Lyndall Ryan is Conjoint Professor of History in the Centre for the History of Violence at the University of Newcastle. Her research focuses on frontier violence in the British Empire in the nineteenth century and its aftermath. Her books include Tasmanian Aborigines: A history since 1803 (2012) and Theatres of Violence, edited with Philip G Dwyer (2012). In 2017 she launched an interactive online map of colonial frontier massacres across Australia.