Heather Goodall
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| workplaces = University of Technology Sydney
Macquarie University
| alma_mater = University of Sydney
| thesis_title = A History of Aboriginal Communities in New South Wales, 1909–1939
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| thesis_year = 1982
| doctoral_advisor = Heather Radi
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| main_interests = Indigenous peoples
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| awards = New South Wales Premier's Australian History Prize (1997)
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Heather Goodall is an Australian academic and historian. She is Emeritus Professor at the University of Technology Sydney. Her research and writing focuses on Indigenous and environmental history and intercolonial networks.
Education
Goodall graduated from the University of Sydney in 1975 and was awarded the University Medal in History. She received a PhD from the same university in 1982 for her thesis "A History of Aboriginal Communities in New South Wales, 1909–1939".{{cite web|last=Harrison|first=Sharon M.|title=Goodall, Heather|url=https://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0573b.htm|publisher=The Encyclopedia of Women & Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia|year=2013|access-date=20 September 2020}}{{Citation|author1=Goodall|first=Heather|title=A history of Aboriginal communities in New South Wales, 1909–1939|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/3892755|publication-date=1982|publisher=University of Sydney|access-date=20 September 2020}}
Awards and recognition
Goodall won the inaugural Australian History Prize at the New South Wales Premier's History Awards in 1997 for Invasion to Embassy and a Rona Tranby Award in 1998. She won the Magarey Medal for biography in 2005 for Isabel Flick, co-written by the subject, Isabel Flick.{{Cite web|date=3 July 2005|title=Woman awarded Magarey Medal|url=https://www.adelaide.edu.au/news/news5701.html|access-date=2020-09-19|website=University of Adelaide|language=en}}
Goodall was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2007.{{Cite web|title=Academy Fellow: Professor Heather Goodall|url=https://socialsciences.org.au/academy-fellow/?sId=0032v000033l9R6AAI|access-date=2020-09-19|website=Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia|language=en-US}} She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales.{{Cite web|title=Fellows – G|url=https://www.royalsoc.org.au/about-us/fellows#ref-G|access-date=2020-09-19|website=The Royal Society of NSW|archive-date=27 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190927051802/https://royalsoc.org.au/about-us/fellows#ref-G|url-status=dead}}
Rivers and Resilience was shortlisted for the Community and Regional History Prize at the New South Wales Premier's History Awards in 2010.
Goodall was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2024 King's Birthday Honours for "significant service to tertiary education, particularly social science, and to the Indigenous community".{{Cite web |title=Professor Emertia Heather Goodall |url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/3026451 |access-date=2024-06-10 |website=Australian Honours Search Facility}}
Selected works
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- Invasion to Embassy: Land in Aboriginal politics in New South Wales, 1770–1972, Allen & Unwin with Black Books, 1996 {{ISBN|1864481498|}}
- Isabel Flick: The Many Lives of an Extraordinary Aboriginal Woman, co-written by Isabel Flick, Allen & Unwin, 2004 {{ISBN|9781741141238|}}
- Rivers and Resilience: Aboriginal people on Sydney's Georges River, co-written by Allison Cadzow, UNSW Press, 2009 {{ISBN|9781921410741|}}
- Beyond Borders: Indians, Australians and the Indonesian Revolution, 1939 to 1950, Amsterdam University Press, 2018 {{ISBN|9789462981454|}}
- Georges River Blues: Swamps, Mangroves and Resident Action, 1945–1980, ANU Press, 2022 {{ISBN|9781760464622}}
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Category:20th-century Australian historians
Category:Members of the Order of Australia
Category:Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of New South Wales
Category:University of Sydney alumni
Category:Academic staff of the University of Technology Sydney
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:21st-century Australian historians
Category:Australian women historians
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