Dr Felicity Jensz is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Cluster of Excellence ‘Religion and Politics’ at the Westfälische Wilhelms‑Universität Münster, Germany and an Honorary Fellow in the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne, where she obtained her PhD. Her research focuses upon the relationships between missionaries, Indigenous peoples and governments in the nineteenth‑century British colonial world. She has an interest in German‑speaking Moravian missionaries and has published papers on this group in Aboriginal history, Journal of the history of collections, and Journal of religious history. Her book Moravian missionaries in the British colony of Victoria, Australia (Brill, 2010) examined the complex tensions between non‑British missionaries and British colonial governance. Current research focuses upon missionary education as well as missionary periodicals in the nineteenth century.

Author email: fjens_01@uni-muenster.de