Grace Karskens
Grace Karskens is Professor of History at the University of New South Wales and the author of People of the River.
BottomGrace Karskens is Professor Emerita at the University of New South Wales. She is a leading authority on early colonial Australia and works in cross-cultural and environmental history. Grace’s books include The Colony: A History of Early Sydney which won the 2010 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction and People of the River: Lost Worlds of Early Australia, was the co-winner of the 2021 Ernest Scott Prize. Grace began her career as a public historian and has a lifelong commitment to bringing good history to wide audiences. She has been an active contributor to several significant cultural organisations, including Sydney Living Museums, the State Library of New South Wales, and the online Dictionary of Sydney project. Grace is working with Darug researchers, artists, and educators on The Real Secret River: Dyarubbin, a project restoring Aboriginal placenames to Dyarubbin, the Hawkesbury River.