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Posted on October 28 2025
Guosheng Xie 谢国升 is from Guangdong, China. He studied ancient Chinese history in Chengdu and Shanghai for seven years. With a strong interest in Pacific history, he applied for the doctoral program at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington. His doctoral research examines the historical development of Chinese labour and enterprise in Aotearoa New Zealand from the 1860s
Posted on April 24 2022
When I tell people that I am a genealogist, one of the first questions is how far back have you got? For me it’s not how far back I have got, but what I have discovered about my family and the connections; like the moment of touching the document that my five x great grandparents had signed in the early
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
Phoebe H. Li (李海蓉）holds a PhD from the University of Auckland and was a research fellow at Tsinghua University (清华大学) in Beijing. She is currently an independent historian. Her research interests include late Qing politics, the Chinese Diaspora in Australasia, and mass media. She was the principal curator of the photographic exhibition “Recollections of A Distant Shore: a Photographic Introduction
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
Following a journalism career in Nelson I elected to focus on what I loved writing about – history. Several books written to mark school anniversaries followed, along with a commission to research and write history stories for The Prow http://www.theprow.org.nz/. Meet You At The Church Steps, an illustrated history of a city landmark, followed. A Nelson Provincial Museum commission led
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
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