Head of Programme
Professor Mark Seymour
Academic Subject Adviser (History)
European history (19th–20th C), modern Italy (1860s–1970s), emotions, gender, sexuality
Academic staff
Professor Tony Ballantyne FRSNZ
Modern British Empire, colonial knowledge, 19th-century cultural and intellectual life in NZ, missionaries
Associate Professor Miranda Johnson
Pacific Students' Liaison Officer
Postgraduate Co-ordinator (MA and PhD)
Pacific and New Zealand history, colonialism, decolonisation, and postcolonialism
Dr Claire Macindoe
Postdoctoral Fellow
History of Medicine and Public Health, histories of dissent against health advice, and early broadcasting history
Professor Angela McCarthy
Scottish, Irish, and New Zealand history and migration; global, transnational and comparative migration and ethnicity; history of madness
Professor Takashi Shogimen
Medieval and early modern European history, history of political thought (European and East Asian)
Associate Professor Frances Steel
Pacific history, New Zealand history, Oceanic history, colonialism, mobilities, labour, technology, commodities
Associate Professor John Stenhouse
History of science, religious history, history of ideas, New Zealand history
Professor Angela Wanhalla
Academic Subject Adviser (History)
Māori Students' Liaison Officer
New Zealand, Māori and Comparative indigenous history, colonial history, gender and sexuality
Postgraduate students
Emeritus Professors
- Professor Judith A Bennett
- Professor Barbara Brookes
- Professor Tom Brooking
- Professor Brian Moloughney
- Professor Erik Olssen
- Professor Hilary Radner
Professional staff
Sandra Burgess, Administrator
Tel +64 3 479 8606
Email history@otago.ac.nz