Lorenzo Veracini teaches history and politics at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne. His research focuses on the comparative history of colonial systems and on settler colonialism. He has authored Israel and Settler Society (2006), Settler Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview (2010), and The Settler Colonial Present (2015), co-edited The Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism (2016), and is Founding Editor of Settler Colonial Studies.