Dr Meg Foster (FRHistS) is an award-winning historian of banditry, settler colonial and public history who specialises in Australian bushranging.

Meg's current research project explores what diverse colonial bushrangers can tell us about current attitudes to crime and policing. She is an intersectional historian who has experience working across race, class and gender histories as well as imperial, colonial, ethnographic and public histories.

Meg has published widely, contributing articles to Law and History Review, Rethinking History, History Compass and Public History Review as well as History Australia and Australian Historical Studies, where her most recent piece won the Aboriginal History Award from the History Council of New South Wales. Meg has also contributed book chapters to publications by Routledge, Bloomsbury Academic and Australian Scholarly Publishing.

Meg received a prestigious ABC Top 5 Humanities Media Residency to develop her media skills with Australia's national public broadcaster, and created a podcast for ABC Radio National's Rewind program as a result. Combined with tv, radio and podcast appearances, reviews, newspaper articles, blog posts, and artistic collaborations, Meg has a breadth of experience engaging academic and public audiences, and a passion for making connections between history and the contemporary world. 

Her first book, Boundary Crossers: the hidden history of Australia's other bushrangers, was published with NewSouth (University of New South Wales Press) in 2022. This book was shortlisted for the Magarey Medal in Biography and longlisted for the British Academy Book Prize in Global Cultural Understanding and the Davitt Award in non-fiction crime writing. The following year, Meg was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK) in recognition of her contribution to History.