Amanda Nettelbeck

Professor Amanda Nettelbeck is a leading scholar in settler colonial history at the University of Adelaide, affiliated with the School of Humanities within the Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics. She holds the Chair of the Editorial Board for Australian Historical Studies and has held prestigious visiting roles at University College Dublin and the University of Tokyo.

Her research focuses on race, colonial governance, Indigenous legal relations, and frontier conflict legacies. Key publications include Indigenous Rights and Colonial Subjecthood (2019), awarded the 2020 Legal History Prize, and forthcoming Unsettled Subjects (2025).

Award-winning grants include ARC funding for projects like 'Reconciling with the Frontier' (2020–23) and 'Envisioning Australian Citizenship' (2020–23). She collaborates with institutions like the State Library of South Australia and History Trust SA on public colonial history resources.

Teaching expertise includes courses on colonial law (Protecting the Peace) and modern violence history. Supervision areas span Australian colonial history, Indigenous-settler relations, and historical memory studies.