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'Crystal McKinnon is an Amangu woman from the Yamatji Nation who lives and works on Kulin Nation country. She is a historian and a critical Indigenous studies scholar, who is currently working at RMIT University as a Vice Chancellor’s Indigenous Research Fellow in the Social and Global Studies Centre. Her research has looked at concepts of Indigenous sovereignty, justice and law, and Indigenous social movements, resistance, and protest. Crystal is the co-editor of the Aboriginal History journal, and of History, Power and Text: Cultural Studies and Indigenous Studies (UTS ePress, 2014), and her work has been published in several books and journals, including Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies (2020), and Australian Feminist Law Journal. She is an organizer and member of the Warriors of Aboriginal Resistance (WAR Victoria), sits on the steering committee for the Law and Advocacy Centre for Women, and has previously worked in both the Aboriginal community organization and the community legal center sectors.' (Biography Volume 43, Number 4, 2020)