Prof Zoe Laidlaw
Professor in History
School of Historical and Philosophical Studies
53 Scholarly works
3 Projects
HIGHLIGHTS
2026
Journal article
Fifty years since a simple equation described the chaos of biology
DOI: 10.1038/d41586-026-01584-82026
Book
Legacies of British slavery in Australia and New Zealand
DOI: 10.7765/97815261848252026
Book Chapter
Profession and patrimony: Australian colonial governors and British slavery, 1788–1901
2026
Journal article
Introduction: Australian and New Zealand legacies of slavery
2024
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
2026
Journal article
Capital, Agents and Absentees: Port Phillip Pastoralism and the Profits of Slavery
DOI: 10.1080/1031461X.2025.25707232025
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: 10.1080/14490854.2025.24523762022
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.06.2022.01