Ben Silverstein researches in colonial and Indigenous histories, with a focus on Australia. His work engages questions of race and settler colonialism as well as contests over sovereignties and colonial government. His first book, titled Governing Natives: Indirect Rule and Settler Colonialism in Australia’s North (Manchester University Press, 2019), explored Australian articulations of indirect rule as a mode of governing Aboriginal people in the interwar period. He is a co-editor of Aboriginal History.

BA (Hons), LLB (Hons) (Melbourne), PhD (La Trobe)

Indigenous histories, Deep history, settler colonialism, Australian history, histories of race.