Prof Kate Fullagar
Professor Kate Fullagar
SENIOR ASSOCIATE
Kate Fullagar is a historian of the eighteenth-century world, particularly the British empire and the many Indigenous societies it encountered. Her interests in comparative Indigenous history focus on the Pacific, Native America, and Aboriginal Australia. She has strong interests too in visual history, anthropological history, and experimental uses of biography for history. Her latest book is Bennelong & Phillip: A History Unravelled with trade publisher Simon & Schuster, 2023. She is also the author of the award-winning The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire (New Haven, 2020) and The Savage Visit (Berkeley, 2012); the editor of The Atlantic World in the Antipodes: Effects and Transformations since the Eighteenth Century (Newcastle, 2012); and co-editor with Michael McDonnell of Facing Empire: Indigenous Experiences in a Revolutionary Age(Baltimore, 2018). She is Lead Chief Investigator of an ARC Linkage project with the National Portrait Gallery called Facing New Worlds.
Kate is currently co-editor of the Australian Historical Association’s journal, History Australia, which she has helped edit for more than five years. Before academia she worked in publishing—for various academic journals as well as for the former literature, history, and music departments of Oxford University Press in Oxford, UK.
She has held academic fellowships at the University of York (as a British Academy Fellow), Duke University (at the John Hope Franklin Centrer for the Humanities), Yale University (as a Lewis Walpole Library Fellow), and Princeton (as a Humanities Council Fellow). She was made a Fellow of the Australian Academy for the Humanities in 2023. She was also a co-author on a successful Mellon Foundation grant in 2009. Kate is currently serving on the College of Expert for the Australian Research Council under an individual contract. She has held positions in universities senates and departments, attending especially to Higher Degree Research matters and Early Career Mentoring.