Laura has recently been named as one of four recipients of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia’s 2021 Paul Bourke Awards for Early Career Research. The ASSA acknowledges Laura as ‘a leading historian of Indigenous Australia, with an outstanding research record encompassing religious, gender and deep history.’ They recognise her distinctive historical practice, based on the extensive use of oral history and detailed archival research, and in close collaboration with Indigenous communities.

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