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Areas of expertise: the Spanish Empire; empire and colonialism; migration; urban history; early modern Atlantic and Pacific worlds

HDR Supervisor accreditation status: Provisional

Email: Kristie.Flannery@acu.edu.au

Location: ACU Melbourne Campus

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-9087-3048 

Dr Kristie Patricia Flannery is a historian of the global Spanish empire and colonialism in the early modern world with a focus on the Pacific. She was born and raised in Sydney, completing her undergraduate degree at the University of Sydney, before pursuing an MA and PhD in history at the University of Texas at Austin. Kristie joined ACU after a taking up a Killam postdoctoral fellowship at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

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Books

• Flannery, Kristie Patricia. Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024.
• Flannery, Kristie Patricia, Renisa Mawani, Mikki Stelder (eds), Oceans as Archives. Routledge (2025)

Special Issues

• Quigley, Killian, Kate Fullagar, and Kristie Patricia Flannery, eds. “Marine Worlds of the Long Eighteenth Century: Selected Papers from the Eighteenth David Nichol Smith Seminar, December 2022.” Special issue Eighteenth-Century Life 50, no. 1 (2026). ISSN 0098-2601

Journal Articles

• Killian Quigley, Kate Fullagar, and Kristie Flannery, “Introduction: Marine Materialities, Oceanic Humanities, and Eighteenth-Century Seas,”Eighteenth-Century Life 50, no. 1 (2026): 1-15
• Flannery, Kristie Patricia. "Colonial Latin Asia? The Case for Incorporating the Philippines and the Spanish Pacific into Colonial Latin American Studies." Colonial Latin American Review Vol 32 (2023): 235-242 https://doi.org/10.1080/10609164.2023.2205233
• “Can the Devil Cross the Deep Blue Sea? Imagining The Spanish Pacific and Vast Early America from Below.” The William and Mary Quarterly 3d ser., 79, no. 1 (Jan. 2022): 31–60 muse.jhu.edu/article/847657
• Winner of the Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI) Article Prize
• Winner of the LASA Mexico Section’s Best Article in the Humanities Prize
• Winner of the Lester J. Cappon Prize, awarded annually by the journal’s editorial board to the best article published in the William & Mary Quarterly in the previous year
• Winner of the Paul Vanderwood Prize, for a distinguished article on any significant aspect of Latin American history by a member of the CLAH, not appearing in the Hispanic American Historical Review or The Americas
• “The Transimperial Biography of Cesar Falliet: A Life Between Global Cities.” Urban History (2020): 479-497 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963926820000474
• Flannery, Kristie Patricia and Guillermo Ruíz-Stovel. “The Loyal Foreign Merchant Captain. Thome Gapsar de León and the Making of Manila’s Intra-Asian Connections.” Vergueta, Vol 20 (2020): 189-215
• Flannery, Kristie Patricia. “Battlefield Diplomacy and Empire-building in the Early Modern Pacific World.” Itinerario, Vol. 40, No. 3 (2016): 467–488
• “Prohibited Games, Prohibited People: Race, Gambling, and Segregation in Early Modern Manila,” Newberry Essays in Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Vol. 8 (2014), 81-92

Chapters in edited volumes

• Flannery, Kristie Patricia, Renisaw Mawani, Mikki Stelder, “Undercurrents: Towards Ocean Justice” in Oceans as Archives, edited by Kristie Patricia Flannery, Renisaw Mawani, Mikki Stelder, 1-21. New York: Routledge, 2025.
• Flannery, Kristie Patricia. “Seven Years’ War,” in The Cambridge History of the American Revolution Vol 1, edited by Marjoleine Kars,, Michael A. McDonnell, and Andrew M. Schocket, 76-96 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026.
• Flannery, Kristie Patricia and Norah L. A. Gharala, “Slavery between the Indian Ocean World and the Spanish Pacific,” in Everyday Life in the Philippines, 1657–1699: Selections from the Manuscripts of Juan de Paz, edited by Norah L. A. Gharala, Marya Svetlana T. Camacho, and Juan O. Mesquida 205-222. Palgrave McMillan, 2025.
• Flannery, Kristie Patricia, "The Seven Years’ War in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires." Chap. 26 In The Oxford Handbook of the Seven Years' War, edited by Trevor Burnard, Emma Hart and Marie Houllemare, 471–486. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024.
• "Other Agents of Empire in the Spanish Pacific World (1755)." in The Spanish Pacific, 1521-1815, Volume 2: A Reader of Primary Sources, edited by Christina Lee and Ricardo Padrón, 65-72. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024.
• "Scorched Earth: War and Losss in Manila and Luzon, 1762-1764." In The 1762 British Invasion of Spanish-Ruled Philippines: Beyond Imperial and National Imaginaries, edited by Maria Cristina Martinez Juan. Scorched Earth, 177-192. Philippines: National Historical Commission of the Philippines, 2024.
• "The Seven Years’ War and the Globalization of Anglo-Iberian Imperial Entanglement: The View from Manila." In The Seven Years’ War and the Globalization of Anglo-Iberian Imperial Entanglement: The View from Manila, 236-254. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018.
• "A Era Global Das Revoluções E Seus Descontentamento." In América Na Primeira Modernidade, edited by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Luiz Estevam de Oliveira, 279-317. Curitiba: Editora Prismas, 2018.

Other scholarly publications

• Flannery, Kristie Patricia. “Researching Colonial Otherness through illustrations in The Boxer Codex” in Interrogating Colonial Documents and Narratives (Marlborough: AM, 2024)
• “The Spanish Pacific.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Latin American Studies. Ed. Ben Vinson. New York: Oxford University Press 2024.

Exhibitions

• Co-curator, Exhibition-in-progress at the Shipwrecks Gallery, Western Australian Museum (2023-2025)
• Co-curator “Acapulco-Manila: The Galleon, Asia, and Latin America, 1565–1815”. Benson Latin American Collection, Austin (2016); Mexican Consulate in Austin (2018)