Christine de Matos' primary research interest is the Australian role in the Allied Occupation of Japan (1946-1952), in particular using gender, race and class to elucidate the power dynamics of the occupier-occupied relationship. Her other teaching and research interests include Australian history, Japanese history, Australia-Asia relations, gender and history, and digital history. She has previously been a Japan Foundation Fellow (2004) and in 1999 was awarded the J.G. Crawford Award from the Australian-Japan Research Centre at the Australian National University.

Christine has published widely on Australia and the Allied Occupation, including her book Imposing Peace and Prosperity: Australia, Social Justice and Labour Reform in Occupied Japan 1945-1949 (ASP, 2008). Her most recent publication is Japan as the Occupier and the Occupied, coedited with Mark E. Caprio of Rikkyo University (Tokyo), to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in June 2015.

Professional Affiliations:

Professional Historians Association NSW & ACT (Inc)

Australian Historical Association

NSW Society of Editors

NSW Writers' Centre

In the Media:

 - de Matos, C and Camilla Nelson. ‘Historical fiction, fictional history: stories we tell about the past’, The Conversation, 9 June 2015, http://theconversation.com/historical-fiction-fictional-history-stories-we-tell-about-the-past-40315

 - Radio RTRFM 92.1 (WA), 'Radio interview: Anniversary of the Bombing of Hiroshima, and the Allied Occupation of Japan', 6 August 2014.

University of Notre Dame Australia, 'Anzac: A national religion?', for 'Tradition Conference', April 2013 . Available online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNX-AxKAS4k

 - Radio 2GN (Goulburn), 'Radio interview: Love under occupation: a personal journey through war, marriage and White Australia', February 2011.

 - 'Love under occupation: a personal journey through war, marriage and White Australia', Weekly Post (Goulburn), February 2011.

 - 'Love under occupation: a personal journey through war, marriage and White Australia', Goulburn Post, February 2011.