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Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History, University of Western Australia

Jane Lydon is the Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History at the University of Western Australia. Her books include The Flash of Recognition: Photography and the emergence of Indigenous rights (NewSouth, 2012), which won the 2013 Queensland Literary Awards’ USQ History Book Award. Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire was published in paperback by Bloomsbury in 2017.

Experience

  • –present
    Chair professor, University of Western Australia

Education

  • 2001 
    Australian National University, PhD History/Anthropology