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Posted on January 30 2025
I am a self-employed registered architect (FNZIA) with over 20 years’ experience delivering a range of building projects across the Waikato and surrounding areas. More recently my work has been in the design and documentation of multi-level, medium- density residential housing. I have experience teaching at tertiary level at Wintec (2006), Unitec (2015), and Open Polytechnic (2015-16). I have researched
Posted on September 20 2023
I am Elizabeth (Libby). I’ve completed my MA and PhD in History at Te Herenga Waka Victoria – University of Wellington. In 2024 I received a Judith Binney Writing Award which I am using to adapt my PhD thesis, ‘Women Contracting in Law c. 1840–1920: Gender and Settler Colonialism in the Courts of Aotearoa New Zealand’, for publication. I have
Posted on September 21 2021
Art History Ph.D. Montana Reference & Anthology Award (2007) Society of Authors Best Non-Fiction Award (2007) Member NZ Conservator of Cultural Materials Area of expertise: Early NZ-made furniture, 19th-century design, cabinet making, manufacturing, domestic interiors, furniture retailing, image reproduction, printing, copyright infringement. Furniture restorer, conservator, heritage building interiors. Author: Furniture of the New Zealand Colonial Era 1830-1900 (2006); Patterns –
Posted on September 21 2021
My research background is in migration history with a quantitative focus. My PhD was published as From Alba to Aotearoa: Profiling New Zealand’s Scots migrants 1840-1920 by Otago University Press in 2015. My primary research at present is an examination of the imperial troops stationed in New Zealand in the 1860s through a migration history lens, as part of Professor
Posted on September 21 2021
Independent Scholar, working on a place-based and cross-cultural history of the 1885 tour of New Zealand by Mary Clement Leavitt, world missionary for the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (see work in progress at hollingsworth.wordpress.com). Women’s history offers an interesting lens by which to view mainstream narratives, and critical inquiry provides new insights into our everyday stories of news and community-based
Posted on September 21 2021
Matt, president of PHANZA since January 2025, is a senior historian at Te Tari Whakatau – the Office of Treaty Settlements and Takutai Moana where his work focuses on developing redress for Māori groups settling historic Treaty of Waitangi claims against the Crown. Beginning in 2021, he designed and facilitated courses for public servants about the history of the Treaty
Posted on September 21 2021
Malcolm McKinnon is an adjunct associate professor in the School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations. He taught New Zealand history and international relations in the History Department at Victoria University of Wellington between 1979 and 1990; he has taught courses and supervised research in the School over the last fifteen years. He published a landmark study of
Posted on September 21 2021
As a historian, researcher, writer, literary scholar, linguist and translator, my work focuses on the tensions at the intersections (both geographical and textual) of contact between Indigenous and settler populations in the colonial and postcolonial Francophone and Anglophone worlds. I am especially interested in creolisation and anti-colonial resistance and my writing reflects critically on trans-imperial networks, horizontal mobilities, slavery and forced
Posted on September 21 2021
Posted on September 21 2021
MA (distinction), Dip Arts, BA Director Art & Heritage Services – art historian, curator, lecturer and writer. PUBLICATION Elizabeth Lissaman: New Zealand’s Pioneer Studio Potter, Rim Books (2019). Commissioned by Marlborough Museum. CONTRIBUTOR TO PUBLICATIONS INCLUDES ‘George Miller (1872-1949): Acclaimed Stonemason and Sculptor’, Nelson Historical Society Journal, vol 9, no 6 (2026) ‘Frankel, Lady Elaine Margaret (Margaret) (1902–1997)’, Australian Dictionary
Posted on September 21 2021
Hello. I am a Dunedin-based historian but tend to travel to where the work takes me. I have an MA in history from Otago University and a Diploma in Journalism from Canterbury University. I am the author of more than 30 non-fiction books on New Zealand history, biography, culture and society. I am always looking for interesting new projects, large
Posted on September 21 2021
My research background is in social history, specifically deathways and social attitudes towards disposal of the dead in New Zealand and across the Anglosphere. I specialise in recovering the lives, and deaths, of everyday people otherwise lost in the archives. My PhD ‘Burning God’s Own: A Social History of Modern Cremation in New Zealand 1874-1946’ (2023) represents the first social
Posted on September 21 2021
I am an experienced heritage consultant with a nation-wide practice that specialises in cultural heritage identification, assessment and policy advice. With a PhD in art and architectural history from the University of Canterbury, I lectured at the University of Waikato for ten years before establishing Heritage Consultancy Services in 2006. My work ranges from large-scale district plan review inputs for
Posted on September 21 2021
Dr Aleisha Ward is a Professional Teaching Fellow, Music, at the University of Auckland specialising in Aotearoa New Zealand music history. She is also a freelance historian, writer, editor/copyeditor, and public speaker. Aleisha’s particular area of research is the history of jazz in Aotearoa. She is an award winning jazz historian and music writer who was a recipient of the
Posted on September 10 2021
I completed my MA in History (Distinction) at Massey University with my thesis on the life of Lady Anna Stout and I am currently preparing the manuscript for the full-length biography of Lady Stout. I have taught and tutored New Zealand history courses at Massey University and presented papers at numerous conferences. My paper entitled A Colonial for the Cause
Posted on August 27 2021
I am an historian who has worked mainly in historic heritage since I graduated from university in 1983. I worked for the Historic Places Trust (now Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga) and the Department of Conservation in the 1980s and early 1990s, between which I completed a Diploma of Journalism. I have had my own consultancy since 1997, working for