Helen Bethea Gardner

Helen Bethea Gardner is a lecturer in World History and Pacific History at the School of History, Heritage and Society in the Faculty of Arts at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. In 2012 she became the external editor of the Journal of Pacific History and is a former secretary of the Australian Association for the Advancement of Pacific Studies. Her most recent publication, Southern Anthropology - a History of Fison and Howitt's 'Kamilaroi and Kurnai' (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015) co-authored with anthropologist Patrick McConvell, explores the conception and writing of a nineteenth-century book of Australian anthropology.