Katie Pickles Explained

Katie Pickles
Discipline:	Postcolonial and feminist history
Workplaces:	University of Canterbury
Alma Mater:	McGill University
Thesis1 Title:	Representing twentieth century Canadian colonial identity : the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE)
Thesis1 Url:	https://mcgill.on.worldcat.org/oclc/898032381
Thesis1 Year:	1996
Doctoral Advisor:	Audrey Kobayashi
Doctoral Students:	Megan Woods Angela Wanhalla

Catherine Gillian Pickles is a New Zealand history academic, and as of 2019 is a full professor at the University of Canterbury.^[1]

Academic career

After an undergraduate at the University of Canterbury (where she edited the student paper Canta) and University of British Columbia,^[2] Pickles completed a 1996 PhD titled 'Representing twentieth century Canadian colonial identity : the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE)' at McGill University. Pickles returned to the University of Canterbury, rising to full professor.^[1]

Much of Pickles' work is influenced by postcolonial and feminist approaches.^[1] ^[3] ^[4] ^[5] ^[6] ^[7]

Pickles, Katie. "Female imperialism and national identity." (2018).
Pickles, Katie. Transnational outrage: The death and commemoration of Edith Cavell. Springer, 2016.
Rutherdale, Myra, and Katie Pickles, eds. Contact zones: Aboriginal and settler women in Canada's colonial past. UBC Press, 2014.
Pickles, Katie. "A link in ‘the great chain of Empire friendship’: the Victoria League in New Zealand." The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 33, no. 1 (2005): 29-50.
Pickles, Katie. "Colonial counterparts: the first academic women in Anglo-Canada, New Zealand and Australia." Women's History Review 10, no. 2 (2001): 273–298.
Pickles, Katie. "Kiwi Icons and the Re‐Settlement of New Zealand 1 as Colonial Space." New Zealand Geographer 58, no. 2 (2002): 5–16.