Prof Zoe Laidlaw
Professor in History
School of Historical and Philosophical Studies
50 Scholarly works
3 Projects
HIGHLIGHTS
2026
Journal article
Fifty years since a simple equation described the chaos of biology
DOI: 10.1038/d41586-026-01584-82025
Journal article
The Antipodean Laboratory: Making Colonial Knowledge, 1770–1870, by Anna Johnston
DOI: 10.1093/ehr/ceaf0782025
Journal article
The ethics of university truth-telling
DOI: 10.1080/14490854.2025.24523762025
Journal article
Capital, Agents and Absentees: Port Phillip Pastoralism and the Profits of Slavery
DOI: 10.1080/1031461X.2025.25707232024
Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)
Australian Legacies of British Slavery: Capital, Land and Labour
2020
Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)
Western Australian Legacies of British Slavery
2018
Research Grant
Remaking the British World After 1815
RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS
2022
Journal article
Roundtable: Linking the legacies of British slave-ownership to Australian colonisation
DOI: 10.22459/ajbh.06.2022.092022
Journal article
National biographies and transnational lives: Tracing connections between slavery and settler colonialism
DOI: 10.22459/ajbh.06.2022.072022
Journal article
Introduction [Special Issue of Australian Journal of Biography and History: Writing Slavery into Biography: Australian Legacies of British Slavery]
DOI: 10.22459/AJBH.06.2022.012022
Book Chapter
'Peopling the Country by Unpeopling It': Jeremy Bentham's silences on Indigenous Australia
2021
Book
Protecting the Empire's Humanity: Thomas Hodgkin and British Colonial Activism 1830–1870
DOI: 10.1017/97811081646582021
Book
Protecting the Empire's Humanity Thomas Hodgkin and British Colonial Activism 1830–1870