Shino Konishi

Biography

Shino Konishi is a Yawuru historian and Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and School of Indigenous Studies at the University of Western Australia. Her research interests include histories of exploration, cross-cultural encounter, and representations of Indigenous masculinity and labour. Her current work explores early collecting practices in Western Australia, imperial travellers’ observations of Indigenous peoples in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, and methodological approaches to Indigenous biography.

She is the author of The Aboriginal Male in the Enlightenment World (2012), which was short-listed for the NSW Premier’s Australian History Prize, and The Lives and Legacies of a Carceral Island: A Biographical History of Wadjemup/Rottnest Island (2022) with Ann Curthoys and Alexandra Ludewig which won the Margaret Medcalf Award. From 2010 to 2014 she was the editor of Aboriginal History, and she is now editing a volume on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander biographies in collaboration with the Australian Dictionary of Biography.