Nikita Vanderbyl

Nikita Vanderbyl is an historian of nineteenth-century Aboriginal art and colonial history. Her research focuses on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung art and history in the context of colonial cultures of collection and display. After publishing with Alan Lester in History Workshop Journal ‘The Restructuring of the British Empire and the Colonization of Australia, 1832-8’ (2020), she has joined the Western Australian Legacies of British Slavery project. Nikita’s research has appeared in Aboriginal History, The La Trobe Journal, Agora and on the Conversation. Most recently she has published with Professor Barry Judd on Indigenous masculinities. She teaches history part time at La Trobe University in Mildura and she lives on unceded Barkindji Country in southern New South Wales.