Reframing Indigenous Biography

This book explores the history, practice and possibilities of writing about the lives of First Nations’ peoples in Australia as well as Aotearoa New Zealand, North America and the Pacific.

Shino Konishi FAHA is a Yawuru historian and Associate Professor in the School of Indigenous Studies and School of Humanities at the University of Western Australia. She is the author of The Aboriginal Male in the Enlightenment World (2012) and The Lives and Legacies of a Carceral Island: A Biographical History of Wadjemup/Rottnest Island (2023) with Ann Curthoys and Alexandra Ludewig.

Malcolm Allbrook is managing editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, editor of the Australian Journal of Biography and History, and senior lecturer in history at The Australian National University. His most recent book is Family History and Historians in Australia and New Zealand (with Sophie Scott-Brown, 2021).

Tom Griffiths AO FAHA is Chair of the Editorial Board of the Australian Dictionary of Biography and Emeritus Professor of History at the Australian National University. His books and essays have won prizes in literature, history, science, politics and journalism and include Hunters and Collectors (1996) and The Art of Time Travel: Historians and their Craft (2016).