Mathew Turner

2011-2016: PhD (Deakin University)
Thesis title: Experts’ History: the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial and Anatomie des SS-Staates

Books
Historians at the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial: Their Role as Expert Witnesses, I.B.Tauris, London, 2018 (paperback 2020).

with Tony Joel, Line & Length: A History of the Geelong Cricket Club, Slattery Media Group, Melbourne, 2024.

with Tony Joel, On the Take: the 1910 Scandal that Changed Australian Football Forever, Slattery Media Group, Melbourne, 2020.

with Lior Zylberman (eds.), Distorted Remembering of the Holocaust and Other Genocides, Routledge, scheduled publication 2026.

Articles
with Tony Joel, "Anzac Day Football: From Rotating Ritual to Monopolized ‘Tradition’, 1960–2025", The International Journal of the History of Sport, pp. 1–20. https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/6FTQIIJCBFNQ5ACFCMTT/full?target=10.1080/09523367.2026.2613060.

with Tony Joel and Col Hutchinson, “From ‘Playing Dead’ to Turning Pro: the Victorian Football League’s Switch to Professionalism in 1911", The International Journal of the History of Sport, vol. 35, 2018, pp. 173-195.

first-authored, with Tony Joel, David Lowe, “‘Between Politics and Scholarship’: the First Decade of the Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1948-1958”, European History Quarterly, vol. 49, no. 2, April 2019, pp. 250-271.

Teaching
2012-2025
Undergraduate subjects ranging from the Holocaust to the history of Australian football.
Current role: Associate Teaching Fellow in History