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Dr Nicholas Pitt

Dr Nicholas Pitt

Post-Doc Fellow
Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of Humanities & Languages

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,
  • Journal articles | 2026
    Nitschke MC; Williams AN; Ingrey SD; Griffiths B; Pitt N; Russell L; Ulm S; Beller K; Bird MI; Fatima SH; McNiven IJ; Saltré F; Bashford A; Wilson C; Bradshaw CJA, 2026, 'Stochastic models indicate rapid smallpox spread and mass mortality of Indigenous Australians after colonial exposure', Nature Human Behaviour, 10, pp. 1675 - 1685,
    Journal articles | 2026
    Pitt N; D’Gluyas C, 2026, 'Mapping People, Labor, and Movement in the First Decades (1788–1825) of Colonial Parramatta, Australia, with Historical Spatial Data Infrastructure', International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 30, pp. 794 - 813,
    Journal articles | 2026
    Pitt N, 2026, 'Smallpox on the Limits of Location: The Politics of Diagnosis in New South Wales, 1830–34', Australian Historical Studies, 57, pp. 458 - 479,
    Journal articles | 2026
    Williams AN; Tobler R; Griffiths B; Ulm S; Nitschke MC; Bird MI; Ingrey S; Saltré F; Beller K; McNiven IJ; Pitt N; Russell L; Paterson A; Wilson C; Bradshaw CJA, 2026, 'Large estimated size of the Australian Indigenous population before its extensive decline following colonial invasion', Nature Human Behaviour,
    Journal articles | 2025
    Pitt N; Norman H, 2025, 'Boulol and Thunna Thunna: Aboriginal responses to smallpox on the western plains and river country in south-east Australia, 1830–1832', Aboriginal History Journal, 49, pp. 3 - 28,
    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, 32, pp. 165 - 187,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Pitt N, 2019, 'Clay and ‘civilisation’ - imperial ideas and colonial industry in sydney, 1788-1823', History Australia, 16, pp. 375 - 398,
  • Other | 2025
    Pitt N; D'Gluyas C, 2025, Parramatta Historical Spatial Data Infrastructure v1,
    Other | 2025
    Pitt N, 2025, Mapping smallpox cases and vaccination efforts in New South Wales, 1830 to 1834: Supporting material for the article, ‘Smallpox on the limits of location: the politics of diagnosis in New South Wales, 1830-34’,
    Theses / Dissertations | 2024
    Pitt N, 2024, Settlers and the city: the colonising entanglements of Sydney, its settlers, and their world, 1830-50,
    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,
    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, 91É«ÇéƬ Sydney, Colombo Theatres, 91É«ÇéƬ Sydney, 14 August 2019,
    Preprints |
    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, Stochastic models indicate rapid smallpox spread and mass mortality of Indigenous Australians after colonial exposure,
    Preprints |
    Williams A; Tobler R; Griffiths B; Ulm S; Nitschke M; Bird M; Ingrey S; Saltré F; Beller K; McNiven I; Pitt N; Russell L; Wilson C; Bradshaw C, Large size of the Australian Indigenous population prior to its massive decline following European invasion,
  • Media | 2026
    Norman H; Pitt N, 2026, Arêtes de poisson, quarantaine et vaccination : les armes des Aborigènes contre la variole,
    Media | 2026
    Norman H; Pitt N, 2026, Fish bones and scorching hair: new research shows how Aboriginal people fought smallpox,

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'