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Kate Fullagar is a historian of the eighteenth-century world, particularly the British Empire and the many Indigenous societies it encountered. Her interest in comparative indigenous history focuses on the eastern Pacific (Polynesia), the American southeast (esp. Cherokees), and the Eora of today's Australia.
She is the author of The Savage Visit (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012), which traces the dramatic rise and surprising fall of popular British fascination for indigenous visitors through the eighteenth century. Pursuing similar themes, she is also the editor of The Atlantic World in the Antipodes: Effects and Transformations since the Eighteenth Century (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012), with chapters by Alison Bashford, Iain McCalman, Simon Schaffer, Margaret Jolly, Sheila Fitzpatrick, Damon Salesa, and several of the other fabulous scholars who assembled for Sydney's Sawyer Seminar Series. In 2018 she published with prize-winning historian Michael McDonnell an edited collection called Facing Empire: Indigenous Experiences in a Revolutionary Age (Johns Hopkins University Press, Oct. 2018). It includes chapters by Colin Calloway, Bill Gammage, Sujit Sivasundarum, Tony Ballantyne, Daniel Richter, and many others. In 2020 she publishes her second monograph, The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist, with Yale University Press. It is about the unlikely eighteenth-century story of a Cherokee warrior called Ostenaco, a Ra'iatean voyager called Mai, and the British artist, Joshua Reynolds, who painted them both.
Kate has held visiting fellowships at the University of York (as a British Academy Fellow); Duke University (at the John Hope Franklin Center for the Humanities); Yale University (as a Lewis Walpole Library Travelling Fellow), and Princeton Univesity (Humanities Council).
Kate is the Lead Chief Investigator on an ARC Linkage Project with the National Portrait Gallery – see https://facingnewworlds.org/ for further details. For her own personal website, see katefullagar.com
Research interests
Eighteenth-Century British History, especially popular and artistic culture
Eighteenth-Century Pacific History, especially Polynesia
Eighteenth-Century Australian History, especially Bennelong
Early Atlantic History, especially southeastern North AmericaComparative Indigenous History
Eighteenth-Century Pacific History, especially Polynesia
Eighteenth-Century Australian History, especially Bennelong
Early Atlantic History, especially southeastern North AmericaComparative Indigenous History
Teaching
MHIS1001 Religion, Trade, and Empire in the Pre-Modern World
MHIS2021 The Age of Revolution: Europe from the Reign of Terror to the First World War
MHIS2001 The History of Human Rights
MHIS7000 Introduction to Modern Historiography
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
… → 2005
MA, University of California, Berkeley
… → 2001
BA (Hons), Australian National University
… → 1997
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Projects
ASSA: Maohi Voyagers to France and Australia, 1760s-1860s
Fullagar, K. & Lacarde, V.
16/01/20 → 16/01/22
Project: Other
Facing New Worlds: Comparative Histories of Australasia and North America
Fullagar, K., McDonnell, M. A., Hansen, D., Gilmour, J. & Trumble, A.
13/11/17 → …
Project: Research
Facing Empire: Indigenous Histories in Comparative Perspective,1760-1820
1/01/13 → 31/12/13
Project: Research
Research Outputs
From the editors
Fullagar, K., Arrow, M. & Boucher, L., 2020, In : History Australia. 17, 1, p. 3-4 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial
Voyagers from the Havai‘i Diaspora: Polynesian Mobility, 1760s-1860s
Fullagar, K., 2020, (Accepted/In press) The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Global History. Russell, L. & McGrath, A. (eds.). London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis GroupResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Britannia's Auxiliaries: Continental Europeans and the British Empire, 1740–1800
Fullagar, K., Oct 2019, In : American Historical Review. 124, 4, p. 1521-1522 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article/Exhibition review
Facing New Worlds
Fullagar, K., 2019, State Library of NSW Magazine, 12, 1, p. 20-23 4 p.Research output: Contribution to Newspaper/Magazine/Website › Article
From the editors
Boucher, L., Arrow, M. & Fullagar, K., 3 Jul 2019, In : History Australia. 16, 3, p. 435-436 2 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial