Katie Pickles
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Katie Pickles | |
|---|---|
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | McGill University |
| Thesis | |
| Doctoral advisor | Audrey Kobayashi |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Postcolonial and feminist history |
| Institutions | University of Canterbury |
| Doctoral students | Megan Woods Angela Wanhalla |
Catherine Gillian Pickles FRSNZ is a New Zealand history academic, and as of 2019 is a full professor at the University of Canterbury. In 2025, Pickles was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi and the United Kingdom's Royal Historical Society.
After an undergraduate at the University of Canterbury (where she edited the student paper Canta) and University of British Columbia,[1] 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.[2]
Much of Pickles' work is influenced by postcolonial and feminist approaches.[2][3][4][5][6][7]
In March 2025, Pickles was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi "for being an international leader in feminist history".[8] In July 2025, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in the United Kingdom.[9]
