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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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)

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

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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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