Penny Edmonds is Associate Professor, History and Classics, University of Tasmania. Her research and teaching interests include colonial/postcolonial histories, humanitarianism and human rights, Australian and Pacific-region transnational histories, performance, visual culture and museums. Her latest book Settler Colonialism and (Re)conciliation: Frontier Violence, Affective Performances, and Imaginative Refoundings (Palgrave UK, 2016) was recently shortlisted for the Ernest Scott Prize in Australian and colonial history (2017).