Dr Amanda Lourie is an historian. She has worked as a researcher in native title and undertaken cultural heritage work. Amanda has been a project officer and researcher for the ARC project, ‘Howitt and Fison’s Archive’, and researcher for the ARC project ‘Lawful Relations’. She is about to commence as a researcher on the ARC project ‘Entangled Knowledges in the Robert Neill Collection’. Amanda also works as a casual academic teacher and has had articles published in the Victorian Historical Journal, Oceania and the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History. She completed her PhD, ‘From paddock to page: ethnological engagement in 1850s–1860s colonial Victoria’, at Deakin University in late 2017. Amanda is currently the vice president (executive) of the Professional Historians Association (Victoria and Tasmania).

Author email: amanda_lourie@hotmail.com

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