Rebe Taylor
Australian historian and author
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Rebe Taylor is an English-born Australian historian and author specialising in southeast Australian indigenous peoples and European settlement.
Rebe Taylor | |
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| Born | London, England |
| Occupation | Author, historian |
| Education | University of Melbourne Australian National University |
| Genre | History |
| Subject | Southeast Australian indigenous peoples and European settlements |
| Notable works | Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search for Human Antiquity |
Early life
Taylor was born in London and came to live in Adelaide, South Australia with her family at the age of five. As a child she had several film roles, including in For the Term of His Natural Life (1983)[1] and the Scott Hicks film, Sebastian and the Sparrow (1988).[2]
Career
Taylor studied for her MA in history at the University of Melbourne, graduating in 1996. She completed her PhD at the Australian National University in 2004.[3]
In 2015 she was awarded the inaugural Coral Thomas Fellowship by the State Library of New South Wales. At the end of her two-year term she gave the inaugural Coral Thomas Lecture titled "The untold story of the Wedge Collection" on John Helder Wedge.[4]
In April 2018 she became Senior Research Fellow at the College of Arts, Law and Education at the University of Tasmania.[3]
Awards
- Winner, Non-Fiction Award at the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, 2004, for Unearthed: The Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island[5]
- Winner, University of Southern Queensland History Book Award at the 2017 Queensland Literary Awards, for Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search for Human Antiquity[6]
- Winner, Tasmania Book Prize, Tasmanian Premier's Literary Prizes, 2017, for Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search for Human Antiquity[7]
- Winner, Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History, 2018, for Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search for Human Antiquity[8]
Works
- Taylor, Rebe (2002), Unearthed : the Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island, Wakefield, ISBN 978-1-86254-552-6
- Taylor, Rebe (2017), Into the heart of Tasmania : a search for human antiquity, Melbourne University Publishing Limited, ISBN 978-0-522-86796-1
