Maria Nugent (historian)

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Maria Nugent is an Australian historian, academic and author. She is an associate professor at the Australian Centre for Indigenous History, School of History, Australian National University (ANU). Her areas of interest include cross-cultural history and encounters in Australia, indigenous Australian history and memory studies, and material history and museum collections. She’s best known for researching and interpreting historical collections in possession of public museums and libraries, including the British Museum, the National Museum of Australia, Museum Victoria and the State Library of New South Wales (NSW). [1]

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Nugent’s body of work is informed by her 25-year-long involvement with the aboriginal community in La Perouse, NSW. [2]

Studies

Nugent completed her under graduation from the Australian National University (ANU), and received a Master’s degree from University of Sydney. She also has a graduate diploma in Adult Education from the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), [3] where she completed her PhD thesis in 2000. [4] [5]

Career

Nugent joined ANU in 2009 as a research fellow in the Australian Centre for Indigenous History. She served as the centre's co-director from 2018 to 2023. In 2024 she was appointed the head of the School of History at ANU. [1] Previously, in 2015-16, she was a visiting professor of Australian studies at University of Tokyo. [1]

Research

Nugent's research engages with Aboriginal history, memory, heritage, [6] material history and museum collections, and cross-cultural history and encounters. [7] She was granted the ARC Future Fellowship (2011-2015). [1] She was part of the research project, Ancestors, artefacts, empire – mobilising Aboriginal objects, funded by the Australian Research Council (2011–2023) along with Gaye Sculthorpe, Howard Morphy, and Lissant Bolton. [8]

Books

Edited books

Awards and institutional recognition

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Welcome to Maria Nugent, new Head of School | School of History". Australian National University. 1 July 2024. Retrieved 2025-05-25.
  2. ↑ "reCollections - Maria Nugent". recollections.nma.gov.au. Retrieved 2025-08-21.
  3. ↑ "Prof Maria Nugent". The Australian National University. Retrieved 2025-05-25.
  4. 1 2 "Allan Martin Award - Previous Winners". The Australian Historical Association. Retrieved 2025-05-25.
  5. ↑ Nugent, Maria (2000). Revisiting La Perouse : a postcolonial history (PhD thesis). University of Technology Sydney. Retrieved 26 May 2025.
  6. ↑ "Maria Nugent". Google Scholar. Retrieved 2025-05-25.
  7. ↑ "Maria Nugent". The Australian National University. Retrieved 2025-05-25.
  8. ↑ "Ancestors, artefacts, empire – mobilising Aboriginal objects". The British Museum. Archived from the original on 2024-07-16. Retrieved 2025-05-25.
  9. ↑ Nugent, Maria (2005). Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet. Sydney: Allen & Unwin. ISBN   978-1-74114-575-5.
  10. ↑ Nugent, Maria (2009). Captain Cook was here. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-0-521-76240-3.
  11. ↑ Carter, Sarah; Nugent, Maria (2016). Mistress of everything: Queen Victoria in indigenous worlds. Studies in imperialism. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN   978-1-78499-140-1.
  12. ↑ Cadzow, Allison (2016-04-27). Shellam, Tiffany; Nugent, Maria; Konishi, Shino (eds.). Brokers and boundaries: Colonial exploration in Indigenous territory (1st ed.). ANU Press. doi: 10.22459/bb.04.2016 . ISBN   978-1-76046-012-9.
  13. ↑ Sculthorpe, Gaye; Nugent, Maria; Morphy, Howard, eds. (2021). Ancestors, artefacts, empire: indigenous Australia in British and Irish museums. London: The British Museum Press. ISBN   978-0-7141-2490-2.
  14. ↑ "Grant - Grants Data Portal". dataportal.arc.gov.au. Retrieved 2025-08-21.
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