Nat Cutter

Dr Nat Cutter

Assistant Lecturer in History, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, The University of Melbourne

Nat is a historian of early modern Britain, North Africa, and the Mediterranean world. His interests include diplomacy, merchant networks, material culture, media history, book history, and piracy. His first book, Britain and the Ottoman Maghreb, 1662-1712: Merchants, Consuls, and Cultural Exchange, was published with Oxford University Press in 2026. Nat’s interests also encompass digital humanities, including critical analysis of databases and the role of artificial intelligence in historical research; a co-authored book with Tyne Daile Sumner and Rachel Fensham, Cultural Data: The Intimate Analytics of Digital Collections, also appeared in 2026. Nat’s research has won prizes from ANZAMEMS and the Hakluyt Society and research funding from the Huntington Library,  Folger Shakespeare Library, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Australian Academy of the Humanities, ANZAMEMS, and University of Melbourne. His current projects include a social history of Tunisian initiative in early modern Mediterranean trade, a critical edition of merchant correspondence from seventeenth-century Tunis, and a study of British cultural perceptions of the Maghreb drawing on marginalia, provenance, and digital network analysis.

Email: nat.cutter@unimelb.edu.au