Ryan Stewart is a researcher at the University of Newcastle (Australia) and History teacher at Pymble Ladies’ College (Sydney, Australia). Ryan’s PhD research is centered around settler memories of frontier violence with First Nation peoples in Australia and the representations of Indigenous peoples in settler-centric local histories and historiography. Prior to Pymble Ladies’ College, Ryan was the Head of History at Moriah College (Sydney, Australia). In 2017 Ryan presented a paper at the New South Wales History Teachers Association State Conference at Sydney University titled ‘Settler Memory of Contact History - Remembering Frontier Violence’. Ryan’s other research fields include the Presidency of JFK and his administration’s policies in Vietnam. In 2016 he presented a paper to the Association of Independent Schools History Extension Conference (Sydney, Australia) titled ‘Pay any Price, Bear any Burden? JFK and Vietnam’.