Alison Holland is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University, where she specialises in Australian and Indigenous history. Her work focuses on questions of rights and humanitarianism, feminism, race, governance, policy and citizenship in Australian history broadly. Her book, Just Relations. The Story of Mary Bennett's Crusade for Aboriginal Rights (UWA Publishing 2015) was short-listed for the NSW Premier's Australian History prize in 2016.