Head of Programme
Professor Mark Seymour
European history (19th–20th C), modern Italy (1860s–1970s), emotions, gender, sexuality
Academic staff
Associate Professor Miranda Johnson
Pacific and New Zealand history, colonialism, decolonization, and postcolonialism
Professor Angela McCarthy
Māori Students’ Liaison Officer
Pacific Students’ Liaison Officer
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
Associate Professor Alex Trapeznik
Academic Subject Adviser (History)
Russian history, world history and public history
Professor Angela Wanhalla
Postgraduate Co-ordinator (MA and PhD)
New Zealand, Māori and Comparative indigenous history, colonial history, gender and sexuality
Postdoctoral researchers
Dr Sarah Christie
Te Hau Kāinga Project Postdoctoral Fellow
New Zealand history, labour history, women's history and the histories of youth, leisure and consumption
Dr Neil Vallelly
Rutherford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow
The history of capitalism/neoliberalism, border regimes, and migrant detention in Aotearoa and beyond
Teaching associates
Professor Sonja Tiernan
Eamon Cleary Chair of Irish Studies
Modern Irish history, gender and women’s history, labour and social reform movements, the history of crime and punishment
Postgraduate students
Emeritus Professors
Professor Judith A Bennett
Professor Barbara Brookes
Professor Tom Brooking
Professor Brian Moloughney
Professor Erik Olssen
Professor Hilary Radner
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Dr Mark Stocker
Professional staff
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