Emeritus Professor Paul Turnbull is a cultural historian with expertise in the use of information technologies in historical research and online publication of its outcomes. He is internationally known for his research on the collecting and uses of the bodily remains of Indigenous peoples in the late 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. He has an international reputation in digital humanities. Professor Turnbull was Professor of History at James Cook University from 1990 to 2002, Professor of History and Head of the School of Arts, Media and Culture at Griffith University from 2004 to 2009, Professor of e-History at the University of Queensland from 2009 to 2014, and Professor of Digital Humanities and History at the University of Tasmania from 2014 to 2017.