Hilary M. Carey

Hilary M. Carey is Professor of History at the University of Newcastle, NSW. Her research focuses on religious history and the history of mentalities in medieval Europe and colonial Australia. From 1996–2000 she was editor of the Journal of Religious History for which she edited special issues on Colonialist Representations of Indigenous Religion (1998), Millennium (2000) and Religion and Memory (2007). She has written Courting Disaster (1992) and Believing in Australia (1996) and edited Empires of Religion, a collection of essays on religion and imperialism which will be published by Palgrave in November 2008. In 2005 and 2006 she was Keith Cameron Professor of Australian History at University College Dublin. She is the current Vice President of the Religious History Society, which is affiliated with the AHA.