Lyndall Ryan (1943 - ) is an Australian academic. She has held positions in Australian Studies and Women's Studies at Griffith University and Flinders University and is currently Foundation Professor of Australian Studies and Head of School of Humanities at the University of Newcastle. She completed a PhD at Macquarie University in 1975, her thesis was titled "Aborigines in Tasmania, 1800-1974 and their problems with the Europeans".

Her book The Aboriginal Tasmanians, first published in 1981 presented a critical interpretation the early history of relations between Tasmanian Aborigines and white settlers in Tasmania. This work was later attacked by Keith Windschuttle, thus drawing her into the History wars.

Publications

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• The Aboriginal Tasmanians, 1981, ISBN 0702219037 (pbk) ISBN 0702215449 and 2nd ed, 1996, ISBN 1863739653

Joint

• Susan Magarey and Lyndall Ryan, Bibliography of Australian women's history, 1990.
• Susan Sheridan with Barbara Baird, Kate Borrett and Lyndall Ryan, Who was that woman?: the

Australian Women's Weekly in the postwar years, 2001 ISBN 086840618X

External links

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• Lyndall Ryan introduction at the Australian Public Intellectual Network
• Professor Lyndall Ryan page at the University of Newcastle
• Lyndall Ryan, Australian Women Biographical entry

Australian academics | Living people | Historians