Libby Connors | |
Birth Date: | 8 August 1960 |
Awards: | Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance (2015) |
Alma Mater: | University of Queensland (BA [Hons], PhD) |
Thesis Title: | The "Birth of the Prison" and the Death of Convictism: The Operation of the Law in Pre-separation Queensland 1839 to 1859 |
Thesis Url: | https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:185630 |
Thesis Year: | 1990 |
Doctoral Advisor: | Kay Saunders |
Discipline: | History |
Sub Discipline: | Legal history Environmental history Colonial history |
Workplaces: | University of Southern Queensland |
Notable Works: | Warrior (2015) |
Elizabeth Louise Alice Connors (born 8 August 1960)[1] is Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern Queensland.
In 1992, Connors co-wrote Australia's Frontline: Remembering the 1939–45 War with Lynette Finch, Kay Saunders and Helen Taylor.
In 1999, Connors published A History of the Australian Environment Movement with co-author Drew Hutton.
In 2015 Connors received the Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance for Warrior: A Legendary Leader's Dramatic Life and Violent Death on the Colonial Frontier.[2] The book followed Dalla lawman Dundalli from his life in southeast Queensland to his execution outside Brisbane gaol on 5 January 1855.[3]