Nat Cutter is Mary Lugton Postdoctoral Fellow and Assistant Lecturer in History at the University of Melbourne. His postdoctoral project focuses on the tactics used by Maghrebi merchants, politicians, and corsairs to exploit Mediterranean trade, c.1675-1750, but he is more broadly interested in British-Maghrebi relations, cross-cultural engagement, social networking, media and print representations, diplomacy, religion, digital humanities and piracy. His first book, Britain and the Ottoman Maghreb, 1662-1712: Merchants, Consuls, and Cultural Exchange, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2026, and a co-authored book with Tyne Daile Sumner and Rachel Fensham Cultural Data: The Intimate Analytics of Digital Collections, will be published by Routledge in 2026.