Rebe Taylor is an English-born Australian historian and author specialising in southeast Australian indigenous peoples and European settlement.

Early life

Taylor was born in London and came to live in

Adelaide Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The dem ...

, South Australia with her family at the age of five. As a child she had several film roles, including in ''For the Term of His Natural Life'' (miniseries) (1983) and the Scott Hicks film, ''

Sebastian and the Sparrow ''Sebastian and the Sparrow'' is a 1988 Australian film directed by Scott Hicks.David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p355-356 Hicks says he wanted to make the film one he c ...

'' (1988).

Career

Taylor studied for her MA in History at the

University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb nor ...

, graduating in 1996. She completed her PhD at the

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies and ...

in 2004. In 2015 she was awarded the inaugural Coral Thomas Fellowship by the

State Library of New South Wales The State Library of New South Wales, part of which is known as the Mitchell Library, is a large heritage-listed special collections, reference and research library open to the public and is one of the oldest libraries in Australia. Establish ...

. At the end of her two-year term she gave the inaugural Coral Thomas Lecture titled "The untold story of the Wedge Collection" on

John Helder Wedge John Helder Wedge (1793 – 22 November 1872) was a surveyor, explorer and politician in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania, Australia).G. H. Stancombe'Wedge, John Helder (1793 - 1872), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Online Edition Wedge was ...

. In April 2018 she became Senior Research Fellow at the College of Arts, Law and Education at the

University of Tasmania The University of Tasmania (UTAS) is a public research university, primarily located in Tasmania, Australia. Founded in 1890, it is Australia's fourth oldest university. Christ College, one of the university's residential colleges, first pro ...

Awards

*Winner, Non-Fiction Award at the

Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature The Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature comprise a group of biennially-granted literary awards established in 1986 by the Government of South Australia, announced during Adelaide Writers' Week, as part of the Adelaide Festival. The awards i ...

, 2004, for ''Unearthed: The Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island'' *Winner, University of Southern Queensland History Book Award at the 2017

Queensland Literary Awards The Queensland Literary Awards is an awards program established in 2012 by the Queensland literary community, funded by sponsors and administered by the State Library of Queensland. Like the former Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, the QLAs ...

, for ''Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search for Human Antiquity'' *Winner, Tasmania Book Prize,

Tasmanian Premier's Literary Prizes The Tasmanian Premier's Literary Prizes are literary prizes that are awarded biennially in four categories by the Tasmanian Government. There are two panels of three judges: one for the book prizes, the other for the emerging writers and young wr ...

, 2017, for ''Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search for Human Antiquity'' *Winner, Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History, 2018, for ''Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search for Human Antiquity''

Works

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External links

Official website

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Australian historians Australian women historians University of Melbourne alumni Australian National University alumni University of Tasmania faculty Living people {{Australia-historian-stub