Heather Goodall | |
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Awards |
New South Wales Premier's Australian History Prize (1997) Magarey Medal for biography (2005) Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (2007) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Sydney |
Thesis | A History of Aboriginal Communities in New South Wales, 1909–1939 (1982) |
Doctoral advisor | Heather Radi |
Academic work | |
Institutions |
University of Technology Sydney Macquarie University |
Main interests |
Indigenous peoples Environmental history |
Heather Goodall, AM, FRSN, FASSA is an Australian academic and historian. She is Emeritus Professor at the University of Technology Sydney. Her research and writing focuses on Indigenous and environmental history and intercolonial networks.
Goodall graduated from the University of Sydney in 1975 and was awarded the University Medal in History. She received a PhD from the same university in 1982 for her thesis "A History of Aboriginal Communities in New South Wales, 1909–1939". [1] [2]
Goodall won the inaugural Australian History Prize at the New South Wales Premier's History Awards in 1997 for Invasion to Embassy [3] and a Rona Tranby Award in 1998. She won the Magarey Medal for biography in 2005 for Isabel Flick, co-written by the subject, Isabel Flick. [4]
Goodall was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2007. [3] She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales. [5]
Rivers and Resilience was shortlisted for the Community and Regional History Prize at the New South Wales Premier's History Awards in 2010. [3]
Goodall was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2024 King's Birthday Honours for "significant service to tertiary education, particularly social science, and to the Indigenous community". [6]
Heather Goodall | |
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Awards |
New South Wales Premier's Australian History Prize (1997) Magarey Medal for biography (2005) Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (2007) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Sydney |
Thesis | A History of Aboriginal Communities in New South Wales, 1909–1939 (1982) |
Doctoral advisor | Heather Radi |
Academic work | |
Institutions |
University of Technology Sydney Macquarie University |
Main interests |
Indigenous peoples Environmental history |
Heather Goodall, AM, FRSN, FASSA is an Australian academic and historian. She is Emeritus Professor at the University of Technology Sydney. Her research and writing focuses on Indigenous and environmental history and intercolonial networks.
Goodall graduated from the University of Sydney in 1975 and was awarded the University Medal in History. She received a PhD from the same university in 1982 for her thesis "A History of Aboriginal Communities in New South Wales, 1909–1939". [1] [2]
Goodall won the inaugural Australian History Prize at the New South Wales Premier's History Awards in 1997 for Invasion to Embassy [3] and a Rona Tranby Award in 1998. She won the Magarey Medal for biography in 2005 for Isabel Flick, co-written by the subject, Isabel Flick. [4]
Goodall was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2007. [3] She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales. [5]
Rivers and Resilience was shortlisted for the Community and Regional History Prize at the New South Wales Premier's History Awards in 2010. [3]
Goodall was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2024 King's Birthday Honours for "significant service to tertiary education, particularly social science, and to the Indigenous community". [6]