Education
2011-2016: PhD (Deakin University) Thesis – “Experts’ History: the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial and Anatomie des SS-Staates” Examiners: Ulrich Herbert (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität), Konrad Kwiet (Sydney Jewish Museum), and Dieter Pohl (Universität Klagenfurt)
2002: First-Class Honours in History (Deakin University) Thesis title: Holocaust Historiography on Trial: the Lipstadt-Irving Libel Case Publications
M. Turner, Historians at the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial: Their Role as Expert Witnesses, I.B.Tauris, London, scheduled February 2018.
D. Frieze, T. Joel, M. Turner, ‘Teaching the Holocaust from Afar: an Australian Perspective’ in A. Pearce (ed.), Remembering the Holocaust in Educational Settings, Routledge, scheduled 2018.
M. Turner, D. Lowe, T. Joel, ‘“Between Politics and Scholarship”: the First Decade of the Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1948-1958’, (submitted to German History, August 2017).
R. Gidley, M. Turner, ‘Judicializing History: Mass Crimes Trials and Historians as Expert Witnesses’, (submitted to Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, October 2017)
M. Turner, ‘Historians’ Disgrace?’, Inside Story, , 14 November 2017.
M. Turner, ‘A “Blueprint” for History?’, Contemporary Histories Blog, Contemporary Histories Research Group, Deakin University, , 13 April 2017.
M. Turner, ‘Denial – a timely reminder that we should confront distortions of history’, The Conversation website, , 12 April 2017. Upcoming Talks and Conferences
‘“A “Blueprint” for History? Prosecutors, Historians, and the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, The Thirteenth Meeting of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Brisbane, 9-13 July 2017.
‘“Gutachten are worthless here”: Historians as Experts, Judicial Irrelevance, and the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, 1963-1965’, German Studies Association 40th Annual Conference, San Diego, 29 September-2 October 2016.
‘The “Men from Munich” and the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial’, Sechstes DoktorandenSeminar des Fritz Bauer Institutes, Martin-Niemöller-Haus, Arnoldshain, Germany, September 2014.
‘Shaping Historiography: The Auschwitz Trial and Historians as Expert Witnesses’, 16. Wissenschaftliches Halbjahrsgespräch des Lehrstuhls für Neuere und Neueste Geschichte Wintersemester 2013-14, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, 30 January 2014.
‘NS-Nachkriegsgeschichte und Kalter Krieg’, panel discussion, Seminartag zum Thema “Innere Sicherheit”, Doktorandenschule, Jena Center Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, 11 December 2013.
‘German Historians and the Shaping of Holocaust Historiography – Peter Longerich’s The Unwritten Order’, (Post)Dok-Plattform, Erfahrungsgeschichte und „Die gesellschaftliche Konstruktion der Wirklichkeit“ Universität zu Köln, Historisches Institut, 7 July 2012.
‘German Historians as Expert Witnesses and the Shaping of Holocaust Historiography: the case of Martin Broszat’, Contemporary History: The past that’s still with us, Alfred Deakin Research Institute, Deakin University, Waterfront Campus, 30 November 2012.
