Rate My Professor Julie McIntyre

Associate Professor Julie McIntyre serves in the School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences (History) within the College of Human and Social Futures at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She earned her PhD from the University of Sydney and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours First Class) from the University of Newcastle, where she received the University Medal and Faculty Medal. Her academic career encompasses roles such as Research Fellow on an Australian Research Council Linkage Project "Vines, Wine & Identity" (2015–), Rydon Fellow at the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King’s College London (2010), Lecturer at the University of New South Wales (2010), and sessional teaching positions at the University of Sydney and University of Newcastle (2000–2009). Presently, she co-founded and directs the Wine Studies Research Network, previously directed the Centre for 21st Century Humanities, and from 2025 will convene the Bachelor of Arts program. She supervises higher degree research students on topics including wine industry and climate change, settler citrus-growing, Worimi-settler history, and colonial political history.

McIntyre's research specializations include agriculture, Australian and international wine studies, environmental history, histories of science, Indigenous-settler colonial relations, knowledge mobilities, and tourism. Key publications feature First Vintage: Wine in Colonial New South Wales (UNSW Press, 2012), a finalist in the New South Wales Premier's History Awards; Hunter Wine: A History (with John Germov, NewSouth, 2018), awarded an International Organisation of Vine and Wine Jury Prize Special Mention for History; and Wine, Networks and Scales: Intermediation in the Production, Distribution and Consumption of Wine (2020). Additional works encompass chapters such as 'Awabakal and Nikkin: Reconnecting Histories of First Peoples, Coal and Colonists' (2024) and '“For us as experimentalists”: An Australian case study of scientific values in nineteenth-century New World winegrowing' (2022). Honors include the Fulbright Senior Scholar Award at the University of California, Davis (2019), University of Newcastle Women in Research Fellowship (2022), State Library of NSW Merewether Fellowship (2018), and Vice-Chancellor's Research Excellence Awards (2013). She contributes editorially to Settler Colonial Studies, served as Secretary of the History Council of NSW (2021–2025), and engages in international collaborations, including funded visits to the University of British Columbia and University of Toronto.