Dr Nicholas Pitt

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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 | 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

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

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'

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