Libby Connors
Elizabeth Louise Alice Connors (born 1960) is Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern Queensland.
Libby Connors | |
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| Born | 1960 (age 60–61) |
| Awards | Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance (2015) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Queensland (BA [Hons], PhD) |
| Thesis | The "Birth of the Prison" and the Death of Convictism: The Operation of the Law in Pre-separation Queensland 1839 to 1859 (1990) |
| Doctoral advisor | Kay Saunders |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | Legal history Environmental history Colonial history |
| Institutions | University of Southern Queensland |
| Notable works | Warrior (2015) |
In 2015 Connors received the Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance for Warrior: A Legendary Leader's Dramatic Life and Violent Death on the Colonial Frontier.[1] The book followed Dalla lawman Dundalli from his life in southeast Queensland to his execution outside Brisbane gaol on 5 January 1855.[2]
References
- Wilson, Rohan (23 May 2015). "Aborigines and Brisbane settlers at war in Libby Connors' book". The Australian.
- Connors, Libby (2005). "Dundalli (1820–1855)". Australian Dictionary of Biography.
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