Laura Rademaker is an DECRA research fellow. Her current project looks at the history of Indigenous self-determination in Australia. She is an author of numerous books including Found in Translation: Many Meanings on a North Australian Mission (University of Hawai’i Press, 2018), Tiwi Story: Turning History Downside Up (Newsouth, 2023) and Aboriginal Rock Art and the Telling of History (Cambridge University Press, 2024). 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, monographs editor for Aboriginal history Monographs and secretary of the Religious History Association.

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.