Kate Bagnall

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Currently: Exhausted by long COVID. Usually: Histories of migration, citizenship, family and the law. Australia, New Zealand and beyond. Senior Lecturer in Humanities at UTAS. Always: Missing south China and wishing my Cantonese was better.

A dinner plate with cooked green beans, fried cubed potato and cooked mince with chopped spring onions on top
Photograph of Little Bourke Street at night in the rain, with brightly lit shop fronts, glowing red lanterns hanging above the street, and cars and people
Shows the interior of a university building, with colourful lounges, a kitchen, and a table and chairs.
An illustration of a cute, smiling brown horse on a red background with Chinese characters reading 馬到成功
Old gravestone with the name Claude Nan Shing and other faint Chinese and English words on it
A smiley black Labrador dog sitting in front of a river at sunset
Screenshot of a text message that says, ‘Dear Kate, I think you’d be a fantastic applicant for this UTAS job’, followed by a link to the position of lecturer/senior lecturer in Humanities at the University of Tasmania
A selection of historical documents relating to the Tasmanian Chinese See Yip Social Club, including blank membership cards, rule book and account book
Photo of Kate, a middle aged woman with curly hair and glasses, and a baby sitting at a table in a cafe in Moonah. The baby’s face has been covered with an emoji sticker of a baby’s head.
View out of a row of windows looking over the sandstone wall of the Female Factory and trees towards kunanyi Mt Wellington.
Colour photo of an amazing sunrise over the Derwent River; the clouds are shades of pink and orange and yellow
View from Sandy Bay across the Derwent River, showing a very blue sky with streaky white clouds above the river and a beach.
Looking up towards a window with Venetian blinds. The blinds are slightly open and through them are a high-rise building and sky.
Graphic with a teal coloured background, stating ‘International Long COVID Awareness Day March 15 2025’, with the teal, black and grey Long COVID ribbon in the centre
Photograph of the morning sky looking south down the Derwent river over trees in the foreground. It is sunrise and the sky is a mixture of orange and blue clouds.
A vigorously flowering purple frilled African Violet plant in a small white ceramic pot.
Three small steamed cakes on a plate. On the top of the cakes is black moss and black sesame seeds.
Colourful fireworks against a black sky overlooking a river and city lights with silhouettes of gum trees in the foreground
Photograph of a sunset with a golden glowing rainbow and pink and blue clouds and sky
Yellow Chinese dragon, carried by 11 people, parading as part of Hobart’s Christmas Pageant. Near the head of the dragon are the Australian and PRC flags.
Parade with a pipe band progressing down a Hobart street with crowds lining the road
Three slides from my presentation on Section 3(m) of Australia’s Immigration Restriction Act 1901. Two of the slides have lovely photographs of Chinese women (and their families) who applied to migrate to Australia in the early 20th century.
Newspaper clipping about Tasmanian gum trees taken to China in 1932
Front cover of book titled FEMINIST HISTORIES with a line drawing of a group of women at a rally with a banner than reads ‘Women’s Liberation’
Kate Bagnall pictured sitting in her university office holding a small and very cute dog whose name-tag says ‘Ted’.
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Black and white snapshot of three men standing on a ledge of a Chinese pagoda. Handwritten caption reads Pagoda Canton 1912.
Photograph of a garden early on a winter morning in Hobart, with a large frosty lawn and bare fruit trees with larger trees on the horizon
Screenshot of a post from the History Australia account on X / Twitter listing 2023 History Australia Altmetric scores
View of a vibrant rainbow against grey clouds above the Wrest Point Casino and Derwent River in Hobart
Fireworks against a dark sky illuminating the silhouette of a large gum tree
View out a window showing the Wrest Point casino and Derwent River in Hobart. To the left of the window is a Christmas tree with baubles and tinsel.
Black and white tintype photograph of Kate Bagnall and Tim Sherratt
Colour photograph of a harbour port, with piers, boats (including the two Mona Roma boats) and dramatic clouds reflected in the water.
A colour photograph of Kate Bagnall standing in front of a white statue of a seated man (Yung Wing), dating from 1997.
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Black and white photograph, clipped from a newspaper, of a man wearing a shirt and tie, with glasses and dark, slicked-back hair. Underneath is a caption saying Gordon Wellesley. Los Angeles Times, 19 February 1931, Part II, p 5.
Colour photograph of Kate Bagnall sitting at a table holding a copy of the book ‘Subjects and Aliens’ in one hand and a glass of sparkling wine in the other
Colour photograph of a black Labrador dog with a red collar and silver-coloured dog-tags sitting on beige carpet