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Lachy Paterson imageBA, PGDipArts (Otago), RSA/Cambridge CELTA, PhD (Otago)

Contact

Email lachy.paterson@otago.ac.nz

Research


Much of Lachy's primary research involves niupepa (Māori-language newspapers) and other texts of the mid-nineteenth and early-twentieth century. From these and other sources he explores the social, political and religious discourses promulgated within these publications, and has published widely on this topic.

His most recent monograph (co-written with Professor Angela Wanhalla) is He Reo Wāhine: Māori Women's Voices from the Nineteenth Century (Auckland University Press, 2017). More recently he co-edited (with Professor Tony Ballantyne and Professor Angela Wanhalla) Indigenous Textual Cultures: Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire (Duke University Press, 2020).

Lachy is currently working with Angela Wanhalla on “Te Hau Kāinga: Histories and Legacies of the Māori Home Front, 1939-45”, supported by the Royal Society Te Aparangi's Marsden Fund. This project explores the impact of war at home on ordinary Māori families and communities, and on Māori society more broadly, during and after the conflict.

Supervision

To date Lachy has supervised postgraduate students to completion for 6 PhD and 2 Master of Arts theses, 6 Master of Indigenous Studies and 1 Master of Education research reports; and one BA(Hons) and one PGDipArts dissertation. His students have included various topics relating to aspects of Māori or Indigenous history, theology, education, language and culture. Lachy is happy to supervise students interested in historical or contemporary issues, including research written in te reo Māori.

Current

  • Megan Pōtiki, PhD, Historic Language Loss at Ōtākou

Completed

  • Keomailani Eaton, MIndS (2021), Aloha ʻĀina: Land, language and Kanaka ʻŌiwi Identity
  • Matiu Payne, PhD (2020), Tamaiti whāngai in a Ngāti Mutunga context
  • Kelli Te Maiharoa, PhD (2020), Māori peace-making traditions (submitted)
  • Tania Oxenham, MEd (2017), Te Awa: an essay-writing model for first year degree Māori students in tertiary studies
  • John Birnie, PhD (2017), Learner-centredness in the teaching of te reo Māori
  • Gianna Leoni, PhD (2016), Mā te taki te kāhui ka tau. Te waiaro ki te reo Māori i ngā hinonga kāwanatanga. (Use of te reo Māori in government departments. Submitted in Māori.)
  • Kate Timms, PhD (2013), Language policies for te reo Māori in New Zealand and Gaelic in Scotland
  • Matiu Payne, MIndS (2013), Case Studies: Whāngai adoptions and the Native Land Court
  • Michelia Ward, MIndS (2012), New Zealand Trade Aid and the Quecha of Peru
  • Alexander Stevens, MIndS (2012), Impact of mispronunciation of Māori names
  • Eilis Haden, MIndS (2010), Youth work in Derry, Northern Ireland
  • Hauiti Hākopa, PhD (2011), Indigenous digital mapping
  • Hone Te Rire, MIndS (2009), The impact of Christianity on Māori identity
  • Craig Hall, PGDipArts (2008), Māori-language teaching pedagogies
  • Jacinta Paranihi, BA(Hons) (2008), Case study: Post-contact hapū formation
  • Emily Owen, MA (Massey, 2008), Early New Zealand Whaling
  • Vic Evans, MA (Massey, 2007), Studio pottery movement in Nelson, 1956–1976

Research Grants

  • A.C. Wanhalla and L. Paterson (2018) Marsden Fund Te Hau Kāinga: Histories and Legacies of the Māori Home Front, 1939-1945 ($746,000)
  • Paterson, L. (2008). University of Otago Research Grant: $7382. Project title: Women Workers of the Presbyterian Māori Mission.
  • Paterson, L. (2006). Massey University Research Grant: $4950. Project title: Presbyterian Deaconesses within Māori Communities.

Distinctions

  • 1999: University of Otago Prestigious Scholarship
  • 1997: Sir Peter Buck (Te Rangihiroa) Prize in Maori Studies (200-level)
  • 1997: Sir Peter Buck (Te Rangihiroa) Prize in Maori Studies (300-level)

Publications

Paterson, L. (2023). Race and revolution: Haiti and the Kīngitanga, 1863. In A. Wanhalla, L. Ryan & C. Nurka (Eds.), Aftermaths: Colonialism, violence and memory in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. (pp. 157-166). Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Paterson, L., & Warbrick, P. (Eds.). (2023). Journal of New Zealand Studies, 35(1) [Special Issue: He Tuhinga Tuku Iho: Texts, contexts, resonances]. [Guest Editors].
Other - Edited Journal
Paterson, L. (2023). Ngā ritenga pai: Māori and Modernity in the 1850s. Journal of New Zealand Studies, 35, 22-35. doi: 10.26686/jnzs.iNS35.8113
Journal - Research Article
Paterson, L., & Warbrick, P. (2023). Introduction. Journal of New Zealand Studies, 35, 1-6. doi: 10.26686/jnzs.iNS35.8127
Journal - Research Other
Paterson, L. (2022, December). Now that Vienna has fallen.... Te Hau Kāinga: The Māori Home Front. Retrieved from https://www.maorihomefront.nz/en/whanau-stories/now-that-vienna-has-fallen
Other Research Output
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
Paterson, L. (2006). Colonial discourses: Niupepa Māori 1855-1863. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press, 250p.
Authored Book - Research
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
Reilly, M., Duncan, S., Leoni, G., Paterson, L., Carter, L., Rātima, M., & Rewi, P. (Eds.). (2018). Te Kōparapara: An introduction to the Māori world. Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press, 484p.
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
Morrison, H., Paterson, L., Knowles, B., & Rae, M. (Eds.). (2012). Mana Māori and Christianity. Wellington, New Zealand: Huia, 356p.
Edited Book - Research
Watson, J., & Paterson, L. (Eds.). (2011). A great New Zealand prime minister? Reappraising William Ferguson Massey. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press, 176p.
Edited Book - Research
Paterson, L. (2023). Race and revolution: Haiti and the Kīngitanga, 1863. In A. Wanhalla, L. Ryan & C. Nurka (Eds.), Aftermaths: Colonialism, violence and memory in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. (pp. 157-166). Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Ballantyne, T., & Paterson, L. (2020). Indigenous textual cultures, the politics of difference, and the dynamism of practice. In T. Ballantyne, L. Paterson & A. Wanhalla (Eds.), Indigenous textual cultures: Reading and writing in the age of global empire. (pp. 1-28). Durham, NC: Duke University Press. doi: 10.2307/j.ctv153k5kj.4
Chapter in Book - Research
Paterson, L. (2020). Māori literacy practices in colonial New Zealand. In T. Ballantyne, L. Paterson & A. Wanhalla (Eds.), Indigenous textual cultures: Reading and writing in the age of global empire. (pp. 80-98). Durham, NC: Duke University Press. doi: 10.2307/j.ctv153k5kj.7
Chapter in Book - Research
Paterson, L. (2018). Pāora Tūhaere's voyage to Rarotonga. In R. Standfield (Ed.), Indigenous mobilities: Across and beyond the Antipodes. (pp. 233-254). Canberra, Australia: Australia National University Press. doi: 10.22459/IM.06.2018
Chapter in Book - Research
Paterson, L. (2018). Piki, Heke: Opportunity and disappointment, 1840-1863. In M. Reilly, S. Duncan, G. Leoni, L. Paterson, L. Carter, M. Rātima & P. Rewi (Eds.), Te Kōparapara: An introduction to the Māori world. (pp. 194-208). Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press.
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
Cooper, A., Paterson, L., & Wanhalla, A. (2015). Introduction: A scheme of things. In A. Cooper, L. Paterson & A. Wanhalla (Eds.), The lives of colonial objects. (pp. 13-19). Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Paterson, L. (2015). 'A sparrow alone upon the house top': The Te Pihoihoi Press. In A. Cooper, L. Paterson & A. Wanhalla (Eds.), The lives of colonial objects. (pp. 117-121). Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Paterson, L. (2013). Te Hokioi and the legitimization of the Māori nation. In B. Hokowhitu & V. Devdas (Eds.), The fourth eye: Māori media in Aotearoa New Zealand. (pp. 124-142). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Paterson, L. (2012). Pakeha or English? Māori understandings of Englishness in the colonial period. In L. Fraser & A. McCarthy (Eds.), Far from 'Home': The English in New Zealand. (pp. 123-143). Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Paterson, L. (2012). The rise and fall of women field workers within the Presbyterian Māori mission, 1907-1970. In H. Morrison, L. Paterson, B. Knowles & M. Rae (Eds.), Mana Māori and Christianity. (pp. 179-204). Wellington, New Zealand: Huia.
Chapter in Book - Research
Stevens, S. M., & Paterson, L. (2011). Nga Tamatoa and the rhetoric of brown power: Re-situating collective rhetorics in global colonialism. In D. Payne & D. Desser (Eds.), Teaching writing in globalization: Remapping disciplinary works. (pp. 17-38). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Chapter in Book - Research
Watson, J., & Paterson, L. (2011). Introduction. In J. Watson & L. Paterson (Eds.), A great New Zealand prime minster? Reappraising William Ferguson Massey. (pp. 7-14). Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Stenhouse, J., & Paterson, L. (2004). Ngā poropiti me ngā Hāhi: Prophets and the curches. In T. M. Ka'ai, J. C. Moorfield, M. P. J. Reilly & S. Mosley (Eds.), Ki te Whaiao: An introduction to Māori culture and society. (pp. 171-180). Auckland, New Zealand: Pearson Education New Zealand.
Chapter in Book - Research
Moorfield, J. C., & Paterson, L. (2002). Loanwords used in Māori-language newspapers. In J. Curnow, N. Hopa & J. McRae (Eds.), Rere Atu, Taku Manu! Discovering history, language and politics in the Maori-language newspapers. (1 ed.) (pp. 60-77). Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Paterson, L. (2002). Kiri Mā, Kiri Mangu: The Terminology of race and civilisation in the mid-nineteenth century Maori-language newspapers. In J. Curnow, N. Hepa & J. McRae (Eds.), Rere Atu, Taku Manu! Discovering History, Language and Politics in the Maori-Language Newspapers. (1 ed.) (pp. 78-97). Auckland: Auckland University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Paterson, L. (2018). Introduction to Part Two. In M. Reilly, S. Duncan, G. Leoni, L. Paterson, L. Carter, M. Rātima & P. Rewi (Eds.), Te Kōparapara: An introduction to the Māori world. (pp. 155-157). Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press.
Chapter in Book - Other
Paterson, L. (2023). Ngā ritenga pai: Māori and Modernity in the 1850s. Journal of New Zealand Studies, 35, 22-35. doi: 10.26686/jnzs.iNS35.8113
Journal - Research Article
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