Kate Bagnall

Kate Bagnall is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Tasmania. Her research explores histories of migration, family and the law, with a focus on Chinese communities in southern Australia and New Zealand. Before joining the University of Tasmania in 2019, Kate was an ARC DECRA Research Fellow at the University of Wollongong, where she undertook a comparative study of Chinese colonial citizenship in New South Wales, British Columbia and New Zealand. She has published widely in her field, including, with Julia Martínez, the ground-breaking edited collection, 'Locating Chinese Women: Historical Mobility between China and Australia' (HKU Press, 2021).