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Dr Nicholas Pitt

Dr Nicholas Pitt

Post-Doc Fellow
Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of Humanities & Languages

Nick is a historian and archaeologist who focuses on the human and more-than-human networks shaped by British colonisation and empire, specialising on eastern Australia during the first half of the nineteenth century. He has also published about twentieth-century Russian migration to Australia.

(headshot photo, Joy M Lai)
E-mail
n.pitt@unsw.edu.au
Location
Room 336 Morven Brown Building
  • Book Chapters | 2024
    Pitt N, 2024, 'Evgeniia Kazanskaia/Shirinskaia: Community Journalism as Anti-Communist Action', in Fitzpatrick S; Deery P (ed.), Russians in Cold War Australia, Lexington Books, pp. 177 - 204, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/unsw/reader.action?docID=31033958&ppg=194
  • Journal articles | 2026
    Pitt N; D’Gluyas C, 2026, 'Mapping People, Labor, and Movement in the First Decades (1788–1825) of Colonial Parramatta, Australia, with Historical Spatial Data Infrastructure', International Journal of Historical Archaeology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10761-025-00816-3
    Journal articles | 2025
    Pitt N, 2025, 'Smallpox on the Limits of Location: The Politics of Diagnosis in New South Wales, 1830–34', Australian Historical Studies, ahead-of-print, pp. 1 - 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2025.2551509
    Journal articles | 2024
    PITT N, 2024, 'Meat, Livestock and the Colonial Project in 1830s and 1840s Australia: The Frontier, the City and the Colonial Imagination', Environment and History, pp. 1 - 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/whpeh.63861480327331
    Journal articles | 2019
    Pitt N, 2019, 'Clay and ‘civilisation’ - imperial ideas and colonial industry in sydney, 1788-1823', History Australia, 16, pp. 375 - 398, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2019.1588749
  • Preprints | 2025
    Nitschke M; Williams A; Ingrey S; Griffiths B; Pitt N; Russell L; Ulm S; Beller K; Bird M; Fatima S; McNiven I; Saltre F; Bashford A; Wilson C; Bradshaw C, 2025, Stochastic models indicate rapid smallpox spread and mass mortality of Indigenous Australians after colonial exposure, http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-5683492/v1
    Other | 2025
    Pitt N, 2025, Mapping smallpox cases and vaccination efforts in New South Wales, 1830 to 1834: Supporting material for the article, ‘Smallpox on the limits of location: the politics of diagnosis in New South Wales, 1830-34’, http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.29881058
    Theses / Dissertations | 2024
    Pitt N, 2024, Settlers and the city: the colonising entanglements of Sydney, its settlers, and their world, 1830-50, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/30102
    Preprints | 2024
    Williams A; Tobler R; Griffiths B; Ulm S; Nitschke M; Bird M; Ingrey S; Saltré F; Beller K; McNiven I; Pitt N; Russell L; Wilson C; Bradshaw C, 2024, Large size of the Australian Indigenous population prior to its massive decline following European invasion, http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-5127915/v1
    Conference Presentations | 2019
    Pitt N, 2019, 'Non-government and refugee involvement in late 1950s resettlement to Australia - the case of Russians from China and the World Council of Churches', presented at Australian Historical Association 2019 - Local Communities, Global Networks, Toowoomba, 08 July 2019 - 12 July 2019, https://www.usq.edu.au/events/2019/07/local-communities-global-networks
    Conference Presentations | 2019
    Pitt N, 2019, 'The promise of archaeological heritage for history - reframing and reusing data generated by non-university experts', presented at A&SS HDR Conference, UNSW Sydney, Colombo Theatres, UNSW Sydney, 14 August 2019, https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/2019-ass-hdr-student-conference-new-ideas-and-their-implementation-in-arts-and-social-sciences-tickets-60386808570

Merewether Fellowship 2025, State Library of NSW for the project 'Benevolent Cattle? A more-than-human history of the Hawkesbury Benevolent Society and the place of benevolence in the colonial project of NSW'