Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2007	Constructing the 'white' worker in North Australia Published In Historicising Whiteness: Transnational Perspectives on the Construction of an Identity

Other Publications

Year	Title
2021	Wang, Alma Mary (1908-1982)
2021	'Your government makes us go': The hidden history of Chinese Australian women at a time of anti-Asian immigration laws

Editor Of

Book
- Locating Chinese Women: Historical Mobility between China and Australia. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. 2021

Investigator On

Year	Title
2018 - 2020	Chinese indentured labour in the colonial Asia Pacific region, 1919 to 1966 Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2013 - 2017	Networks and Narratives: traffic in women and girls in the Asia Pacific region, 1865 - 1940 Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Future Fellowships
2011 - 2013	A transcolonial history of domestic service in the Asia-Pacific Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2012	The traffic in women and children in the Philippines during the American occupation Awarded by: U.S. Studies Centre Funding Scheme: Grant
2007	Australian Multiculturalism Awarded by: Korean Women's Development Institute Funding Scheme: Project Grant
2007	Indonesian labour migration to North Australia, 1880 - 1972 Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Potential Supervision Topics

I am available to supervise students in the field of history, particularly concerning the period from 1880 to 1960. Topics of interest include colonialism, migration, labour, gender, Indigenous histories and Australia-Asia-Pacific relations.

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	A history of artists' depictions of heritage sites in the Hawkesbury from 1794	Roberts, Carol
Doctor of Philosophy	The New Cultural Movement and the Chinese Diaspora in Australia, 1910s to 1930s	Zhang, Renzhe
Doctor of Philosophy	J. T Beckett first Chief Inspector of Aborigines in the Northern Territory and Australian Settler Colonialism	Tan, Leonie

Education And Training

Ph.D. in History, University of Wollongong, School of History and Politics, Plural Australia: Aboriginal and Asia Labour in Tropical White Australia, Darwin, 1911-40. 1996 - 2000

Awards And Honors

Patricia Grimshaw Prize, conferred by Australian Historical Studies , 2018
University of Southern Queensland History Book Award , conferred by Queensland Literary Awards, , 2016
Northern Territory History Book Award, conferred by NT Chief Minister, 2016

Teaching Overview

HIST204: Illicit Trades: Trafficking and Slavery in Global History

Keywords

Asia Pacific history
Gender History
Historical Studies
Labour Migration

Full Name

Assoc. Prof. Julia Teresa Martinez

Mailing Address

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts, Building 19

Northfields Avenue

University of Wollongong

NSW

2522

Australia

Orcid Id

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0459-8105 (confirmed)

Overview

Top Publications

Research Areas

Research Overview

Geographic Focus

Available as Research Supervisor

Affiliation

Member Of

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Book

Chapter

Conference Paper

Other Publications

Editor Of

Book

Funding

Investigator On

Supervision

Available as Research Supervisor

Potential Supervision Topics

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Background

Education And Training

Awards And Honors

Teaching Overview

Keywords

Contact

Full Name

Mailing Address

Identity

Orcid Id

Overview

Top Publications

Research Areas

Research Overview

Geographic Focus

Affiliation

Member Of

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Book

Chapter

Conference Paper

Other Publications

Editor Of

Book

Funding

Investigator On

Supervision

Potential Supervision Topics

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Background

Education And Training

Awards And Honors

Teaching Overview

Keywords

Contact

Full Name

Mailing Address

Identity

Orcid Id

Visualisations

Research Areas

Geographic Focus