Picturing Citizenship Images, Belonging and Colonial Legacies in the Settler Nation

Fay Anderson is an Associate Professor in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University, Australia. She has published widely on Australian and journalism history, news photography, war, genocide, trauma, migration and crime. Her latest book is The Holocaust and Australian Journalism: Reporting and Reckoning (2024).

Jane Lydon is the Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History at the University of Western Australia. Her books include Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy across the British Empire (2020) and Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire (2016) which explores the role of photography in shaping ideas about race and difference from the 1840s to the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights.

Melissa Miles is Professor of Art History at Monash University, Australia. Her books include Photography, Truth and Reconciliation, Pacific Exposures: Photography and the Australia-Japan Relationship (with Robin Gerster) and The Language of Light and Dark, which examines the productive role of visual culture in public life, politics and intercultural relations.

Amanda Nettelbeck is Professor of History in the Institute of Humanities & Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University. Her last book Indigenous Rights and Colonial Subjecthood (2019) won the 2020 ANZLHS Legal History Prize, and her current book project explores how ideas of colonial citizenship were produced and contested in the 19th century settler empire.