Ruth Balint

Ruth Balint is a senior lecturer in History in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales. She has published widely on displacement, refugees and migration, and has also made documentaries for radio and television, including her 2014 documentary The Somerton Man: A Mystery in Four Parts for ABC Radio National. She is the author of Troubled Waters: Borders, Boundaries and Possession in the Timor Sea.