Peter Monteath

Peter David Monteath (born 1961) is an Australian historian and academic. He is a professor in Modern European History at Flinders University in South Australia. Monteath's research interests are in modern European and Australian history. He has a particular interest in prisoners of war, internment, and the German presence in Australia and has written extensively on these subjects.

Peter Monteath
Born	1961 (age 62–63) Brisbane, Queensland
Awards	Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (1997) Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize (2004)
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Queensland (BA [Hons]) University of Siegen (MA) Griffith University (PhD)
Thesis	Literature, Politics and War: The Impact of Political Commitment on the International Literature of the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 (1990)
Academic work
Institutions	Flinders University
Main interests	Modern European and Australian history Prisoners of war and internment
Notable works	P.O.W. (2011) Red Professor (2015)

With Jean Fornasiero and John West-Soob, Monteath co-authored Encountering Terra Australis: the Australian Voyages of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders (Wakefield Press, 2004), which won the 2004 Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize.

Monteath co-authored with Valerie Munt Red Professor: The Cold War Life of Fred Rose (Wakefield Press, 2015), which was shortlisted for the 2016 Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History.

Bibliography

Author

• — (1994). Writing the Good Fight: Political Commitment in the International Literature of the Spanish Civil War. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 031328766X.
• —; Fornasiero, Jean; West-Sooby, John (2004). Encountering Terra Australis: The Australian Voyages of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders. Kent Town, South Australia: Wakefield Press. ISBN 1862546258.
• — (2005). Dear Dr Janzow: Australia's Lutheran Churches and Refugees from Hitler's Germany. Unley, South Australia: Australian Humanities Press. ISBN 0975831305.
• — (2011). P.O.W.: Australian Prisoners of War in Hitler's Reich. Sydney: Macmillan. ISBN 9781742610085.
• —; Paul, Mandy; Martin, Rebecca (2014). Interned: Torrens Island 1914-1915. Mile End, South Australia: Wakefield Press. ISBN 9781743053386.
• —; Munt, Valerie (2015). Red Professor: The Cold War Life of Fred Rose. Mile End, South Australia: Wakefield Press. ISBN 9781743053720.
• — (2017). Escape Artist: The Incredible Second World War of Johnny Peck. Sydney: NewSouth Publishing. ISBN 9781742235509.
• — (2018). Captured Lives: Australia's Wartime Internment Camps. Canberra: NLA Publishing. ISBN 9780642279248.

Editor

• —, ed. (1994). The Spanish Civil War in Literature, Film, and Art: An International Bibliography of Secondary Literature. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0313292620.
• Smith, Samuel (2002). — (ed.). Sailing with Flinders: The Journal of Seaman Samuel Smith. Adelaide: Corkwood Press. ISBN 1876247134.
• Creaghe, Caroline (2004). — (ed.). The Diary of Emily Creaghe Creaghe: Explorer. Adelaide: Corkwood Press. ISBN 9781876247140.
• —, ed. (2011). Germans: Travellers, Settlers and their Descendants in South Australia. Kent Town, South Australia: Wakefield Press. ISBN 9781743050101.
• Gerstäcker, Friedrich (2016). — (ed.). Australia: A German traveller in the age of gold. Mile End, South Australia: Wakefield Press. ISBN 9781743054192.