Margaret Allen, Professor Emerita in Gender Studies at the University of Adelaide, she researches transnational, postcolonial and gendered histories, focusing upon links between India and Australia from c1880-1940. She has published on Australian missionaries in India and the experiences of Indian men negotiating the White Australia Policy. Currently she is working on an Australian Research Centre funded project, ‘Beyond Empire transnational religious networks & liberal cosmopolitanisms’ with Associate Professor Jane Haggis (Flinders), Professor Fiona Paisley (Griffith) and Professor Clare Midgley (Sheffield Hallam). With these scholars she recently published, Cosmopolitan Lives on the Cusp of Empire: Interfaith, Cross-Cultural and Transnational Networks, 1860-1950, Palgrave Pivot, 2017.