Lyndall Ryan is an Australia

Australia

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n academic. She has held positions in Australian Studies and Women's Studies

Women's studies

Women's studies, also known as feminist studies, is an interdisciplinary academic field which explores politics, society and history from an intersectional, multicultural women's perspective...

 at Griffith University

Griffith University

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 and Flinders University

Flinders University

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 and is currently Foundation Professor

Professor

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 of Australian Studies and Head of School of Humanities at the University of Newcastle

University of Newcastle, Australia

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. She completed a PhD

PHD

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 at Macquarie University

Macquarie University

Macquarie University is an Australian public teaching and research university located in Sydney, with its main campus situated in Macquarie Park. Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third university to be established in the metropolitan area of Sydney...

 in 1975, her thesis was titled "Aborigines in Tasmania, 1800-1974 and their problems with the Europeans".

Her book The Aboriginal Tasmanians, first published in 1981 presented a critical interpretation the early history of relations between Tasmanian Aborigines

Tasmanian Aborigines

The Tasmanian Aborigines were the indigenous people of the island state of Tasmania, Australia. Before British colonisation in 1803, there were an estimated 3,000–15,000 Parlevar. A number of historians point to introduced disease as the major cause of the destruction of the full-blooded...

 and white settlers in Tasmania

Tasmania

Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...

. This work was later attacked by Keith Windschuttle

Keith Windschuttle

Keith Windschuttle is an Australian writer, historian, and ABC board member, who has authored several books from the 1970s onwards. These include Unemployment, , which analysed the economic causes and social consequences of unemployment in Australia and advocated a socialist response; The Media: a...

, thus drawing her into the History wars

History wars

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.

Publications

• The Aboriginal Tasmanians, 1981, ISBN 0-7022-1903-7 (pbk) ISBN 0-7022-1544-9 and 2nd ed, 1996, ISBN 1-86373-965-3

Joint

• Susan Magarey
  Susan Magarey
  Professor Susan Margaret Magarey AM, FASSA, is an Australian historian and author, most notable for her historic works and biographies of Australian women.-Education:English Literature and History:*BA - University of Adelaide*DipEd - Adelaide...
  
  and Lyndall Ryan, Bibliography of Australian women's history, 1990.
• Susan Sheridan with Barbara Baird, Kate Borrett and Lyndall Ryan, Who was that woman?: the Australian Women's Weekly in the postwar years, 2001 ISBN 0-86840-618-X

External links

• Lyndall Ryan introduction at the Australian Public Intellectual Network
• Professor Lyndall Ryan page at the University of Newcastle
• Lyndall Ryan, Australian Women Biographical entry
• Keith Windschuttle, "Postmodernism and the Fabrication of Aboriginal History"