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BlueSky: @NatCutter.
Email: nat [dot] cutter [at] unimelb [dot] edu [dot] au
Employment History
2026-: Assistant Lecturer in History, University of Melbourne
2024-26: Mary Lugton Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Melbourne
2022-23: Teaching Associate (Periodic), History, University of Melbourne
2021-23: Research Coordinator, ARC LIEF Project Australian Cultural Data Engine, University of Melbourne
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Nat Cutter, Britain and the Ottoman Maghreb, 1662-1712: Merchants, Consuls, and Cultural Exchange. Oxford University Press, 2026. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/britain-and-the-ottoman-maghreb-16621712-9780198987024?lang=en&cc=gb.
Tyne Daile Sumner, Nat Cutter and Rachel Fensham, Cultural Data: The Intimate Analytics of Digital Collections. Routledge, 2026. https://www.routledge.com/Cultural-Data-The-Intimate-Analytics-of-Digital-Collections/Sumner-Cutter-Fensham/p/book/9781032492933.
Lubaaba al-Azami, Nat Cutter, Peter Good and Aisha Hussain, eds, ‘Transcultural Encounters Between England and the Islamic Worlds’, special issue of Renaissance Studies 37, 5 (2023), https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14774658/0/0.
Nat Cutter, Tyne Daile Sumner and Rachel Fensham, ‘The Slipperiness of Name: Gender and Biography in Australian Cultural Databases’, Gender & History 37, 1 (2025): 411-428, published online 5 June 2023. Available at https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12699.
Nat Cutter, ‘Exile in Barbary: English-speaking expatriates, biblical theology, and mercantile ethics in the seventeenth-century Maghreb’, Renaissance Studies 39, 1 (2025): 81-103, https://doi.org/10.1111/rest.12965. In special issue ‘Innovation and Exile in the Early Modern World’, edited by Christophe Gillain and Annalisa Nicholson.
Nat Cutter, ‘Morocco Leather in Early Modern Britain: Towards a Transcultural History of Fine Leather Bookbindings’, Parergon 41, 2 (2024): 103-132, https://doi-org.eu1.proxy.openathens.net/10.1353/pgn.2024.a946927. In special issue edited by Rosalind Smith, Sarah C.E. Ross and Anna Welch.
Rachel Fensham, Tyne Sumner, and Nat Cutter et al., ‘Towards a National Data Architecture for Cultural Collections: Designing the Australian Cultural Data Engine’, Digital Humanities Quarterly 18, 2 (2024), http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/18/2/000678/000678.html.
Nat Cutter, ‘Knowing the Maghreb in Stuart Scotland, Ireland and Northern England’, Renaissance Studies 37, 5 (2023): 767-90, https://doi.org/10.1111/rest.12885.
Nat Cutter, ‘Grateful Fresh Advices and Random Dark Relations: Maghrebi News and Experiences in British Expatriate Letters, 1660-1710’ Cultural and Social History 19, 4 (2022): 425-444. In special issue edited by Giada Pizzoni. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2022.2042902.
Nat Cutter, ‘“Grieved in my soul that I suffered you to depart from me”: Isolation and Community in the English Houses at Tunis and Tripoli, 1679-1686’, in Keeping Family in an Age of Long Distance Trade, Imperial Expansion and Exile 1550-1850, edited by Heather Dalton (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020), 169-89. Available at: http://go.unimelb.edu.au/tz3j
Nat Cutter, ‘Peace with Pirates? Maghrebi Maritime Combat, Diplomacy, and Trade in English Periodical News, 1622-1714’, Humanities 8, 4 (2019), article no. 179, special issue ‘Pirates in English Literature’ edited by Claire Jowitt and Manushag Powell. Available at: http://go.unimelb.edu.au/j85r
Nat Cutter, ‘Turks, Moors, Deys and Kingdoms: North African Diversity in English News before 1700’, Melbourne Historical Journal 46 (2018): 61-84. Available at: http://go.unimelb.edu.au/x85r
Nat Cutter, ‘Baker, Thomas (b. 1639/40, d. 1729), diplomatist and diarist’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, published online 10 August 2023. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.90000380753.
Nat Cutter, ‘Goodwyn, Thomas (d. 1722/27), merchant and diplomatist’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, published online 10 August 2023. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.90000380754.
Nat Cutter, ‘Stedham, Edith (d. 1695), housekeeper and merchant’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, published online 10 August 2023. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.90000380783.
Tyne Daile Sumner, Rachel Fensham, Nat Cutter and Joanna Mendelssohn, ‘What’s In A Name? A Cross-Section of Biography, Gender & Metadata in the Design & Art Australia Online Database’, in Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, University of Washington, October 2022, published online August 2023. Available at: https://doi.org/10.23106/dcmi.953116014.
Nat Cutter, ‘Between Captives and Consuls: Searching for the “Little English” of Barbary’ (Greg Dening Memorial Lecture), Melbourne Historical Journal 47, 1 (2019/20): 129-39.
Digital Projects and Online Publications
Medieval and Early Modern Orients, AHRC/University of Liverpool, https://memorients.com/ (founding contributor and subeditor)
- Blog posts: https://memorients.com/members/nat-cutter
- Maghreb sections of Ottoman Empire overview, timeline and bibliography: https://memorients.com/ottoman-empire
- Maghreb sections of Maghreb and Al-Andalus overview, timeline and bibliography: https://memorients.com/maghreb-and-al-andalus
Nat Cutter, ‘Performing Diplomacy and Selling Spectacle’, Collation blog, Folger Shakespeare Library, 14 July 2022, https://collation.folger.edu/2022/07/performing-diplomacy/
Nat Cutter, ‘Hadge Biram: A Restoration Renegade’, British Library Untold Lives blog, 25 July 2022, https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2022/07/hadge-biram-a-restoration-renegade.html
Nat Cutter, ‘From enemies to neighbours: British merchants in the Maghreb’, Aeon, 31 May 2022, https://aeon.co/essays/from-enemies-to-neighbours-british-merchants-in-the-maghreb
Nat Cutter, ‘Freshest Advices from Barbary: News & Information Flows Between Restoration Britain and the Maghreb’, Hakluyt Society Blog, 13 March 2022, https://hakluytsociety.wordpress.com/2022/03/13/freshest-advices-from-barbary-news/
Nat Cutter, ‘Performance, advertising, and Anglo-Maghrebi diplomacy in Restoration and Augustan London’, Shakespeare and Beyond blog, Folger Shakespeare Library, 27 April 2021, https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2021/04/27/performance-advertising-anglo-maghrebi-diplomacy-restoration-augustan-london/
Selected Grants & Prizes
With Andrea Rizzi, Nicholas Terpstra, and others, The Fabric of Trust: Early Modern Materiality, Sense, and Gender, Manchester-Melbourne-Toronto Joint Research Fund, 2025-26, $15,000 AUD + $14,000 CAD
Material Cultures and British-Maghrebi Relations, 1600-1800, University of Melbourne Early Career Researcher Grants, 2023, $25000 AUD
With Rachel Fensham, Tyne Daile Sumner, and the Australian Cultural Data Engine team, Research Infrastructure Excellence Award for Innovation and Contribution to Research 2023, University of Melbourne
Bibliotheca Barbaria: Reception and Diffusion of Texts about the Maghreb in Early Modern Britain, William A. Ringler, Jr. Short-Term Fellowship, Huntington Library, 2022-23, $3500 USD
Power, Print and Materiality: Morocco Leather and British-Maghrebi Relations, 1600-1800, ANZAMEMS Early Career Fellowship, 2022-23, $3000 AUD + six-month mentorship
Moorish Habits and Civil Entertainments: Performance‚ Advertising‚ and Anglo-Maghrebi Diplomacy‚ 1681-1734, 2021 American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies/Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowship, 2021-22, $3500 USD
Hakluyt Society Essay Prize, 2021, £1000 GBP
SHAPS Fellows’ Group Annual History Essay Prize, University of Melbourne, 2019, $250 AUD
Greg Dening Memorial Prize, Melbourne Historical Journal, 2018, $600 AUD