2005: PhD University of Canterbury 2001: MA University of Canterbury 1999: BA(Hons) University of Canterbury
Research interests
Angela specialises in Māori, New Zealand, and women's history. Her research focuses on the intersections between gender, race and sexuality in colonial history, with a specific focus on the connections between race and intimacy within and across colonial cultures. In addition to her work on the history of marriage and the family, Angela also has an interest in material and visual culture, particularly the history of photography.
Angela is currently involved in two projects: a book on the social, legal and cultural legacies of the American occupation of New Zealand through the experiences of New Zealand's GI War Brides. She is also working on a collaborative project with Professor Lachy Paterson (Te Tumu) on the Māori Home Front during the Second World War, which is supported by a Marsden Grant.
Cross-cultural encounters, colonialism and race in nineteenth century New Zealand, Māori history, gender, marriage, the family and the history of sexuality.
Publications
Wanhalla, A. (2023). Of love and war: Pacific brides of World War II. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 252p.
Authored Book - Research
Wanhalla, A. (2013). Matters of the heart: A history of interracial marriage in New Zealand. Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press, 231p.
Authored Book - Research
Wanhalla, A., Ryan, L., & Nurka, C. (Eds.). (2023). Aftermaths: Colonialism, violence and memory in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press, 312p.
Edited Book - Research
Paterson, L., & Wanhalla, A. (2017). He Reo Wāhine: Māori women's voices from the nineteenth century. Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press, 372p.
Authored Book - Research
Bennett, J. A., & Wanhalla, A. (Eds.). (2016). Mothers' darlings of the South Pacific: The children of indigenous women and US servicemen, World War II. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, 379p.
Edited Book - Research
Cooper, A., Paterson, L., & Wanhalla, A. (Eds.). (2015). The lives of colonial objects. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press, 368p.
Edited Book - Research
Wanhalla, A., & Paterson, L. (2018). ‘Tangled up’: Intimacy, emotion, and dispossession in colonial New Zealand. In P. Edmonds & A. Nettelbeck (Eds.), Intimacies of violence in the settler colony: Economies of dispossession around the Pacific Rim. (pp. 179-199). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-76231-9_9
Chapter in Book - Research
Wanhalla, A. (2018). Debating Clause 21: ‘Eugenic marriage’ in New Zealand. In D. B. Paul, J. Stenhouse & H. G. Spencer (Eds.), Eugenics at the edges of empire: New Zealand, Australia, Canada and South Africa. (pp. 107-127). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-64686-2
Chapter in Book - Research
Stevens, K., & Wanhalla, A. (2017). Intimate relations: Kinship and the economics of shore whaling in southern New Zealand, 1820-1860. Journal of Pacific History, 52(2), 135-155. doi: 10.1080/00223344.2017.1366820
Journal - Research Article
Brookes, B., McCabe, J., & Wanhalla, A. (Eds.). (2019). Past caring? Women, work and emotion. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press, 286p.
Edited Book - Research
Ruru, J., Wikaira, J., & Wanhalla, A. (2020). Te Takarangi: The significance of curating a sample list of Māori authorised non-fiction books. MAI Journal, 9(2), 111-120. doi: 10.20507/MAIJournal.2020.9.2.2
Journal - Research Article
Wanhalla, A., & Stevens, K. (2019). A ‘class of no political weight’? Interracial marriage, mixed race children and land rights in southern New Zealand, 1840s-1880s. History of the Family, 24(3), 653-673. doi: 10.1080/1081602X.2019.1614474
Journal - Research Article
Ballantyne, T., Paterson, L., & Wanhalla, A. (Eds.). (2020). Indigenous textual cultures: Reading and writing in the age of global empire. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 368p. doi: 10.2307/j.ctv153k5kj
Edited Book - Research
Jenks, T., & Wanhalla, A. (2020). Psychological casualties: War neurosis, rehabilitation, and the family in post-World War II New Zealand. Health & History, 22(2), 1-25. doi: 10.5401/healthhist.22.2.0001
Journal - Research Article
Jones, R. T., & Wanhalla, A. (Eds.). (2022). Across species and cultures: Whales, humans, and Pacific worlds. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, 336p.
Edited Book - Research
Wanhalla, A. (2023). Les Māori, la photographie et le colonialisme en Nouvelle-Zélande. In C. Barthe & A. Lacour (Eds.), Mondes photographiques, histoires des débuts. (pp. 283-287). Arles, France: Actes Sud.
Chapter in Book - Research
Wanhalla, A. (2023). Rethinking gender and identity in Asia and the Pacific. In A. P. Hattori & J. Samson (Eds.), The Cambridge history of the Pacific Ocean (Vol. 2): The Pacific Ocean since 1800. (pp. 206-232). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108226875.012
Chapter in Book - Research