Jane Carey teaches history at the University of Wollongong, where she was a founding co-director of the Centre for Colonial and Settler Studies. She has published widely on Australian history, British colonial history, Indigenous history and women's history. The editor of numerous collections, including Indigenous Networks (2014) and Colonial Formations (2021), she has held a Monash Fellowship at Monash University and an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Melbourne.