Associate Professor Andrew Fitzmaurice
BEc (Hons) (Sydney) PhD (Cambridge)
Senior Lecturer
Room 846 Brennan Building
+61 2 9351 2472
Andrew Fitzmaurice BEc (Hons) Sydney University; MA (Hons) University of New South Wales; PhD St John's College, Cambridge joined the Department of History in 1999. Prior to this, he was a post-doctoral fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge (1995-7), and a U2000 Research Fellow in the Department of Government, Sydney University (1997-9).
Research areas
- Early Modern British, European and Atlantic history
- intellectual history
- the history of political thought
- the history of colonisation.
Current projects
Selected publications
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Une histoire de Terra Nullius Librairie L’Atalante (Nantes, forthcoming) – contract signed January 20, 2007 [this will be a French edition of my A history of terra nullius which is in preparation for a major university press]
David Armitage, Conal Condren and Andrew Fitzmaurice, eds., Shakespeare and early modern political thought (forthcoming Cambridge University Press)
Humanism and America: An intellectual history of English colonisation, 1500-1625. (Ideas in Context; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2003)
| Articles & Book Chapters |
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‘The corruption of Hamlet’, in David Armitage, Conal Condren and Andrew Fitzmaurice, eds., Shakespeare and early modern political thought (forthcoming Cambridge University Press)
‘The resilience of natural law in the writings of Sir Travers Twiss’, in Ian Hall and Lisa Hill, eds., British International Thinkers from Hobbes to Namier (forthcoming Palgrave)
‘The Commercial Ideology of Colonisation in Jacobean England: Robert Johnson, Giovanni Botero and the Pursuit of Greatness.’, William and Mary Quarterly, October 2007
‘A genealogy of terra nullius’, Australian Historical Studies, April 2007
‘Moral uncertainty in the dispossession of native Americans’, in Peter Mancall, ed., Virginia and the Atlantic world, Omohundro Institute of Early American History, (Chapel Hill, 2007)
‘American corruption’, in John McDiarmid, ed., The monarchical republic in early modern England (Aldershot, 2007)
'Anti-Colonialism in Western Political Thought: The Colonial Origins of the Concept of Genocide', in A. Dirk Moses, ed., Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History (New York, 2008)
‘Rights and nationhood: The beginnings’, in The world of 1607, The Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation (Yorktown, 2007)
‘American colonization tracts and other promotional literature’, in The world of 1607, The Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, (Yorktown, 2007)
'The ideology of early modern colonisation', History Compass, February, 2004
"Every Man, that Prints, Adventures: The Rhetoric of the Virginia Company Sermons", in Lori Anne Ferrell and Peter McCullough (eds.), The English Sermon Revised: Religion, Literature and History, 1500 - 1800, (Manchester University Press, Manchester 2000)
"Classical Rhetoric and the Promotion of the New World", The Journal of the History of Ideas, 58 (1997), 221-44
"The Civic Solution to the Crisis of English Colonisation 1609 -1625", The Historical Journal, 42, I (1999)
Areas of teaching and research supervision
| Teaching |
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- HSTY 1031 Renaissance and Reformation
- HSTY2050 European Conquests 1500-1750
| Supervision |
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- Early modern history
- intellectual history
- European expansion
Conference Activity
In 2009 and 2010 I will be engaged in organising seminars Atlantic Justice in the Pacific World: Property, Rights, and Indigeneity and The Antarctic Laboratory: Science, Culture, and Law for SOPHI’s John E. Sawyer Seminar series on the Comparative Study of Cultures, ‘The Antipodean Laboratory: Humanity, Sovereignty, and Environment in Southern Oceans and Lands, 1700-2009’, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. See Sawyer Seminar Series.