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)
Australia's Resilience to Recession
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