Libby Connors

Elizabeth Louise Alice Connors (born 8 August 1960)^[1] is associate professor of history at the University of Southern Queensland.

Libby Connors
Born	(1960-08-08) 8 August 1960 (age 65)
Awards	Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance (2015)
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Queensland (BA [Hons], PhD)
Thesis	The "Birth of the Prison" and the Death of Convictism: The Operation of the Law in Pre-separation Queensland 1839 to 1859 (1990)
Doctoral advisor	Kay Saunders
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	Legal history Environmental history Colonial history
Institutions	University of Southern Queensland
Notable works	Warrior (2015)

In 1992, Connors co-wrote Australia's Frontline: Remembering the 1939–45 War with Lynette Finch, Kay Saunders and Helen Taylor.

In 1999, Connors published A History of the Australian Environment Movement with co-author Drew Hutton.

In 2015 Connors received the Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance for Warrior: A Legendary Leader's Dramatic Life and Violent Death on the Colonial Frontier.^[2] The book followed Dalla lawman Dundalli from his life in southeast Queensland to his execution outside Brisbane gaol on 5 January 1855.^[3]