Katie Pickles

Catherine Gillian Pickles 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.

Academic career

After an undergraduate at the University of Canterbury and University of British Columbia, Pickles completed a 1996 PhD titled 'Representing twentieth century Canadian colonial identity : the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire ' at McGill University. Pickles returned to the University of Canterbury, rising to full professor.
Much of Pickles' work is influenced by postcolonial and feminist approaches.
In March 2025 Pickles was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi "for being an international leader in feminist history".

Pickles, Katie. "Female imperialism and national identity.".
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 : 29-50.
Pickles, Katie. "Colonial counterparts: the first academic women in Anglo-Canada, New Zealand and Australia." Women's History Review 10, no. 2 : 273–298.
Pickles, Katie. "Kiwi Icons and the Re‐Settlement of New Zealand 1 as Colonial Space." New Zealand Geographer 58, no. 2 : 5–16.