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Contact detailsTrapeznik_Alex 2013 186

Room 2S12, Arts 1 (Burns) Building
Tel +64 3 479 8641
Email alexander.trapeznik@otago.ac.nz

Academic qualifications

1995: PhD (ANU)
1988: MA (Tas)
1981: DipHum (La Trobe)
1979: GDipMusStud (PCAE)
1978: BA (La Trobe)

Research interests

Associate Professor Alexander Trapeznik teaches courses in Russian History, World History and Public History. His research interests include the role of revolutionary ideology, social and political movements and class conflict in nineteenth and twentieth century Russia. In relation to New Cold War History his work in this area seeks to reinterpret the Comintern's position in an international and national context. Finally, in the burgeoning field of Public History he is particularly interested in historical and cultural heritage management issues in New Zealand.

Alex's latest book, "Dunedin's Warehouse Precinct" is now available. Dunedin's warehouse district is a newly rediscovered treasure and this richly illustrated, freely downloadable e-book explores the history of this fascinating part of Dunedin.


Courses taught

Research profile

  • Associate Editor (History) New Zealand Slavonic Journal
  • Editorial Advisory Board Public History Review

Publications

Trapeznik, A. (2023). A new zeal for history: Public history in New Zealand. Public History Review, 30, 79-88. doi: 10.5130/phrj.v30i0.8380
Journal - Research Article
Trapeznik, A. (2022). Dismissing the staff: Domestic servants and a historic house in Dunedin, New Zealand. Journal of New Zealand Studies, 34, 36-48. doi: 10.26686/jnzs.iNS34.7668
Journal - Research Article
Trapeznik, A. (2020). 'The madding wheeles of brazen chariots rag'd; dire was the noise': Motoring and the environment in New Zealand before the second world war. International Review of Environmental History, 6(1), 31-49. doi: 10.22459/IREH.06.01.2020.02
Journal - Research Article
Trapeznik, A., & Cummins, N. (2019, October). HUMS301/401 internship practicum. Verbal presentation at the Teaching and Learning Symposium: Pride in the Humanities, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Trapeznik, A. (2019). "To make the crooked straight": The Crippled Children Society in southern New Zealand, 1935-2007. Journal of New Zealand Studies, 28, 98-115. doi: 10.26686/jnzs.v0iNS28.5423
Journal - Research Article
Trapeznik, A. (2014). Dunedin's warehouse precinct. Dunedin, New Zealand: Genre Books, 187p.
Authored Book - Research
Trapeznik, A. (2007). V. M. Chernov: Theorist, leader, politician. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 185p.
Authored Book - Research
Ashton, P., & Trapeznik, A. (Eds.). (2019). What is public history globally? Working with the past in the present. London, UK: Bloomsbury, 392p.
Edited Book - Research
Trapeznik, A., & Fox, A. (Eds.). (2004). Lenin's legacy down under: New Zealand's cold war. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 248p.
Edited Book - Research
Trapeznik, A. (Ed.). (2000). Common Ground? Heritage and Public Places in New Zealand. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 170p.
Edited Book - Research
Trapeznik, A. (2019). Public history in New Zealand: From Treaty to Te Papa. In P. Ashton & A. Trapeznik (Eds.), What is public history globally? Working with the past in the present. (pp. 107-120). London, UK: Bloomsbury.
Chapter in Book - Research
Trapeznik, A., & Ashton, P. (2019). Introduction: The public turn: History today. In P. Ashton & A. Trapeznik (Eds.), What is public history globally? Working with the past in the present. (pp. 1-8). London, UK: Bloomsbury.
Chapter in Book - Research
Trapeznik, A. (2017). New Zealand, local history in. In A. H. Wilson (Ed.), Encyclopedia of local history. (3rd ed.) (pp. 505-507). Lanham, MD: Rowman & LIttlefield. [Encyclopaedia/Dictionary Entry].
Chapter in Book - Research
Trapeznik, A. (2004). 'Grandfather, parents and little brother': A study of centre-periphery relations. In A. Trapeznik & A. Fox (Eds.), Lenin's legacy down under: New Zealand's cold war. (pp. 57-72). Dunedin: University of Otago Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Trapeznik, A., & Fox, A. (2004). Introduction: Lenin's legacy down under. In A. Trapeznik & A. Fox (Eds.), Lenin's legacy down under: New Zealand's cold war. (pp. 9-12). Dunedin: University of Otago Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
McLean, G., & Trapeznik, A. (2000). Public history, heritage and place. In A. Trapeznik (Ed.), Common Ground? Heritage and Public Places in New Zealand. (pp. 13-24). Dunedin: University of Otago Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Trapeznik, A. (2000). Introduction. In A. Trapeznik (Ed.), Common Ground? Heritage and Public Places in New Zealand. (pp. 9-12). Dunedin: University of Otago Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Trapeznik, A. (1996). Albert Francis Grenda. In J. Ritchie (Ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography. (pp. 329). Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Trapeznik, A. (2023). A new zeal for history: Public history in New Zealand. Public History Review, 30, 79-88. doi: 10.5130/phrj.v30i0.8380
Journal - Research Article
Trapeznik, A. (2022). Dismissing the staff: Domestic servants and a historic house in Dunedin, New Zealand. Journal of New Zealand Studies, 34, 36-48. doi: 10.26686/jnzs.iNS34.7668
Journal - Research Article
Trapeznik, A. (2020). 'The madding wheeles of brazen chariots rag'd; dire was the noise': Motoring and the environment in New Zealand before the second world war. International Review of Environmental History, 6(1), 31-49. doi: 10.22459/IREH.06.01.2020.02
Journal - Research Article
Trapeznik, A. (2019). "To make the crooked straight": The Crippled Children Society in southern New Zealand, 1935-2007. Journal of New Zealand Studies, 28, 98-115. doi: 10.26686/jnzs.v0iNS28.5423
Journal - Research Article
Trapeznik, A. (2018). The motoring lobby in New Zealand, 1898-1930. Journal of New Zealand Studies, 27, 130-146. doi: 10.26686/jnzs.v0iNS27.5180
Journal - Research Article
Trapeznik, A., & Gee, A. (2017). Accommodating the motor car: Dunedin, New Zealand, 1901-30. Journal of Transport History, 38(2), 213-231. doi: 10.1177/0022526616682367
Journal - Research Article
Trapeznik, A. (2016). A brief history of Dunedin jewellers in New Zealand since the Gold Rush. Jewellery Studies, 3, 3-12.
Journal - Research Article
Trapeznik, A., & Gee, A. (2016). Laying the Victorians to rest: Funerals, memorials, and the funeral business in nineteenth-century Otago. Australian Economic History Review, 56(3), 317-336. doi: 10.1111/aehr.12096
Journal - Research Article
Trapeznik, A. (2014). The manufacturing process of samovar production in Tula. International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology, 84(2), 274-293.
Journal - Research Article
Trapeznik, A., & Gee, A. (2013). 'Each in his narrow cell for ever laid': Dunedin's Southern Cemetery and its New Zealand counterparts. Public History Review, 20, 42-67.
Journal - Research Article
Neill, L., Duerr, E., & Trapeznik, A. (2012). The contested White Lady: A critique of New Zealand cultural heritage politics. Public History Review, 19, 43-62.
Journal - Research Article
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