Sarah Maddison is Professor of Politics in the School of Social and Political Sciences, and Director of the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne. Sarah is particularly interested in work that helps reconceptualise political relationships between First Nations and the Australian settler state, including critical examinations of a range of relevant public policies. Sarah has published widely in international journals and is the author or editor of nine books including, most recently, The Colonial Fantasy: Why white Australia can’t solve black problems. Her other books in the field include The Limits of Settler Colonial Reconciliation (2016), Conflict Transformation and Reconciliation (2015), Beyond White Guilt (2011), Unsettling the Settler State (2011), and Black Politics (2009). Sarah has led numerous research projects and was an Australian Research Council Future Fellow for 2011-14, undertaking a project that examined reconciliation in Australia, South Africa, Northern Ireland, and Guatemala.