Head of Department
Professor Tony Ballantyne FRSNZ
South Asian and Colonial history
Academic Staff
Professor Judith A Bennett
Pacific history, Environmental history, Australia's and New Zealand's relations with the Pacific Islands
Pacific Island Students' Liaison Officer
Professor Barbara Brookes
New Zealand history, women's history and the history of medicine
Seminar Coordinator
Professor Tom Brooking
New Zealand, American, Australian and Celtic history, environmental history
Dr Judith Collard
Gender Issues in Contemporary and Twentieth-Century Art; Medieval English Art; Medieval Manuscripts
Programme Coordinator of Art History & Theory
Dr Russell Johnson
U.S. social, cultural, and political history
Undergraduate Advisor of Studies
Dr Peter Leech
Theory and philosophy of art, Italian and French painting
Professor Angela McCarthy
Scottish and Irish History
Postgraduate Coordinator (MA & PhD)
Professor Hilary Radner
Film and Media Studies
Programme Coordinator of Visual Culture
Dr Mark Seymour
European history (19th-20th C), modern Italy, gender and emotions
Coordinator of Tutors. Chair Assessment Committee
Associate Professor Takashi Shogimen
Medieval and early modern European history, history of political thought (European and East Asian)
Associate Dean of Research (Humanities) and Chair of the Research Committee
Associate Professor John Stenhouse
Intellectual history, religious history, and New Zealand history
Dr Michael Stevens
Māori history, New Zealand history, Maritime history
Māori Students' Liaison Officer
Associate Professor Mark Stocker
Western sculpture, New Zealand art, numismatics (coin and medal design), 19th and 20th century British art and design
Associate Professor Alex Trapeznik
Russian history, world history and public history
Associate Dean of Graduate Studies (Humanities)
Dr Angela Wanhalla
New Zealand, Māori and Comparative indigenous history, colonial history, gender and sexuality
Chair of Publicity and External Relations Committee. Ethics Officer
Dr Vanessa Ward
East Asian History, Japanese History and Publishing History
Exchange Students, History and Art History & Theory Students Association
Associate Professor Erika Wolf
Modern & contemporary art, visual culture, photography, and Russian culture
Teaching Associates
Dr David Bell
Japanese Art
Professor Michael Reilly - (Te Tumu - School of Maori Studies)
Representations of Indigenous Histories in New Zealand and the Pacific
Postgraduate Students
Visitors
Associate Professor Craig Robertson
Northeastern University, Boston
Visiting February-June 2013
Room 2C11A
Emeritus Professors
Professor Erik Olssen
Research Fellow
Dr Ali Clarke
University of Otago 150th Anniversary History
General Staff
Mr Peter Cadogan
Administrative Assistant
Mrs Sue Lang
Department Administrator
Mrs Nicola Elliott
Administrative Assistant
Disabled Students Liaison
