Andrew Lorey

Currently enrolled as a PhD student in History at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka University of Otago, I hold A.B. (Harvard College, 2013) and M.Phil (Trinity College, University of Cambridge, 2017) degrees in Archaeology and have spent much of the past 15 years working in collections management and/or research roles at museums and research libraries including: Uare Taoka o Hākena Hocken Collections (Dunedin, Aotearoa); McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research (Cambridge, UK); Wesley House (Cambridge, UK); Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum (Honolulu, Hawai’i); and Harvard Map Collection (Cambridge, Mass., USA).

My research interests range from the historical archaeology of cross-cultural encounter (previous fieldwork in Peru and Vanuatu) and object-oriented museum ethnography (previous research in England, Hawai’i, and Aotearoa) to histories of entrepreneurship and industrial product design in Aotearoa New Zealand. Past research outcomes include a co-authored book chapter within an edited volume, contributions to a multi-author peer-reviewed journal article, and, most recently, a single-authored article discussing some of the earliest photographic activity in Te Rua-o-Te-Moko Fiordland. Between 2022 and 2023, I also fulfilled two freelance editing contracts with Thames & Hudson’s (UK) W.W. Norton imprint to support the publication of two internationally-renowned archaeological textbooks.

My PhD research is funded by a University of Otago Doctoral Scholarship and explores how historians can use corporate archives and domestically-produced material products to reconstruct messy networks of commercial production and consumption to better understand how urban and household materiality has impacted historical processes of identity formation.