Angela Wanhalla

Contact Details

Photographer: Neil Pardington

Room 2S4a, Arts 1 (Burns) Building
Tel 64 3 479 8462
Email angela.wanhalla@otago.ac.nz
Teaching: HIST 353, HIST 327

Academic Qualifications

1999: BA (Hons) University of Canterbury
2001: MA University of Canterbury
2004: PhD University of Canterbury

Research Interests

Angela specializes in the histories of cultural encounter in New Zealand's colonial past. Her research focuses on gender, race and colonialism in nineteenth century New Zealand, the indigenous history of the North American West, and the history of intimacy, particularly interracial relationships and hybridity.

If you are looking for further information on the Mothers' Darling research project, or you are looking for your American serviceman father, please follow this link: http://www.otago.ac.nz/usfathers/

Select Publications

• Erika Wolf and Angela Wanhalla, eds. Early New Zealand Photography: Images and Texts, (Dunedin: University of Otago Press, in press).
• The meaning of “colour”: photography and portraiture, 1889-1904, in Early New Zealand Photography: Images and Texts, edited by Erika Wolf and Angela Wanhalla, (Dunedin: Otago University Press, in press).
• “Interracial sexual violence in 1860s New Zealand.” New Zealand Journal of History vol. 45, no. 1, (April 2011): 71-84.
• Katie Pickles and Angela Wanhalla, “Embodying the Colonial Encounter: Explaining New Zealand’s ‘Grace Darling’, Huria Matenga.” Gender & History, vol. 22, no. 2, (August 2010): 361-381.
• “The Politics of ‘periodical counting’: Race, place and identity in southern New Zealand” in Making Space: Settler-colonial perspectives on land, place and identity, edited by Penelope Edmonds and Tracey Banivanua Mar, 198-217. (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
• “The ‘natives uncivilize me’: missionaries and interracial intimacy in early New Zealand” in Missions, Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Exchange, edited by Patricia Grimshaw and Andrew May, 24-36. (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2010).
• In/visible sight: the mixed descent families of southern New Zealand, (Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 2009).
• “Women ‘living across the line’: Intermarriage on the Canadian Prairies and in Southern New Zealand, 1870-1900.” Ethnohistory, vol. 55, no. 1, (2008): 29-50.
• “'one white man i like very much': Intermarriage and the cultural encounter in southern New Zealand, 1829-1850.” Journal of Women's History, vol. 20, no. 2, (2008): 34-56.
• “'To better the breed of men': Women and Eugenics in New Zealand, 1900-1935.” Women's History Review, vol. 16, no. 2, (April 2007): 163-182.

Recent and Upcoming Conference Papers and Presentations

• River communities and colonial life, Otago: the making of a colonial culture symposium, Hocken Collections, University of Otago, 16-17 February 2011.
• The “bickerings” of the “Mangungu Brethren”: talk, tales and rumour in the Hokianga, Beyond Representation: Cultural Histories of Colonial New Zealand, Te Tumu: School of M?ori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies, University of Otago, 17-19 November 2010.
• An Intimate History of Violence, Carl Smith Medal Public Lecture, University of Otago, 18 June 2009

Current Research Projects

• Mothers' Darlings: children of indigenous women and American servicemen in the South Pacific and New Zealand (Marsden Grant, 2010-2012) led by Prof. Judy Bennett
• A history of intermarriage in New Zealand (Fast Start Marsden, 2008-2009), to be published with Auckland University Press in late 2012
• Maori women's writing's from the colonial archives (with Dr. Lachy Paterson, Te Tumu)

Areas of Research Supervision

Cross-cultural encounters, colonialism and race in nineteenth century New Zealand, comparative indigenous history, gender and the history of sexuality.

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