Professor Katie Pickles is a leading scholar of feminist and postcolonial history. She has published widely on settler colonialism, exploring themes of gender, empire and national identity in Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada, Australia and Britain. She has published four books, including the recent monograph Heroines in History. Her books have identified elite women as agents of global history and imperialism, and critically examined global archetypes of heroines over time. Katie has contributed to national debates about the environment through the lens of history and decolonisation, including scholarship on the impact of the Canterbury earthquakes.
Royal Society Fellowship: Katie Pickles
