Geoffrey Rice

Geoff Rice is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Canterbury,where he taught for nearly forty years until his retirement in 2012. He was the founding secretary of the NZHA 1979-81. Though he taught European history, from Medieval and Renaissance to 18th century, his published research has mostly concerned New Zealand. He was general editor for the second edition of the Oxford History of New Zealand (1992) and is best-known for Black November: the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in New Zealand (second edition 2005). He has written over 20 sole-author books and several co-authored works. In retirement he has been working on doctors in 19th century Christchurch. and has self-published five biographies and two smaller studies. He was appointed ONZM in 2021 for services to historical research and tertiary education.