Elizabeth Louise Alice Connors (born 8 August 1960)[1] is associate professor of history at the University of Southern Queensland.
Libby Connors | |
|---|---|
| Born | 8 August 1960 |
| 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 1992, Connors co-wrote Australia's Frontline: Remembering the 1939–45 War with Lynette Finch, Kay Saunders and Helen Taylor.
In 1999, Connors published A History of the Australian Environment Movement with co-author Drew Hutton.
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.[2] The book followed Dalla lawman Dundalli from his life in southeast Queensland to his execution outside Brisbane gaol on 5 January 1855.[3]
References
edit- ^ South, Val (2007). An Invaluable Life: A Memoir. As told to Ryan, Marie. Brisbane: Marie Ryan. p. 174. ISBN 978-0-646-47155-6.
- ^ 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.