Gillian Cowlishaw studied anthropology at the University of Sydney and has taught at Charles Sturt University, the Australian National University and the University of Sydney. She has held an ARC Professorial Fellowship at UTS. Cowlishaw's ethnographic and historical accounts of the dynamics of race in Australia are based on extended fieldwork in southern Arnhem Land, in Bourke, New South Wales and in western Sydney.
Cowlishaw's The City's Outback was shortlisted for the Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction in the 2009 Victorian Premier's Awards.
Major source: Making Australian History: Perspectives on the Past Since 1788
