Dr C G Pickles
Position
Associate Professor of History
Qualifications
BA(Canterbury), MA (UBC), PhD (McGill)
Room
Room 313, History Building
Contact Details
Phone: +64 (03) 364-2275
Internal Phone: 6275
katie.pickles@canterbury.ac.nz
Postal address
History Department
School of Humanities
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch
New Zealand
Undergraduate Courses
HIST255/GEND215: Heroines in History
HIST243/HIST352: Kiwi Culture
For up-to-date details of Katie Pickles's research interests and publications, please visit her UC Spark .
Research Interests
Women's, gender and feminist history, imperial history, 'Transnational History' and 'British World History', gender studies, postcolonial studies. Feminist cultural and historical geography.
Current major research project is 'A Woman's Country?: Identifying and Explaining New Zealand Heroines'.
School Administration
Director of Graduate Students, Gender Studies Programme Committee
Recent Publications
Books:
Pickles, Katie 2007 Transnational Outrage: the Death and Commemoration of Edith Cavell, (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave MacMillan).
Pickles, Katie 2002 and 2009 Female Imperialism and National Identity: Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE), (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press), Studies in Imperialism.
Books edited:
Pickles, Katie and Myra Rutherdale (eds) 2005 Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Colonial Canada, (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press).
Fraser, Lyndon and Katie Pickles (eds) 2002 Shifting Centres: Women and Migration in New Zealand History. Otago University Press, Dunedin.
Pickles, Katie (ed) 1998 Hall of Fame: Life Stories of New Zealand Women, (Christchurch, Clerestory Press).
Journal articles and chapters in books:
Pickles, Katie 2009, 'Colonisation, Empire and Gender', in Giselle Byrnes (ed) The New Oxford History of New Zealand (Oxford University Press, Oxford and Melbourne), 219-241.
Pickles, Katie 2009, 'Transnational Intentions and Cultural Cringe: History Beyond National Boundaries, in Christopher Dummitt and Michael Dawson (eds), Contesting Clio's Craft: New Directions and Debates in Canadian History (London: Institute for the Study of the Americas), 141-61.
Pickles, Katie 2007 'Kilts as Costumes: Identity, Resistance and Tradition', in Bronwyn Labrum, Fiona McKergow and Stephanie Gibson (eds) Looking Flash: Clothing in Aotearoa New Zealand (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2007), 41-58.
Pickles, Katie 2006 'Claiming Cavell: Britishness and Memorialization', in Phillip Buckner and Douglas Francis (eds) Canada and the Biritsh World (Vancouver: UBC Press) 157-73.
Pickles, Katie 2006 'From Wasteland to Playground: Bottle Lake Forest Park', in Kynan Gentry and Gavin McLean (eds) Heartlands (Auckland: Penguin), 223-36.
Pickles, Katie 2006 'Mapping Memorials for Edith Cavell on the Colonial Edge', New Zealand Geographer, 62: 1, 13-24.
Pickles, Katie 2005 'Colonial Sainthood in Australasia', National Identities, 7: 4, 389-408.
Pickles, Katie 2005 'The Old and the New On Parade: Mimesis, Queen Victoria and Carnival Queens on Victoria Day in Interwar Victoria', in Katie Pickles and Myra Rutherdale (eds) Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada's Colonial Past, UBC Press, in press 272-91.
Pickles, Katie 2005 'Thinking Beyond Celebration: Woman Icons, Feminism and History' (UNSW, Sydney, Women's History Revisited: Historiographical Reflections on Women and Gender in a Global Context: 20th International Congress of Historical Sciences, 8-9 July, 2005), Published Proceedings.
Pickles, Katie 2005 "A Link in 'The Great Chain of Empire Friendship': The Victoria League in New Zealand", Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 33: 1, 29-50.
Pickles, Katie 2004 'Landscape, Memory, and Female Imperialism: The Australian Memorialisation of Edith Cavell', in Kate Darian-Smith, Patricia Grimshaw, Kiera Lindsay and Stuart Macintyre (eds) Exploring the British World (Melbourne: RMIT Publishing), 271-294.
Pickles, Katie 2004, 'Locating Widows in Mid-Nineteenth Century Pictou County, Nova Scotia', Journal of Historical Geography, 30:1, 70-86.
Pickles, Katie 2003 'Bottle Lake: From Site of Discard to Environmental Playground?', Environment and History, 9, 419-34.
Pickles, Katie 2002 'Pink-Cheeked and Surplus' in Lyndon Fraser and Katie Pickles (eds) Shifting Centres: Women and Migration in New Zealand History (Dunedin: Otago University Press), 63-80.
Pickles, Katie 2002 'Coffee, Tea and Spinsters' Sprees: Female Imperialism in Sherbrooke and the Eastern Townships', Journal of Eastern Townships Studies, October, 21, 73-97.
Pickles, Katie 2002 'Kiwi Icons and the Re-Settlement of New Zealand as Colonial Space', New Zealand Geographer, October, 58: 2, 5-16.
Pickles, Katie 2001 'Colonial Counterparts: The First Academic Women in Anglo-Canada, New Zealand and Australia', The Women's History Review, vol.10 no.2, 273-297.
Pickles, Katie 2001 'Exceptions to the Rule: Explaining the World's First Women Presidents and Prime Ministers', History Now, vo.7, no.2, May, 13-18.
Pickles, Katie 2001 'Single British Women as New Zealand Domestic Servants During the 1920s', New Zealand Journal of History, April, 35, 1, 22-44.
Pickles, Katie 2000 'Workers and Workplaces: Industry and Modernity' in John Cookson and Graeme Dunstall (eds) Southern Capital Christchurch: Towards a City Biography 1850-2000, (Christchurch: Canterbury University Press), 138-161.
Pickles, Katie 2000 'Exhibiting Canada: The 1928 English Schoolgirl Tour of Canada', Gender, Place and Culture: a Journal of Feminist Geography, 7:1, 81-96.
Pickles, Katie 1998 'Forgotten Colonizers: The Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE) in the Canadian North', Canadian Geographer, vol.42, 2, Summer, 193-204.
Pickles, Katie 1997 'Edith Cavell - Heroine. No Hatred or Bitterness for Anyone?' History Now, vol.3, no.2, October, 1-8.
Kobayashi, Audrey, Linda Peake, Hal Benenson and Katie Pickles 1994 'Placing Women and Work.' Introduction to A Kobayashi, (ed) Women, Work and Place, (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press), xi-xlv.