Rate My Professor Christine De Matos

De Matos's research interests include Australian history, Australia-Japan relations, the Allied Occupation of Japan (1946-1952), military occupations and power, gender and history, labour history, digital history, and fiction and history. Her primary focus is the Australian role in the Allied Occupation of Japan, analyzing occupier-occupied relationships through gender, race, and class lenses. She has received the Japan Foundation Fellowship (2004), the Ann Moyal Essay Prize (2023), and the Circa Prize for best article (2020) for 'Dance as Performative Public History?: A journey through Spartacus'. Her publications include books such as Imposing Peace and Prosperity: Australia, Social Justice and Labour Reform in Occupied Japan 1945-1949 (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2008), Japan as the Occupier and the Occupied, co-edited with Mark E. Caprio (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Gender, Power and Military Occupation: Asia Pacific and the Middle East since 1945, co-edited with Rowena Ward (Routledge, 2012), and Occupying the 'Other': Australia and Military Occupations from Japan to Iraq, co-edited with Robin Gerster (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009). Recent articles comprise ‘The Home as a Space of Re-Education: Imperialism, Military Occupation, and Housekeeping Manuals’ (The International History Review, 2024), 'Visualising the Modern Housewife: US Occupier Women and the Home in the Allied Occupation of Germany, 1945–1949' (Histories, 2024), and ‘Forgotten Forced Migrants of War: Civilian internment of Japanese in British India, 1941–1946’, co-authored with Rowena Ward (Journal of Contemporary History, 2021).