Dr Caitlin Harvey

Dr Caitlin Harvey

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Arts Cultures and Education
  • School of Humanities

Qualifications

  • BA
  • MSt (University of Oxford)
  • PhD / DPhil (Princeton University)

Summary

Dr Caitlin Harvey is a Lecturer in History at the University of Hull. Her research examines the history of migration, race, settlement, and education in a British imperial and global context. Her scholarly interests also include Indigenous history and the institutional and political development of settler/Indigenous societies since 1800. From 2021 to 2024, she was an Early Career Research Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge. She also holds a Ph.D. in History from Princeton University, along with degrees from the University of Oxford and the University of Western Ontario.

Her current book project, 'Bricks and Mortar Boards: University-Building and the Growth of Settler Society, 1820-1920', examines the rapid expansion of university education across Britain’s colonies of settlement and their self-governing successors – Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States – from new universities’ shaky beginnings at the start of the nineteenth century to their firm foundations and continued growth a century later. Her research has been published in Past & Present, The Journal of Women’s History, The Canadian Historical Review, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, and the Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) Journal, among other venues.

Recent outputs

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Journal Article

University Land Grabs: Indigenous Dispossession and the Universities of Toronto and Manitoba

Harvey, C. (2023). University Land Grabs: Indigenous Dispossession and the Universities of Toronto and Manitoba. The Canadian Historical Review, 104(4), 467-493. https://doi.org/10.3138/chr-2023-0004

Gold Rushes, Universities and Globalization, 1840–1910

Harvey, C. (2023). Gold Rushes, Universities and Globalization, 1840–1910. Past & Present: A Journal of Historical Studies, 261(1), 118-157. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtac042

Research interests

political economy; empire; settler colonialism; Indigenous communities; British imperial & global history

Membership/Fellowship of professional body

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

2023

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