Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

Authored Books

• Wolffram H. (2018) Forensic Psychology in Germany: Witnessing Crime, 1880-1939. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 257.

• Wolffram H. (2009) The Stepchildren of Science: Psychical Research and Parapsychology in Germany, c. 1870-1939. The Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine Vol 88. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi. 350pp.

Journal Articles

• Wolffram H. (2021) Teaching Forensic Science to the American Police and Public: The Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory, 1929-1938. Academic Forensic Pathology 11(1): 52-67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/19253621211002515.

• Maehle AH. and Wolffram H. (2017) History of hypnotism in Europe and the significance of place. Notes and Records 71(2): 119-123. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2017.0011.

• Wolffram HM. (2017) Crime and hypnosis in fin-de-siècle Germany: the Czynski case. Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science 71(2): 213-226. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2017.0005.

• Wolffram HM. (2017) Crime and hypnosis in fin-de-siècle Germany: the Czynski case. Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science 71(2): 213-226. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2017.0005.

• Wolffram HM. (2017) The Criminological Construction of Female Mediumship in Early Twentieth-Century Germany. Preternature 6(2): 337-359.

• Wolffram HM. and Maehle AH. (2017) History of hypnotism in Europe and the significance of place. Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science 71(2): 119-123. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2017.0011.

• Wolffram H. (2015) “God save us from psychologists as expert witnesses”: The battle for forensic psychology in early twentieth-century Germany. History of Psychology 18(4): 337-352. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0039799.

• Wolffram H. (2012) Hallucination or materialisation? The animism versus spiritism debate in late-19th-century Germany. History of the Human Sciences 25(2): 45-66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0952695112439375.

• Wolffram H. (2012) Trick', 'Manipulation' and 'Farce': Albert Moll's Critique of Occultism. Medical History 56(2): 277-295. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2011.37.

• Wolffram H. (2010) An Object of Vulgar Curiosity: Legitimizing Medical Hypnosis in Imperial Germany. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 67(1): 149-176. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrq072.

• Wolffram H. (2009) Crime, Clairvoyance and the Weimar Police. Journal of Contemporary History 44(4): 581-601. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022009409339436.

• Wolffram H. (2009) In the Laboratory of the Ghost Baron: Parapsychology in Germany in the Early 20th Century. Endeavour 33(4): 152-157. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.endeavour.2009.10.001.

• Wolffram H. (2006) Parapsychology on the couch: The psychology of occult belief in Germany, c. 1870-1939. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 42(3): 237-260. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.20171.

• Wolffram H. (2003) Supernormal Biology: Vitalism, Parapsychology, and the German Crisis of Modernity, c. 1890-1933. The European Legacy 8(2): 149-163. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10848770309455.

Chapters

• Wolffram H. (2023) Teaching Grossian criminalistics in Imperial Germany. Forensic cultures in modern Europe: 92-116.

• Wolffram H. (2020) " Forensic Psychology in Historical Perspective". In Pickern W; Hegarty P; Logan C; Long W; Pettikainen P; Rutherford A (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of PsychologyOxford University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190236557.013.639.

• Wolffram H. (2020) 'Children's Lies': The Weimar Press as Psychological Expert in Child Sex Abuse Trials. In Adam A (Ed.), Crime and the Construction of Forensic Objectivity from 1850Palgrave Macmillan.

• Wolffram H. (2019) Forensic Knowledge and Forensic Networks in Britain's Empire: The Case of Sydney Smith. In Burney I; Hamlin C (Ed.), Global Forensic Cultures Making Fact and Justice in the Modern EraJHU Press.

• Wolffram HM. (2017) The History of Policing. In Gilbert J; Newbold G (Ed.), Criminal Justice: A New Zealand Introduction: 70-90. Auckland: Auckland University Press.

• Wolffram H. (2010) The Nazi Occult and The Castle in the Forest: Raw History and Fictional Transformation. In Whalen-Bridge J (Ed.), Norman Mailer's Later Fictions: Ancient Evenings through Castle in the Forest: 139-158. Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Conference Contributions - Other

• Wolffram H. (2018) Bombs, Bullets and Ballistics in Inter-War Egypt. The University of the West Indies, Barbados: Legal History and Empires: Perspectives from the Colonized Conference, 11-14 Jul 2018.

• Wolffram H. (2018) The assassination of the Sirdar and the development of forensic ballistics in inter-war Egypt. Edge Hill University, United Kingdom: British Crime Historians Symposium 2018, 31 Aug-1 Sep 2018.

• Wolffram H. (2017) Unreliable Witnesses? Juvenile Testimony in Weimar Sex Crimes Trials. University of Canterbury, Christchurch: 36th Annual Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society Conference, 14-16 Dec 2017.

• Wolffram HM. (2016) The Berchtold Trial and its Impact. University of Canterbury: HISTORIES OF FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY AND FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY, 17-18 Mar 2016.

• Wolffram HM. (2015) Forensic Knowledge and Forensic Networks in Britain’s Empire.. University of Notre Dame Global Gateway, Trafalgar Square, London: Locating Forensic Science and Medicine, 24-25 Jul 2015.

• Wolffram HM. (2014) CRIME AND HYPNOSIS IN FIN DE SIÉCLE GERMANY: THE CZYNSKI TRIAL. Lisbon, Portugal: 6th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science,, 4-6 Sep 2014.

• Wolffram HM. (2013) The medium as criminal: Psychical research, criminology and female criminality in early twentieth-century Germany. UCL, London, UK: Psychical Research and Parapsychology in the History of Medicine and the Sciences, 25-27 Jan 2013.

• Wolffram HM. (2013) Witnessing crime: The birth of the witness at the fin de siècle. Wellington, New Zealand: Australasian Association for European Historians (AAEH) XXIII Biennial Conference, 2-5 Jul 2013.

• Wolffram HM. (2010) "My only hope lies in a cure by means of hypnosis": Problems with the psychological model of homosexuality in late nineteenth-century Europe. Prato, Italy: Transgression and Discipline in the History of Sexuality Conference, 13-15 Sep 2010.

• Wolffram HM. (2010) Hallucination or Materialisation? The Hartmann-Aksakov Debate and the Confrontation Between Psychical Research and Psychology in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany. Utrecht, The Netherlands: The European Society of the History of Human Sciences Conference 2010 (ESHHS 2010), 23-27 Aug 2010.

• Wolffram H. (2009) "Trick", "manipulation" and "farce": Albert Moll's critique of occultism. Durham University, Durham, UK: Sex, Ethics and Psychology: The Networks and Cultural Context of Albert Moll (1862-1939), 5-6 Nov 2009.

• Wolffram H. (2009) Legitimizing Medical Hypnosis in Imperial Germany: A Two-Front War. Perth, Australia: 11th Biennial Conference 2009 Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine, 28 Sep-1 Oct 2009.

• Wolffram HM. (2009) Crime, Memory, and Suggestion in Fin de Siècle Germany. Adelaide, Australia: Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association for European History (AAEH), 6-9 Jul 2009.

Oral Presentations

• Wolffram H. (2020) Unreliable Witnesses? Juvenile Testimony, Forensic Psychology & the Press in Weimar Trials. University of Canterbury: History Department Seminar Series, 18 Mar 2020.

• Wolffram H. (2019) Death on the Nile:Forensic Ballistics in Inter-War Egypt.. University of Canterbury: History Department Seminar Series, 15 May 2019.

• Wolffram H. (2018) Unreliable Witness? Juvenile Testimony and Forensic Psychology in Weimar Sex Crime Trials.. University of Durham, United Kingdom: Department of Philosophy Departmental Research Seminar Series, 25 Oct 2018.

Other

• Wolffram H. (2018) Murder and the making of English CSI. Journal of British Studies: 887-888. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2018.150.

• Wolffram H. (2018) Murder and the making of English CSI. Journal of British Studies: 887-888. Cambridge University Press (CUP). http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2018.150. [Book Review].

• Wolffram HM. (2017) Violent Sensations: Sex, Crime & Utopia in Vienna and Berlin, 1860–1914. By Scott Spector. German History Oxford University Press (OUP). http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghx025.

• Wolffram HM. (2016) That Devil's Trick: Hypnotism and the Victorian Popular Imagination. Nineteenth-Century Contexts 38(4): 295-297. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08905495.2016.1185967.

• Wolffram HM. (2016) The Corrigible and the Incorrigible: Science, Medicine and the Convict in Twentieth-Century Germany. By Greg Eghigian. German History 34(2): 338-340. Oxford University Press.

Oral Presentations

• Wolffram H. (2015) God save us from psychologists as expert witnesses": The battle for forensic psychology in early twentieth-century Germany. History Department, University of Canterbury, New Zealand: History Seminar Series. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0039799.

• Wolffram HM. (2015) Criminal Minds: A History of Offender Profiling. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand: History Department Seminar Series.

• Wolffram HM. (2015) Dangerous Minds: Contested Narratives of Criminal Profiling. University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia: Centre for the History of European Discourses Seminar Series.

Other

• Wolffram HM. (2015) Crime and Criminal Justice in Modern Germany. Edited by Richard F. Wetzell. Central European History 48(4): 580-582. Emory University.

• Wolffram HM. (2015) Julia Mannherz, Modern Occultism in Late Imperial Russia. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2012; x+275pp. Journal of Modern History 87(1): 243-245. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/680136. [Book Review].

Oral Presentations

• Wolffram HM. (2014) "A School for Manhunters": Northwestern's Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory, 1929-1938. Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, United Kingdom: CHSTM Seminar Series.

• Wolffram HM. (2014) Hans Gross and the Birth of the Witness. University College London, London, UK: History of Psychiatry and Psychology Seminar Series.

Other

• Wolffram HM. (2014) Daniel Pick, The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess, and the Analysts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012; 368pp. Australian Journal of Politics and History 60(1): 146-147. [Book Review].

Oral Presentations

• Wolffram HM. (2013) In the Laboratory of the Ghost Baron: Mediums, Spirits and Ectoplasm in the Early Twentieth Century. University of Canterbury, New Zealand: Canterbury Historical Association.

• Wolffram HM. (2013) Witnessing Crime: The Birth of the Witness at the fin de siecle. University of Canterbury: History Seminar Series.

• Wolffram HM. (2012) “God save us from psychologists as expert witnesses’: The Battle for Forensic Psychology in Weimar Germany". History Department, University of Canterbury: History Seminar Series.

• Wolffram HM. (2012) Hypnosis on Trial: The Czynski Case, Munich 1894. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand: Canterbury Historical Association Meeting.

• Wolffram HM. (2012) Svengali on Trial: The Czynski Case, Munich 1894. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago History Department Seminar.

Other

• Wolffram HM. (2012) Investigating the Supernatural: From Spiritism and Occultism to Psychical Research and Metapsychists in France, 1853-1931. By Sofie Lachapelle. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. French History 26(4) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fh/crs108. [Book review].

• Wolffram HM. (2012) M. Brady Brower. Unruly Spirits: The Science of Psychic Phenomena in Modern France. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2010. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 48(1): 80-81. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.21519. [Book Review].

• Wolffram HM. (2011) Swedenborg, Mesmer, and the Mind/Body Connection: The Roots of Complementary Medicine. John S. Haller, Jr,West Chester, PA: Swedenborg Foundation, 2010. History of Medicine 55(4): 555-556.

Oral Presentations

• Wolffram H. (2010) Crimes of Suggestion: An Untold Story in the History of the Psychology of Testimony? University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK: Science Studies Unit Seminars.

Other

• Wolffram H. (2010) Immortal Longings: FWH Myers and the Victorian Search for Life After Death by Trevor Hamilton. Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2009. Australian Journal of Politics and History 56(1): 148-150. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8497.2010.01546.x. [Book Review].

• Wolffram H. (2010) Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy by Eric D. Weitz. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2009. Australian Journal of Politics and History 56(1): 151-152. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8497.2010.01546.x. [Book Review].

Oral Presentations

• Wolffram H. (2009) Parapsychology on the couch: the psychology of occult belief in Germany.. c. 1870-1939. University College, London, UK: Public Seminar Series in the History of Psychology and Psychiatry.

Other

• Wolffram H. (2009) Owen Davies, The Haunted: A Social History of Ghosts. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. The European Legacy 14(3): 373. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10848770902931743. [Book Review].

• Wolffram H. (2008) Sarah A. Wilburn, Possessed Victorians: Extra Spheres in Nineteenth-Century Mystical Writing. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. The European Legacy 13(6): 795-796. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10848770802358153. [Book Review].

Student Supervision

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Current
• PhD - Leggatt H: Burning God’s Own: History of Modern Cremation in New Zealand, 1874-1970
• PhD - Paterson L: Garrisonian Citizenship: Abolitionist Democracy in History and Historiography
• PhD - Richardson J: “Hygiene as the handmaid of civilisation” The 1863 military reforms in sanitation and their wider impact on public health in India
• Masters - Smith J: Abraham Lincoln: The Evolution of his Political Thought from Clay to Jefferson
• Masters - Farrow A: Women’s Experiences in the British Union of Fascists
• Honours - Powley C: The F-Word: Is Donald Trump a Fascist? Comparative History as Tool to for Understanding Fascism and Trump’s Ideology
Completed
• PhD - Averina-Lugova D: Crimea at a Time of Change: Urban Everyday Life, 1954-1964
• Masters - Berliner A: The Development of Academic and Professional Psychology in New Zealand between the two World Wars. (2014)
• Masters - Clark J: Prison Reform in Nineteenth-Century British India (2014)
• Masters - Dowd O: A MAN’S WORLD: FEMALE CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS IN NEW ZEALAND MEN’S PRISONS (2020)
• Masters - Easton H: Communities and Interactions in Nineteenth-Century Toxicology in Scotland and England (2017)
• Masters - Foss N: Fort Leavenworth and The Evolution of Military Justice in the United States (2018)
• Masters - Gillan T: The Trial as Tool: The Intentions and Purpose of the Tokyo War Crimes Trials in the Post-War World. (2014)
• Masters - Huang M: Forensic illusions: Medico-legal representations, scandals and reform in mid-twentieth century Britain, Canada and New Zealand (2020)
• Masters - Landers T: Western historiographical trajectories of Stalin, 1925-1956 (2020)
• Masters - Mackenzie J: A nonparametric view of the civilizing process in London's Old Bailey (2015)
• Masters - Meares J: Dangerous Women and Reasonable Men: Gender and Eyewitness Testimony at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (2016)
• Masters - Morris P: “Their nerves were shot to shreds – our own weren’t too steady either.” Attitudes Towards Psychological Casualties in the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1939 to 1945. (2013)
• Masters - Vogel G: Crossroads: commemorative names in East Berlin, 1990 – 2010 (2012)
• Masters - Wahl M: “It would be better, if some doctors were sent to work in the coal mines” The SED and the medical Intelligentsia between 1961 and 1981 (2013)
• Honours - Abdullahi H: The Cold War Origins of the Odagen War (2013)
• Honours - Aitken J: ‘Welcomed with Open Arms?’ An analysis of New Zealand’s response to refugees fleeing Europe in the years 1935-1945. (2017)
• Honours - Bailey B: ‘More than just a bump in the road?’ A critical analysis of the effects of the Muldergate scandal on South Africa’s international relations and trade with the United States and Great Britain in the 1970s and 1980s. (2017)
• Honours - Boot L: Reproductive rights and wrongs: abortion and infanticide as crimes in nineteenth-century England (2017)
• Honours - Cheer M: How National Socialist was the Wehrmacht? (2013)
• Honours - Clark J: The Changing Perspectives Towards Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century London (2016)
• Honours - Cook H: Male and Female Camp Guards during the Holocaust (2015)
• Honours - Easton H: Toxic tabloids toxicology, the press, and the public in nineteenth-century England. (2015)
• Honours - Farrow A: An Attack on Womanhood: The Sterilisation of Women in Nazi Germany (2016)
• Honours - Gavin S: Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Christian Resistance and Ethics in Nazi Germany. (2014)
• Honours - Glover E: The Third Reich and Propaganda: The Power of Music in Radio and Film (2016)
• Honours - Gray H: New Zealand Policing during the interwar period, with emphasis on reasoning behind women entering the Police force. (2018)
• Honours - Huang M: Sir Sydney Smith's contribution to the change of the medical detective's working style from 'lone expert' to 'ateam of scientists' in early twentieth century England and Scotland (2014)
• Honours - Kimberley A: Cultural Experiences of New Zealanders in the RAF during World War Two (2013)
• Honours - King-Hudson J: Hormones, Homosexuality and the Holocaust: The Nazi “Cure” for Homosexuality (2016)
• Honours - Richardson D: “Fascism Alone Will Save This Country” – presentations of decline, rebirth and the enemy in the newspapers of the British Union of Fascists (2019)
• Honours - Roche E: “Aspects of the Indoctrination of German Youth in the Third Reich Through the Modes of Education, Family Life and Youth Group Affiliation” (2020)
• Honours - Schumacher S: Racialist Thinking in the Life and Work of Francis Galton. (1822-1911) (2019)
• Honours - Summ K: Representing Life and Death: Survivors and memories of Mauthausen Concentration Camp (2011)
• Honours - Westley H: The Women's War: The Role of Women in Nazi Occupied Europe (2019)

Review and Refereeing

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• History of the Human Sciences ( 2017 )
• Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences ( 2006 - 2023)
• Refereeing of a book proposal for Palgrave Macmillan and article submissions for Central European History and Journal for the History of the Behavioral Sciences. ( 2014 - 2023)

Future Research

• Forensic Knowledge and Forensic Networks in Britain’s Empire