Kate Bagnall BA Hons PhD
Historian | Hobart, Australia
I’m an Australian social historian who works at the University of Tasmania. My research explores histories of family, migration, citizenship and the law in Australia and New Zealand, with a focus on Chinese Australasian communities. You can view my UTAS profile or read my blog.
Selected publications
- Bagnall, Kate. “Across the Threshold: Chinese Hawkers and White Women in Colonial Australia.” In Mobile Lives: Itinerant and Street Trades in Historical Perspective, edited by Rosa Salzberg and Massimo Rospocher, 41–69. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2026. detailsBagnall, Kate. “Circulations of Belonging: Chinese British Subjects in Australasia, 1880–1920.” In The Making and Remaking of Australasia: Mobility, Texts and ‘Southern Circulations,’ edited by Tony Ballantyne, 135–52. Empire’s Other Histories. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. detailsBagnall, Kate, and Julia T. Martínez, eds. Locating Chinese Women: Historical Mobility between China and Australia. Crossing Seas. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2021. detailsBagnall, Kate. “Potter v. Minahan: Chinese Australians, the Law and Belonging in White Australia.” History Australia 15, no. 3 (July 3, 2018): 458–74. detailsopen accessBagnall, Kate. “Rewriting the History of Chinese Families in Nineteenth-Century Australia.” Australian Historical Studies 42, no. 1 (2011): 62–77. details