Victoria Haskins is a lecturer in Australian history at the University of Newcastle. A former curator at the National Museum of Australia, she is a cultural historian utilising a range of sources including material culture and visual representations as well as the traditional archive. Victoria has researched and published widely on the history of gender and race relations in Australia, work that includes a number of articles in historical journals, an edited collection with Fiona Paisley and Anna Cole, Uncommon ground: white women in Aboriginal history, and her 2005 book, One bright spot, on Joan Kingsley-Strack, a white feminist activist for Aboriginal rights. She is particularly interested in the historical roles and representations of white and Indigenous women in settler colonial histories, and her studies of Indigenous domestic service have broadened her research outlook to encompass South-East Asia under British colonial rule, and the United States of America. Victoria is currently writing a book about white and Aboriginal women’s relationships in domestic service throughout Australian history.