Faculty of Arts and Education

School of Humanities and Social Sciences


   Dr. Christopher Waters

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Position Associate Professor
Email christopher.waters@deakin.edu.au
Area School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Phone +61 3 924 43949
Campus Burwood
Location Burwood Campus (Room D/3.10)
Role and profile Chris Waters is a senior lecturer in twentieth century international history and Australian history. He has degrees from the University of Melbourne (BA/LLB), University of London (MA)and the University of New South Wales (PhD). He has published the following books, The Empire Fractures: Anglo-Australian Conflict in the 1940s(1995), Evatt to Evans: The Labor tradition in Australian foreign policy(editor: 1997), Ministers, Mandarins and Diplomats: Australian Foreign Policy Making 1941-1969 (Co-author: 2003) and Australia and Appeasement:Imperial Foreign Policy and the Origins of World War II (2012).
Teaching responsibilities AIH107 World History Between the Wars: 1919-1939, AIH238 Australia and the World Wars and AIH759 The Cold War: An International History
Research interests His research interests include the history of Australian foreign and defence policy, Anglo-Australian relations in the twentieth century, Australia and Asia in the twentieth century, Australia and the Origins of the Second World War, Cold War history and Australia and the Decolonisation of the European Empires.
Current research projects Chris Waters is working on the history of Australia and the Decolonisation of the South Pacific and a study of diplomats as biographers.
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22nd April 2013