Heather Goodall, is an Australian academic and historian. She is Emeritus Professor at the

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. Her research and writing focuses on Indigenous and environmental history and intercolonial networks. Goodall graduated from the

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in 1975 and was awarded the University Medal in History. She received a PhD from the same university in 1982 for her thesis "A History of Aboriginal Communities in New South Wales, 1909–1939".

Awards and recognition

Goodall won the inaugural Australian History Prize at the

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in 1997 for ''Invasion to Embassy'' and a Rona Tranby Award in 1998. She won the

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in 2005 for ''Isabel Flick'', co-written by the subject, Isabel Flick. Goodall was elected a

Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) is an independent, non-governmental organisation devoted to the advancement of knowledge and research in the social sciences. It has its origins in the Social Science Research Council of Austr ...

in 2007. She is also a Fellow of the

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. ''Rivers and Resilience'' was shortlisted for the Community and Regional History Prize at the New South Wales Premier's History Awards in 2010.''''

Selected works

* ''Invasion to Embassy: Land in Aboriginal politics in New South Wales, 1770–1972'', Allen & Unwin with Black Books, 1996 * ''Isabel Flick: The Many Lives of an Extraordinary Aboriginal Woman'', co-written by Isabel Flick, Allen & Unwin, 2004 * ''Rivers and Resilience: Aboriginal people on Sydney's Georges River'', co-written by Allison Cadzow, UNSW Press, 2009 * ''Beyond Borders: Indians, Australians and the Indonesian Revolution, 1939 to 1950'', Amsterdam University Press, 2018

References

Australian historians Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Fellows of the Royal Society of New South Wales Living people University of Sydney alumni University of Technology Sydney faculty Year of birth missing (living people) {{Australia-writer-stub