Dr Dan Tout is a lecturer in history and sociology at Federation University and an Arena Publications Editor. In 2023, he was an inaugural Visiting Fellow with the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne, where he currently convenes the nationhood stream of the Centre’s Research Strategy. His research focuses on settler colonialism and nationalism in Australia and their impacts on and implications for First Nations peoples. Dan has published widely in a range of highly ranked publications, including Aboriginal History, Australian Historical Studies, Australian Journal of Politics & History, Journal of Australian Studies, Settler Colonial Studies and Thesis Eleven.
Professor Emma-Jaye Gavin, PhD is a Garrwa Aboriginal woman and a Professorial Research Fellow, focusing on Truth-telling, Global Indigenous Politics, and International Relations, with the National Centre for Reconciliation, Truth, and Justice. Professor Gavin holds a Bachelor of Arts, a Masters of Political Science and International Relations, and a Doctorate (PhD) in Indigenous Politics. Her research areas are: Truth-telling, Political Science, International Relations, History, Education, Class Studies, and Indigenous Relations. Professor Gavin is also the Oceania Co-Lead of the Alliance of Working Class Academics, Worldwide (AWCA).
Dr Julia Hurst is an Indigenous historian, gaining her PhD from ANU in 2019. She also holds a Masters of Urban Planning, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne. Julia’s work is informed by her family’s matriarchal (Dharug/Dharawal/Stolen Generations) stories of separation and continuing to reconnect with story, history, family and Country while exploring the ‘many histories’ of story, place, and the ‘in-between’. Julia is currently Lecturer in Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander History at the University of Melbourne, and was until recently Deputy Director of the Australian Centre. She regularly records oral histories with Peter Read for the National Library of Australia and her work has appeared in diverse publications, including for example: Politico, Overland literary journal, the ABC docu-series Makers of Modern Australia, and various academic publications.