Laura Rademaker is an ARC DECRA research fellow. Her current project looks at the history of Indigenous self-determination in Australia. She is the author of Found in Translation: Many Meanings on a North Australian Mission (University of Hawai’i Press, 2018) on language and cross-cultural exchange at Christian missions to Aboriginal people, awarded the 2020 Hancock Prize. Her work explores the possibilities of ‘cross-culturalising’ history, interdisciplinary histories as well as oral history and memory. She is interested in religion, gender, secularisation, and 'deep history'. She is an editor of History Australia and monographs editor for Aboriginal history Monographs.

PhB (Australian National University); PhD (Australian National University)

Indigenous history, ‘deep’ history, gender and women’s history, religious history, secularisation, oral history and memory, language and cross-cultural encounters, Christian missions.