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Dr Nicole Starbuck
To link to this page, please use the following URL: Biography/ BackgroundNicole Starbuck completed her BA (Hons) at Monash University and the University of Melbourne before obtaining a PhD, through the ARC Discovery Project "The Baudin Legacy: A New History of the French Scientific Voyage to Australia, 1800-1804", at the University of Adaide. She has been teaching at the University of Adelaide since 2008. Teaching InterestsNicole coordinates the first-year History course HIST1105 Europe, Empire and the World, 1492-1914. She has also co-convened HIST1106 The Twentieth Century: A World in Turmoil, and tutored in HIST2069 Heresy and Witchcraft in Medieval Europe. She also represents the faculty of the Humanities and Social Sciences on the First Year Experience Group committee, which looks at developing and improving support programmes for first-year students. Research InterestsNicole studies the history of French exploration in the Pacific. Her main research interests include cross-cultural history, "race" and the scientific expedition in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She has focused in particular on the Baudin expedition as well as the voyages of the Bourbon Restoration. Currently Nicole is working on a monograph entitled Baudin, Napoleon and the Exploration of Australia. http://www.pickeringchatto.com/baudin
Publications
Scholarly Books Baudin, Napoleon and the Exploration of Australia, London: Pickering and Chatto, forthcoming 2013. Scholarly Book Chapters “‘Primitive Race’, ‘Pure Race’, ‘Brown Race’, ‘Every Race’: Freycinet’s Understanding of Human of Difference in Oceania”, in Discovery and Empire: the French in the South Seas, ed. J. West-Sooby, Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press: forthcoming 2011. Journal Articles “Nicolas Baudin, la relâche à Sydney et la deuxième campagne duGéographe”, in M. Jangoux (ed.), Portés par l’air du temps, les voyages de Nicolas Baudin, special number of Etudes sur le XVIIIe siècle, 38, 2010, pp. 134-142. “Sir Joseph Banks and the Baudin Expedition: The Politics of the Republic of Letters”, French History and Civilization. Papers from the George Rudé Seminar, ed. G. Betros, vol. 3, 2009, pp. 56-68. Conference Submissions “Friendship, Boundaries and Reciprocity: Papuan Encounters with a Scientific Voyager, 1818-19”, presented at the François Péron and the Figure of the Scientific Traveller conference, University of Adelaide, Kingscote, Kangaroo Island, 26-28 November 2010. “To Study the Human Race”: Louis Freycinet’s West Papuan Ethnography, 1818-19”, presented at the Thinking the Human in the Era of Enlightenment conference, Humanities Research Centre, RSHA in association with the School of Social Sciences, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Canberra, 7-9 July 2010. “Nicolas Baudin, la relâche à Sydney et la deuxième campagne du Géographe”, presented at the Portés par l’air du temps: la vie et les voyages du capitaine Baudin conference, Royal Academy of Science, Brussels, 2-5 September 2009. “‘Primitive Race’, ‘Pure Race’, ‘Brown Race’, ‘Every Race’: Freycinet’s Understanding of Human Difference in Oceania”, presented at the Discovery and Empire: the French in the South Seas symposium, State Library of South Australia, 8 July 2009 (part of the XVIIthBiennial Conference of the Australasian Association of European Historians, 6-9 July 2009). “Sir Joseph Banks and the Baudin Expedition: The Politics of the Republic of Letters”, presented at the XVIth George Rudé Seminar in French History and Civilization, Brisbane, 9-11 July 2008. “La Collection Scientifique de Port Jackson” presented at the Conquering Terra Australis: From Discovery to Collection conference, Le Havre, France, 6-8 December 2007. “The Baudin Expedition in Port Jackson, 1802: Enlightenment Values and Imperial Culture”, presented at the National Library of Australia, 7 February 2007. “‘Our French Guests’: the Baudin Expedition in colonial Sydney, 1802”, presented at the Indian and Pacific Crossings: Perspectives on Globalisation and History conference, Fremantle, 12-15 December 2006. Book Reviews “Encounters with Fringe-Dwellers”, review of Shaking Hands on the Fringe: Negotiating the Aboriginal World at King George’s Sound, by T. Shellam (Perth: UWA Press, 2009), History Australia, 8, 1 (2011), pp. 260-262.
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