Dr Caitlin Harvey

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.