'Associate Professor Ford's research centres on ideas and practices of order in the post-1763 British Empire and the early national United States.
'Her prize-winning first book, Settler Sovereignty, explains how and why North American and Australasian settler polities defined their sovereignty against indigenous customary law after 1800.
'Lisa is has worked on two ARC-funded book projects examining legal change in the early nineteenth-century British Empire. The first (which she is writing with Professor Lauren Benton) is a study of global order as it was conceived by colonists and administrators after 1783. The second explores constitutive conflicts about civil and military order in British colonies from 1764 to 1840.
'Lisa received the 2012 Max Crawford Award, recognising "outstanding achievement in the humanities by young Australian scholars... whose publications contribute towards an understanding of their discipline by the general public."' [author's personal statement]
