Kate Fullagar

 

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About Kate

Kate Fullagar is an award-winning historian, based in Canberra, Australia. She has published widely on the history of the eighteenth-century world, with a focus on the British Empire, the Pacific Islands, and Native America. She earned her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley and is currently a professor in the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Australian Catholic University. Kate is also a supporter of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, a movement to introduce an Indigenous Voice to the Australian Parliament. She has written on the implications for historians of the Uluru Statement, which can be found below.

Her last book was The Warrior, the Voyager and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire (Yale University Press, 2020), which won the Douglas Stewart Literary Prize for Non-Fiction, the NSW Premier’s Prize for General History, and was shortlisted for the James Tait Prize for Biography. Her new work turns to the history of her own country for the first time, unravelling the entangled lives of the first British governor in Australian lands, Arthur Phillip, and the most significant Aboriginal negotiator with the colony, Bennelong. Phillip and Bennelong tells the story of their relationship entirely backwards, and has just been acquired by Simon & Schuster Australia.

Kate lives with the historian Iain McCalman, their laid-back son Rohan, and their very needy shoodle Bonnie. You can discover some of Kate’s public and academic writings at her website katefullagar.com or follow her on twitter @kfullagar.

You can find some of Kate’s work below.