I am the Mary Lugton Postdoctoral Fellow and Assistant Lecturer in History at the University of Melbourne, Australia. My doctoral thesis, completed in July 2022, examined the experiences of British expatriates who lived in the Maghreb between 1660 and 1714, and their influences on diplomatic, economic, military, and cultural relations between Britain and the Maghreb. A book manuscript based on my thesis, tentatively titled Britain and the Ottoman Maghreb, 1662-1712, is currently under consideration with Oxford University Press.
My current project, funded by the Mary Lugton Postdoctoral Fellowship (2024-26), investigates networked trade practices and cultural exchanges between Ottoman Tunis and the Mediterranean world, 1675-1750.
I have published on the image of the Maghreb in British periodical news, social life and religion among Britons in Ottoman Tunis and Tripoli, and digital historical methodologies, and am currently co-authoring with Tyne Daile Sumner and Rachel Fensham a book for Routledge entitled Cultural Data: The Intimate Analytics of Digital Collections.
I also teach medieval and early modern history across the undergraduate degree, and am available for supervision of honours, MA and PhD theses, as well as for media contact and industry collaboration in my areas of interest, which include include relations between Britain and the Islamicate world, early modern media history, correspondence and merchant networks, material culture and cross-cultural exchange, history of the family, and the histories of religion, migration, expatriation and exile. I enjoy parks, cycling, playing guitar, yoghurt, and books.
If you are interested in my work, have a look at my recent publications and talks on this site, visit my University Profile here or get in contact with me via email at nat [dot] cutter [at] unimelb [dot] edu [dot] au.
