Christine Winter studied at the Friedrich Alexander Universitaet Erlangen-Nuremberg, Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen, Universitaet Hamburg and the Australian National University.

Christine Winter's work combines history of science and migration and identity studies. Her Matthew Flinders Fellowship research project Humaniarianism or Security? The New Global Health analyses through a regional focus Australia's role in health research, infrastructure development and humanitarian intervention.

The ARC Future Fellowship Mixed-Race German Diasporas in Southern Hemisphere Mandates: race science, policies and identity transformation analyses overlapping colonial rule and legacies through the lense of a history of individuals and families of multi-racial descent in the Global South from Australasia, New Guinea, Samoa to Namibia and South Africa.

Christine has published widely on Pacific-European relations during the late 19th and 20th century, and on the impact of WWI and WWII. Her work analyses a wide range of subjects in the Asia Pacific: the politics of Christian missions; how social scientists in Australasia were effected by war; ethnographic collecting; the development of race science; transnational politics of internment; colonial ideologies of loyalty.