Paul Sendziuk teaches Australian history at the University of Adelaide. He is an experienced oral historian, and has expertise in the histories of immigration, disease and public health. His first book, Learning to Trust: Australian Responses to AIDS (2003), was shortlisted for the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission’s Human Rights Award for Non-fiction. His most recent book, co-authored with Robert Reynolds and Shirleene Robinson, In the Eye of the Storm: Volunteers and Australia’s Response to the HIV/AIDS Crisis (2021), was the joint winner of Oral History Australia’s Book Award.