Academy Fellow

Amanda Nettelbeck is a Professor in the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at the Australian Catholic University, and Professor of History at the University of Adelaide. Her research centres on Australian and comparative settler colonial history of the former British Empire. It addresses the relationship between settler colonial violence and ideas of humane governance, the relationship of Indigenous people to colonial law; and the ongoing legacies of settler colonialism in historical memory. She is author, co-author or co-editor of numerous books, including most recently Indigenous Rights and Colonial Subjecthood (Cambridge 2019), Intimacies of Violence in the Settler Colony (co-edited with Penelope Edmonds, Palgrave 2018), Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World (co-edited with Philip Dwyer, Palgrave 2017), and Fragile Settlements (co-authored with Russell Smandych et al, UBC Press 2016). She is currently working on two collaborative research projects funded by ARC grants: a history of how the concept of citizenship has been envisaged in Australia from colonisation to the present, and a project on reconciling with histories of frontier conflict.

Professor, Institute for Humanities & Social Sciences, ACU (2020-)

Professor, School of Humanities (History), University of Adelaide (2011-)

Keith Cameron Chair in Australian History, University College Dublin (2018)

Libraries Board of South Australia (2020-)

ARC College of Experts (2020-2022)

Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (elected 2020)

Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (elected 2015)

Tom Stannage Fellow (2019)

Australian Historical Studies Executive (2020-)

Australian & New Zealand Law & History Society Vice-President & Executive (2018-)

International Australian Studies Association Executive (2014-)

Adjunct, Purai-Global Indigenous and Diaspora Research Centre, University of Newcastle

Adjunct, Research Centre for the History of Violence, University of Newcastle,

Member, Public Law & Policy Research Unit, University of Adelaide

Australian Historical Studies Editorial Board

law & history Editorial Board

Awarded, Australian & New Zealand Law & Society Association Prize (article) (2018)

Shortlisted, Australian Historical Studies Patricia Grimshaw Prize (article) (2016)

Honourable Mention, John Barrett Award for Australian Studies (article) (2008)

Shortlisted, Chief Minister’s NT History Book Award (In the Name of the Law) (2007)

Awarded, John Tragenza History Award (Fatal Collisions) (2002)

Shortlisted, NSW Premier’s Award (non-fiction) (Fatal Collisions) (200)

1. Indigenous Rights and Colonial Subjecthood (Cambridge University Press, 2019)

2. Intimacies of Violence in the Settler Colony (co-edited with Penelope Edmonds, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)

3. Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World (co-edited with Philip Dwyer, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)

4. Fragile Settlements: Aboriginal Peoples, Law and Resistance in Southwest Australia and Prairie Canada (with Russell Smandych et al, UBC Press, 2016)

5. Out of the Silence: South Australia’s Frontier Wars in History and Memory (with Robert Foster, Wakefield, 2012)