Head of Programme
Associate Professor Frances Steel
Academic Subject Adviser (History)
Pacific history, New Zealand history, Oceanic history, colonialism, mobilities, labour, technology, commodities
Academic staff
Professor Tony Ballantyne FRSNZ
Academic Subject Adviser (History)
Māori Students' Liaison Officer
Pacific Students' Liaison Officer
Modern British Empire, colonial knowledge, 19th-century cultural and intellectual life in NZ, missionaries
Associate Professor Miranda Johnson
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 Mark Seymour
European history (19th–20th C), modern Italy (1860s–1970s), emotions, gender, sexuality
Professor Takashi Shogimen
Exchange Adviser (History)
Medieval and early modern European history, history of political thought (European and East Asian)
Professor John Stenhouse
History of science, religious history, history of ideas, New Zealand history
Professor Angela Wanhalla
Academic Subject Adviser (History - Semester 2 only)
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