Research Output per year
Personal profile
Research interests
I am a religious and cultural historian. My major research interests lie in the history of religion and imperialism particularly within the transnational boundaries of the nineteenth-century British empire. I am interested in big historical questions such as how religion serves to tie empires together (or tear them apart) and different sites of mission-led settler colonialism. I have written about the history of religious orders, missions and missionaries, missionary linguistics, the history of the colonial Bible and 'colonial' missions to British settler colonies. My new book, Empire of Hell, winner of the Kay Daniels prize, provides a religious history of the campaign to end the transportation of British and Irish convicts.
I trained initially as a medieval historian at the University of Oxford and I continue to retain an interest in forms of belief across the Latin, Greek and Arabic cultures of the medieval world.
Current Projects
I am currently researching a history of religious missions to the Greenlandic and Canadian Arctic. I am also researching missions to seamen.
Research interests
Contact details
Prof. Hilary M. Carey FAHAProfessor of Imperial & Religious HistorySchool of Humanities (History)13 Woodland Road (Rm B48)Clifton Bristol BS8 1THEmail: hilary.carey@bristol.ac.ukTel: +44 117 3318245 (Internal 18245) Office 13 Woodland Road, Basement B48.Research interests
Teaching
I teach a range of courses for undergraduates and postgraduates in areas of my research expertise. This year I am contributing to HIST10048 The Modern World, HIST20120 Outlaws and HISTM0017 Themes in the History of Colonialism. I am convening HIST30122 Global Empires in tb2.
Research interests
Research supervision
I am happy to supervise postgraduates in the fields of imperial religious history, histories of settler colonialism and topics in religious history more widely.
External positions
Expert Panel for Humanities and Arts, Icelandic Research Fund
2017 → 2020Conjoint Professor, University of Newcastle, Australia
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Research Output
Empire of Hell: Religion and the Campaign to End Convict Transportation in the British Empire, 1788-1875
Carey, H., Mar 2019, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 359 p.Research output: Book/Report › Authored book
Religion and Greater Ireland: Christianity and Irish Global Networks, 1750–1950
Barr, C. (ed.) & Carey, H. M., 2015, Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press. 456 p. (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion; no. 73)Research output: Book/Report › Edited book
Methodism in Australia: A History
O'Brien, G. (ed.) & Carey, H. M. (ed.), Apr 2015, Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Ltd. 308 p. (Ashgate Methodist Studies Series)Research output: Book/Report › Edited book
Prizes
Activities
Bentham and Australia
Hilary M Carey (Invited speaker)
11 Apr 2019 → 12 Apr 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Invited talk
Turning Points in Global Mission History (1600-2000)
Hilary M Carey (Invited speaker)
10 Sep 2019 → 12 Sep 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Invited talk
Babylon, the Bible and the Australian Aborigines: Missionary Networks and Theories of Racial Origin in the Nineteenth Century
Hilary M Carey (Speaker)
27 Jun 2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public talk, debate, discussion