Rate My Professor Ann Genovese

She earned her arts and law degrees from the University of Adelaide and a PhD in history from the University of Melbourne, with her doctoral work titled The Battered Body (1998). Genovese joined Melbourne Law School in 2006 and has since published several influential books, including Rights and Redemption: History, Law, Indigenous People (2008, co-authored with Ann Curthoys and Alexander Reilly), Sovereignty: Frontiers of Possibility (2013, co-authored with Julie Evans, Patrick Wolfe, and Alexander Reilly), Australian Critical Decisions: Remembering the Koowarta and Tasmanian Dam Case (2017), The Court as Archive (2019, co-edited with Kim Rubenstein and Trish Luker), and Feminist Jurisography: Law, History, Writing (2022). In addition to her research, she has served on numerous committees, including the JD Selection Committee (2016-2023), Reconciliation and Recognition Committee (2018-2020), Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Heritage Oversight Committee (2021-2024), as Chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee (2022-2025), Scholarships Committee (2024-), and Graduate Research Committee (2025-). Her work fosters collaborations on topics including Indigenous-non-Indigenous relations, Australian archival ethics, and feminist and queer jurisprudence and history.