Heather Dalton is an Honorary Fellow in the School of Historical & Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne. She is the author of Merchants and Explorers: Roger Barlow, Sebastian Cabot and Networks of Atlantic Exchange, 1500 - 1560 (2016) and ’A Sulphur-crested Cockatoo in fifteenth century Mantua: Rethinking symbols of sanctity and patterns of trade’, Renaissance Studies 28/5 (2014), which won the ANZAMEMS’ inaugural Philippa Maddern Early Career Researcher Publication Prize in 2016.