Cirrus@Austlit

' Regina Ganter is the multi-award winning author of The Pearl Shellers of Torres Strait (1994) and Mixed Relations (2006). She has published widely in the field of cross cultural encounters and contributed to a number of broadcasts, museum exhibitions and curriculum materials. She has also produced a web-directory of intercultural encounters between indigenous people and German missionaries in Queensland for the Queensland Sesquicentennial celebrations in 2009 (http://missionaries.griffith.edu.au/). Regina migrated to Australian in 1979 and has taught Australian history and heritage studies in the School of Humanities at Griffith University since 1992. She has been on the national executive of the Australian Historical Association, and gained the inaugural AHA Prize in Australian History in 1992, and the NSW Premier's History Book Award and the Ernest Scott Prize in Australian History in 2007. She is undertook an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship to prepare a website on German missionaries, ethnographers and collectors in Australia.' (Source: The Australian Academy of the Humanities website)