Head of Programme
Associate Professor John Stenhouse
History of science, religious history, history of ideas, New Zealand history.
Academic staff
Dr Violeta Gilabert
New Zealand History, Family Emotion and Religion
Dr Miranda Johnson
Pacific and New Zealand history, colonialism, decolonization, and postcolonialism
Professor Angela McCarthy
Scottish, Irish, and New Zealand history and migration; global, transnational and comparative migration and ethnicity; history of madness
Exchange Students Liaison Officer
Professor Brian Moloughney
Chinese history and Literature; comparative historiography; the Chinese diaspora
Academic Subject Adviser (History)
Associate Professor Mark Seymour
European history (19th–20th C), modern Italy (1860s–1970s), emotions, gender, sexuality
Professor Takashi Shogimen
Medieval and early modern European history, history of political thought (European and East Asian)
Associate Professor Alex Trapeznik
Russian history, world history and public history
Postgraduate Co-ordinator (MA and PhD)
Associate Professor Angela Wanhalla
New Zealand, Māori and Comparative indigenous history, colonial history, gender and sexuality
Māori Students’ Liaison Officer
Teaching associates
Professor Sonja Tiernan
Modern Irish history, gender and women’s history, labour and social reform movements, the history of crime and punishment
Eamon Cleary Chair of Irish Studies
Postgraduate students
Emeritus Professors
Professor Judith A Bennett
Professor Barbara Brookes
Professor Tom Brooking
Professor Erik Olssen
Professor Hilary Radner
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Dr Mark Stocker
Professional staff
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