2000: PhD, Trinity College, Dublin 1996: MA (1st class hons), University College Dublin 1993: BA (Hons), University College Dublin
Research interests
Angela McCarthy's research focuses on global, transnational, and comparative migrations and the history of migration to New Zealand. She is currently working on three projects: a history of global migrations; Scotland and transatlantic slavery; and former refugees in Dunedin.
She regularly collaborates with colleagues in New Zealand and abroad including the GRAMNET group at the University of Glasgow and the Wilberforce Institute at the University of Hull.
She is on the editorial board of: History Scotland, International Review of Scottish Studies, Review of Scottish Culture, Australasian Journal of Irish Studies, Disability Studies Quarterly, and Kakapo Books.
Areas of research supervision
Global, transnational and comparative migration and ethnicity (including the Irish and the Scots); New Zealand, Scottish, Irish, and British history; the history of madness.
McCarthy, A., & Wanhalla, A. (2023). Scotland, transatlantic slavery, and mixed-race Africans in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of History, 57(2), 41-64.
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McCarthy, A. (2023). Henry Dundas and abolition of the British slave trade: Further evidence. Scottish Affairs, 32(3), 334-346. doi: 10.3366/scot.2023.0467
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McCarthy, A. (2022). Historians, activists and Britain's slave trade abolition debate: The Henry Dundas plaque debacle. Scottish Affairs, 31(3), 325-344. doi: 10.3366/scot.2022.0420
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McCarthy, A. (2022). Bad history: The controversy over Henry Dundas and the historiography of the abolition of the slave trade. Scottish Affairs, 31(2), 133-153. doi: 10.3366/scot.2022.0404
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McCarthy, A., & Devine, T. M. (2017). Tea & empire: James Taylor in Victorian Ceylon. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 253p.
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McCarthy, A. (2015). Migration, Ethnicity, and Madness: New Zealand, 1860-1910. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press, 234p.
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McCarthy, A. (2011). Scottishness and Irishness in New Zealand since 1840. Manchester University Press, 240p.
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McCarthy, A. (2007). Personal narratives of Irish and Scottish migration, 1921-65: 'For spirit and adventure'. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 257p.
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McCarthy, A. (2005). Irish migrants in New Zealand, 1840-1937: 'The desired haven'. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 314p.
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McCarthy, A. (Ed.). (2023). Narratives of migrant and refugee discrimination in New Zealand. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 182p. doi: 10.4324/9781003275077
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Evans, N. J., & McCarthy, A. (Eds.). (2020). Death in the diaspora: British and Irish gravestones. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 232p.
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Devine, T. M., & McCarthy, A. (Eds.). (2018). New Scots: Scotland's immigrant communities since 1945. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh Universtiy Press, 288p.
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Devine, T. M., & McCarthy, A. (Eds.). (2017). The Scottish experience in Asia, c. 1700 to the present: Settlers and sojourners. Palgrave Macmillan, 324p. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-43074-4_9
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Leckie, J., McCarthy, A., & Wanhalla, A. (Eds.). (2017). Migrant cross-cultural encounters in Asia and the Pacific. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 173p.
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McCarthy, A., & MacKenzie, J. M. (Eds.). (2016). Global migrations: The Scottish diaspora since 1600. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 289p.
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McCarthy, A. (Ed.). (2015). Ireland in the world: Comparative, transnational, and personal perspectives. New York: Routledge, 248p. doi: 10.4324/9781315749020
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McCarthy, A., & Coleborne, C. (Eds.). (2012). Migration, ethnicity, and mental health: International perspectives, 1840-2010. New York: Routledge, 216p.
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Fraser, L., & McCarthy, A. (Eds.). (2012). Far from 'Home': The English in New Zealand. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press, 232p.
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McCarthy, A. (Ed.). (2006). A global clan: Scottish migrant networks and identities since the eighteenth century. London: Tauris Academic Press, 224p.
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McCarthy, A. (2020). Learning form the past? Cambodian and Syrian refugee experiences in New Zealand, 1979-2019. Sites, 17(1), 91-114. doi: 10.11157/sites-id473
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McCarthy, A., Coleborne, C., O'Connor, M., & Knewstubb, E. (2017). Lives in the asylum record, 1864 to 1910: Utilising large data collection for histories of psychiatry and mental health. Medical History, 61(3), 358-379. doi: 10.1017/mdh.2017.33
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McCarthy, A. (2018). Madness, transnationalism, and emotions in nineteenth- and early twentieth -century New Zealand. In M. Rembis, C. J. Kudlick & K. Nielsen (Eds.), Oxford handbook of disability history. (pp. 293-306). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
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McCarthy, A. (2017). The Irish in Australia and New Zealand. In E. F. Biagini & M. E. Daly (Eds.), The Cambridge social history of modern Ireland. (pp. 478-496). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
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McCarthy, A. (2012). The Scottish diaspora since 1815. In T. M. Devine & J. Wormald (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of modern Scottish history. (pp. 510-532). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199563692.013.0028
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McCarthy, A. (2011). Scottish migrant ethnic identities in the British Empire since the nineteenth century. In J. M. MacKenzie & T. M. Devine (Eds.), Scotland and the British Empire. Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199573240.003.0005
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McCarthy, A. (2009). Migration and ethnic identities in the nineteenth century. In G. Byrnes (Ed.), The new Oxford history of New Zealand. (pp. 173-196). Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press Australia & New Zealand.
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McCarthy, A. (2017). Ceylon: A Scottish colony? In T. M. Devine & A. McCarthy (Eds.), The Scottish experience in Asia, c. 1700 to the present: Settlers and sojourners. (pp. 187-211). Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-43074-4_9
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McCarthy, A. (2016). The importance of Scottish origins in the nineteenth century: James Taylor and Ceylon tea. In A. McCarthy & J. M. MacKenzie (Eds.), Global migrations: The Scottish diaspora since 1600. (pp. 117-137). Edinburgh University Press.
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McCarthy, A. (2015). Migration and madness at sea: The nineteenth- and early twentieth-century voyage to New Zealand. Social History of Medicine, 28(4), 706-724. doi: 10.1093/shm/hkv039
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McCarthy, A. (2008). 'The only place worth thinking about': Personal testimony and Irish and Scottish migrants in Australasia, 1921-61. Social History, 33(3), 317-335. doi: 10.1080/03071020802268355
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McCarthy, A. (2006). Scottish national identities among inter-war migrants in North America and Australasia. Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History, 34(2), 201-222. doi: 10.1080/03086530600633421
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McCarthy, A. (2015). Introduction: Ireland in the world: Comparative, transnational, and personal perspectives. In A. McCarthy (Ed.), Ireland in the world: Comparative, transnational, and personal perspectives. (pp. 1-14). New York: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315749020
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McCarthy, A., & MacKenzie, J. M. (2016). Introduction: Global migrations: The Scottish diaspora since 1600. In A. McCarthy & J. M. MacKenzie (Eds.), Global migrations: The Scottish diaspora since 1600. (pp. 10-22). Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press.
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McCarthy, A. (2015). Exporting and repatriating the colonial insane: New Zealand before the First World War. In W. Jackson & E. Manktelow (Eds.), Subverting empire: Deviance and disorder in the British colonial world. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
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McCarthy, A. (2012). Migration and madness in New Zealand's asylums, 1863-1910. In A. McCarthy & C. Coleborne (Eds.), Migration, ethnicity, and mental health: International perspectives, 1840-2010. (pp. 55-72). New York: Routledge.
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McCarthy, A. (2012). Migration and ethnicity among English migrants in New Zealand asylums. In L. Fraser & A. McCarthy (Eds.), Far from 'Home': The English in New Zealand. (pp. 81-98). Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press.
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McCarthy, A. (2012). Transnational ties to home: Irish migrants in New Zealand asylums, 1860-1926. In P. M. Prior (Ed.), Asylums, mental health care and the Irish: Historical studies, 1800-2010. (pp. 149-166). Dubln, Ireland: Irish Academic Press.
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McCarthy, A. (2006). Ethnic networks and identities among inter-war Scottish migrants in North America. In A. McCarthy (Ed.), A global clan: Scottish migrant networks and identities since the eighteenth century. (pp. 203-226). London: Tauris Academic Press.
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McCarthy, A. (2012). Connections and divergences: Lunatic asylums in New Zealand and the homelands before 1910. Health & History, 14(1), 12-37.
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McCarthy, A. (2008). Ethnicity, migration and the lunatic asylum in early twentieth-century Auckland, New Zealand. Social History of Medicine, 21(1), 47-65. doi: 10.1093/shm/hkm117
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McCarthy, A. (2007). The Scots' Society of St Andrew, Hull, 1910-2001: Immigrant, ethnic and transnational association. Immigrants & Minorities, 25(3), 209-233. doi: 10.1080/02619280802407327
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McCarthy, A. (2018). Over the ocean foam: Migrant voyages from Britain and Ireland. In F. Steel (Ed.), New Zealand and the sea: Historical perspectives. (pp. 89-105). Wellington, New Zealand: Bridget Williams. doi: 10.7810/9780947518707
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