Ngāi Te Ruahikihiki, Ngāi Tahu
Contact details
Room 2S4, Arts 1 (Burns) Building
Tel +64 3 479 8462
Email angela.wanhalla@otago.ac.nz
Academic qualifications
2005: PhD University of Canterbury
2001: MA University of Canterbury
1999: BA(Hons) University of Canterbury
Research interests
Angela specialises in Māori, New Zealand, and women’s history. Her research focuses on the intersections between gender, race and sexuality in colonial history, with a specific focus on the connections between race and intimacy within and across colonial cultures. In addition to her work on the history of marriage and the family, Angela also has an interest in material and visual culture, particularly the history of photography.
Angela is currently involved in two projects: a book on the social, legal and cultural legacies of the American occupation of New Zealand through the experiences of New Zealand's GI War Brides. She is also working on a collaborative project with Professor Lachy Paterson (Te Tumu) on the Māori Home Front during the Second World War, which is supported by a Marsden Grant.
Read more about the Māori Home Front project
Courses taught
- HIST 107 New Zealand in the World from the 18th Century
- HIST 242 Histories of Crime and Punishment
- HIST 246 Activist Histories: Contesting Settler Colonialism
- HIST 353 Practising History
Areas of research supervision
Cross-cultural encounters, colonialism and race in nineteenth century New Zealand, Māori history, gender, marriage, the family and the history of sexuality.
Publications
Wanhalla, A. (2013). Matters of the heart: A history of interracial marriage in New Zealand. Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press, 231p.
Paterson, L., & Wanhalla, A. (2017). He Reo Wāhine: Māori women's voices from the nineteenth century. Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press, 372p.
Bennett, J. A., & Wanhalla, A. (Eds.). (2016). Mothers' darlings of the South Pacific: The children of indigenous women and US servicemen, World War II. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, 379p.
Cooper, A., Paterson, L., & Wanhalla, A. (Eds.). (2015). The lives of colonial objects. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press, 368p.
Wanhalla, A. (2018). Indigenous women, marriage and colonial mobility. In R. Standfield (Ed.), Indigenous mobilities: Across and beyond the Antipodes. (pp. 209-231). Canberra, Australia: Australia National University Press. doi: 10.22459/IM.06.2018
Wanhalla, A. (2013). Matters of the heart: A history of interracial marriage in New Zealand. Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press, 231p.
Authored Book - Research
Paterson, L., & Wanhalla, A. (2017). He Reo Wāhine: Māori women's voices from the nineteenth century. Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press, 372p.
Authored Book - Research
Bennett, J. A., & Wanhalla, A. (Eds.). (2016). Mothers' darlings of the South Pacific: The children of indigenous women and US servicemen, World War II. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, 379p.
Edited Book - Research
Cooper, A., Paterson, L., & Wanhalla, A. (Eds.). (2015). The lives of colonial objects. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press, 368p.
Edited Book - Research
Wanhalla, A. (2018). Indigenous women, marriage and colonial mobility. In R. Standfield (Ed.), Indigenous mobilities: Across and beyond the Antipodes. (pp. 209-231). Canberra, Australia: Australia National University Press. doi: 10.22459/IM.06.2018
Chapter in Book - Research
Wanhalla, A., & Paterson, L. (2018). ‘Tangled up’: Intimacy, emotion, and dispossession in colonial New Zealand. In P. Edmonds & A. Nettelbeck (Eds.), Intimacies of violence in the settler colony: Economies of dispossession around the Pacific Rim. (pp. 179-199). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-76231-9_9
Chapter in Book - Research
Wanhalla, A. (2011). The ‘bickerings’ of the ‘Mangungu Brethren’: Talk, tales and rumour in early New Zealand. Journal of New Zealand Studies, 12, 13-28.
Journal - Research Article
Wanhalla, A. (2015). Living on the rivers' edge at the Taieri Native Reserve. In Z. Laidlaw & A. Lester (Eds.), Indigenous communities and settler colonialism: Land holding, loss and survival in an interconnected world. (pp. 138-157). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/9781137452368
Chapter in Book - Research
Wanhalla, A. (2018). Debating Clause 21: ‘Eugenic marriage’ in New Zealand. In D. B. Paul, J. Stenhouse & H. G. Spencer (Eds.), Eugenics at the edges of empire: New Zealand, Australia, Canada and South Africa. (pp. 107-127). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-64686-2
Chapter in Book - Research
Stevens, K., & Wanhalla, A. (2017). Intimate relations: Kinship and the economics of shore whaling in southern New Zealand, 1820-1860. Journal of Pacific History, 52(2), 135-155. doi: 10.1080/00223344.2017.1366820
Journal - Research Article
Brookes, B., McCabe, J., & Wanhalla, A. (Eds.). (2019). Past caring? Women, work and emotion. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press, 286p.
Edited Book - Research
Ruru, J., Wikaira, J., & Wanhalla, A. (2020). Te Takarangi: The significance of curating a sample list of Māori authorised non-fiction books. MAI Journal, 9(2), 111-120. doi: 10.20507/MAIJournal.2020.9.2.2
Journal - Research Article
Wanhalla, A., & Stevens, K. (2019). A ‘class of no political weight’? Interracial marriage, mixed race children and land rights in southern New Zealand, 1840s-1880s. History of the Family, 24(3), 653-673. doi: 10.1080/1081602X.2019.1614474
Journal - Research Article
Wanhalla, A. (2019). “Modernizing” Māori marriage in New Zealand. Journal of Religious History, 43(2), 217-233. doi: 10.1111/1467-9809.12581
Journal - Research Article
Fraser, S. & Wanhalla, A. (2021, January). An invisible history: Wāhine Māori in the Air Force during World War II. Auckland War Memorial Museum: Tāmaki Paenga Hira: Online Cenotaph. Retrieved from https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/features/wahine-maori
Other Research Output
Ballantyne, T., Paterson, L., & Wanhalla, A. (Eds.). (2020). Indigenous textual cultures: Reading and writing in the age of global empire. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 368p. doi: 10.2307/j.ctv153k5kj
Edited Book - Research
Jenks, T., & Wanhalla, A. (2020). Psychological casualties: War neurosis, rehabilitation, and the family in post-World War II New Zealand. Health & History, 22(2), 1-25. doi: 10.5401/healthhist.22.2.0001
Journal - Research Article
Ruru, J., Wanhalla, A., & Wikaira, J. (2020). Read our words: An anti-racist reading list for New Zealanders. The Spinoff, (15 June). Retrieved from https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/15-06-2020/read-our-words-an-anti-racist-reading-list-for-new-zealanders/
Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles
Stevens, K., & Wanhalla, A. (2019). Māori women in Southern New Zealand's shore-whaling world. RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment & Society, 2019(5), 23-30. doi: 10.5282/rcc/8954
Journal - Research Article
Jones, R. T., & Wanhalla, A. (Eds.). (2022). Across species and cultures: Whales, humans, and Pacific worlds. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press, 336p.
Edited Book - Research
Stevens, K., & Wanhalla, A. (2022). Māori women and shore whaling in southern New Zealand. In R. T. Jones & A. Wanhalla (Eds.), Across species and cultures: Whales, humans, and Pacific worlds. (pp. 9-29). Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
