Nicholas Thomas

Nicholas Jeremy Thomas FBA (born 21 April 1960) is an Australian anthropologist, Professor of Historical Anthropology, and Director, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, since 2006; Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, since 2007. He was elected to the British Academy in 2005.

He was awarded the 2010 Wolfson History Prize for his book Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire.

• Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire (2012) ISBN 978-0300180565
• Rauru: Tene Waitere, Maori Carving, Colonial History (2008), with Mark Adams
• Hiapo: Past and present in Niuean barkcloth (2005), with John Pule, ISBN 1 877372 00 5
• Discoveries: the Voyages of Captain James Cook (2003)
• Possessions: Indigenous Art/Colonial Culture (1999)
• Oceanic Art (World of Art) (1995), ISBN 978-0500202814
• Entangled Objects (1991)