2002

Thomas, Sarah, ed. (2002) The encounter, 1802: art of the Flinders and Baudin voyages. Adelaide, Australia: Art Gallery of South Australia. ISBN 0730830055.

2009

Thomas, Sarah (2009) Slavery, a "Scandal to Christian Nations": Charles Darwin, Augustus Earle and the compass of morality. In: Hoorn, J. (ed.) Reframing Darwin: Evolution and Art in Australia. Carlton, Australia: Melbourne University Publishing. ISBN 9780522856842.

15 July 2009

Thomas, Sarah (2009) The Wanderer, the Slave and the Aboriginal: Augustus Earle in Rio de Janeiro and Sydney in the 1820s. In: Anderson, J. (ed.) Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration and Convergence. Carlton, Australia: Miegunyah Press. ISBN 9780522857108.

2011

Thomas, Sarah (2011) "On the Spot": travelling artists and Abolitionism, 1770-1830. Atlantic Studies 8 (2), pp. 213-232. ISSN 1478-8810.

January 2013

Thomas, Sarah (2013) The spectre of empire in the British art museum. Museum History Journal 6 (1), pp. 105-121. ISSN 1936-9816.

November 2013

Thomas, Sarah (2013) Violence and memory: slavery in the museum. In: Rycroft, D.J. (ed.) World Art and the Legacies of Colonial Violence. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, pp. 113-132. ISBN 9781409455882.

April 2014

Thomas, Sarah (2014) The artist travels: Augustus Earle at sea. In: Cusack, T. (ed.) Framing the Ocean: Envisaging The Sea As A Social Space. Basingstoke, UK: Ashgate, pp. 71-84. ISBN 9781409465683.

November 2014

Thomas, Sarah (2014) Book review: Marcus Wood, "Black Milk: Imagining Slavery in the Visual Cultures of Brazil and America" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013). Journal of American Studies 48 (04), pp. 1103-1104. ISSN 0021-8758.

1 April 2015

Thomas, Sarah (2015) Allegorizing extinction: Humboldt, Darwin and the valedictory image. In: Brauer, Fae and Keshavjee, Serena (eds.) Picturing Evolution and Extinction. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 9781443872539.

December 2016

Thomas, Sarah (2016) Creating a national identity: Australia's Impressionist landscapes. In: Thomas, Sarah and Riopelle, C. and Bonyhady, T. and Goudie, A. and Tunnicliffe, W. and Taylor, A.J. (eds.) Australia's Impressionists. London, UK: Yale University Press and The National Gallery Press, pp. 43-50. ISBN 9781857096125.

23 February 2018

Thomas, Sarah (2018) The Legacies of Bernard Smith. Essays on Australian Art, History and Cultural Politics. By Jaynie Anderson, Christopher R. Marshall and Andrew Yip, editor(s). 370 pp. incl. 44 col. + 5 b. & w. ills. (Power Publications in association with the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2016), A$39.99. 9780994306432 (paperback). [Book Review] (Submitted)

September 2018

Thomas, Sarah (2018) Envisaging a future for slavery: Agostino Brunias and the imperial politics of labor and reproduction. Eighteenth-Century Studies 52 (1), pp. 115-133. ISSN 0013-2586.

15 October 2019

Thomas, Sarah (2019) Witnessing slavery: art and travel in the age of abolition. London, UK: Yale University Press. ISBN 9781913107055. (In Press)

June 2020

Thomas, Sarah (2020) The art of travel in the name of science: mobility and erasure in the art of Flinders’s Australian voyage, 1801-03. In: Lambert, D. and Merriman, P. (eds.) Empire and Mobility in the Long Nineteenth Century. Studies in Imperialism. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526126382. (In Press)

2021

Thomas, Sarah (2021) ‘La esclavitud en Rio de Janeiro a través de la mirada europea: Rugendas, Earle y Debret en los albores de la independencia de Brasil’. In: Diener, P. and Costa, F. (eds.) Rugendas: El Artista Viajero. Santiago, Chile: Ediciones Biblioteca Nacional de Chile, pp. 49-71. ISBN 9789562445160.

13 May 2021

Thomas, Sarah and Eaton, N. (2021) Swollen detail, or what a vessel might give: Agostino Brunias and the visual and material culture of colonial Dominica. Atlantic Studies , ISSN 1478-8810.

25 August 2021

Thomas, Sarah and Senior, Emily (2021) Colonial ways of seeing: Caribbean visual cultures 1750–1900. [Editorial/Introduction] (In Press)

December 2021

Thomas, Sarah (2021) The dark side of the landscape: Kehinde Wiley and the Black Sublime. In: UNSPECIFIED (ed.) Kehinde Wiley at the National Gallery: The Prelude. London, UK: National Gallery Company Ltd, pp. 65-77. ISBN 9781857096774.

2022

Thomas, Sarah (2022) 'The Illustrated Slave: Empathy, Graphic Narrative, and the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement, 1800–1852' / 'Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery: A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World'. By Martha J. Cutter, Athens, The University of George Press, 2017, xviii. 291pp., $44.95 and $34.95, ISBN 9-780-8203-5875-8by Dale W. Tomich, Rafael de Bivar Marquese, Reinaldo Runes Monzote, Carlo Venegas Fornias, Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 2021, xii. 161pp., $95.00 and $29.95, ISBN 978-1-4696-6312-8 and 978-1-4696-6311-1. [Book Review]

Thomas, Sarah (2022) Swollen detail, or what a vessel might give: Agostino Brunias and the visual and material culture of colonial Dominica. Atlantic Studies 19 (1), pp. 60-85. ISSN 1478-8810.

1 June 2022

Thomas, Sarah (2022) The specter of slavery in the British Art Museum. American Art 36 (2), ISSN 1073-9300.

29 June 2022

Thomas, Sarah (2022) Art history and racial Capitalism. Book review, 'Black Bodies, White Gold' by Anna Arabinden-Kesson. [Book Review] (In Press)