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Wilton, Janis
Adjunct Assoc. Prof Janis Wilton (OAM) is a public and applied historian with a particular interest in oral history, local and family history, ethnic community history, and history and museums. She has published widely on the history of New England, with a particular focus on regional migration.
Before her retirement in 2017, she coordinated and taught into the UNE’s courses on local, family and applied history, and supervised research students in these areas.
Publications include:
Janis Wilton, Hong Yuen: A Country Store and Its People, New South Wales Multicultural Education Coordinating Committee & Armidale College of Advanced Education, Armidale, 1988.
Wilton, Janis and New England Regional Art Museum, Golden Threads : The Chinese in Regional New South Wales, 1850-1950 (New England Regional Art Museum in association with Powerhouse Pub., 2004)
Wilton, Janis, Different Sights: Immigrants in New England. A thematic history of immigrants from non-English-speaking backgrounds on the New England Tableland. Haymarket, N.S.W. : NSW Migration Heritage Centre, 2009.




