Shino Konishi lectured in Indigenous Australian studies and history at the Koori Centre, University of Sydney and was a research fellow at the Australian Centre for Indigenous History, Australian National Univeristy, Australian Capital Territory. Her research interests include 'histories of race, the body, and gender with a particular focus on the eighteenth century exploration of Australia and cross-cultural encounters between Aboriginal peoples and Europeans.'
In 2017 she became a member of the Indigenous Australian Dictionary of Biography working party.
Sources: Transgressions: Critical Australian Indigenous Histories (2007): x; Inside Story (April, 2011): 24.