Cassandra Pybus

founder, Australian Humanities Review

Cassandra Pybus is an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow at the University of Sydney, and is the founder of the Australian Humanities Review. Pybus has published extensively on Australian, American and Transatlantic history. Her interests span as broadly as Australian social history, colonial history in North America, South East Asia, Africa and Australia, slavery and the history of labor, and the history of Tasmanian Aborigines. She has won numerous awards, most recently the Adelaide Festival Prize for Non Fiction in 2001 for her controversial book The Devil and James McAuley.