Patricia Grimshaw is a Professor Emeritus and Professorial Research Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne where she taught Australian history and gender studies for many years. She was co-editor with Elizabeth Nelson and Sandra Smith of Letters from Aboriginal Women of Victoria, 1867–1926, a collection of Aboriginal women’s letters held in the archives of Public Record Office Victoria and the National Archives of Australia that was published in 2002. She has written a number of chapters and articles that draw on the letters, including most recently (with Joanna Cruickshank), ‘Women, Authority and Power on Ramahyuck Mission, Victoria, 1880–1910’ in Leigh Boucher and Lynette Russell (eds), Settler Colonial Governance in Nineteenth-Century Victoria, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 2015. She is a Chief Investigator on the ARC Linkage project, ‘Minutes of Evidence’, that focuses on the Coranderrk Reserve.

Author email: p.grimshaw@unimelb.edu.au