
PhD Candidate
Nicole Vaughan
MA Edinburgh; MLitt St Andrews; MPhil HKU
Nicole Vaughan is a PhD candidate in the Department of History interested in the intersections of space and the senses. Her current research examines the transnational production of race and space in nineteenth-century Hong Kong and San Francisco and the role nuisance played in these processes.

RESEARCH
Research Interests
- Hong Kong
- Chinese diaspora (US)
- Imperialism
- Travel writing
- Nuisance

PUBLICATIONS
Articles
Vaughan, L Nicole. “Happy Valley Heterotopia: Representing Colonial Order in a Hong Kong ‘Other Space.’” Social Transformations in Chinese Societies 19, no. 1 (2023): 29–40.
Selected Conference Papers
“European Loafers and the Nuisance of White Vagrancy in Nineteenth-Century Hong Kong,” 13th Spring History Symposium, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, 3–4 May 2024
“Seeing Nuisance: Regulating the Visibility of Vice in Nineteenth-Century Hong Kong,” Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies World Congress, Singapore, 19–22 June 2023
“‘Intolerable Nuisance’: Nerves, Noisy Trades, and the Production of Space in Hong Kong, 1900-1910,” 12th Spring History Symposium, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, 4-5 May 2023
“Nuisance and Civilisation: Regulating ‘Chinese Noise’ in Nineteenth Century Hong Kong,” Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, Riverside, California, 24-26 March 2023