Laura Rademaker is an ARC DECRA research fellow at the Australian National University. Her current project looks at the history of Indigenous self-determination in Australia. She is the author of Found in Translation: Many Meanings on a North Australian Mission (2018) on language and cross-cultural exchange at Christian missions to Aboriginal people, awarded the 2020 Hancock Prize. Her work explores the possibilities of ‘cross-culturalising’ history, interdisciplinary histories as well as oral history and memory. She is interested in religion, gender, secularisation, and ‘deep history’.