School of Humanities

School of Humanities

Dr Jo DiamondDr Jo Diamond

Position

Senior Lecturer in Art History and Theory

Qualifications

BA (Waikato), BA Hons (UWA), Grad. Dip ILS (Curtin), PhD (ANU)

Room

Room 406, level 4, History building

Contact Details

Phone: +64 3 366 7001
Internal Phone: 8155
Email: jo.diamond@canterbury.ac.nz
2010 Office hours: Thursday 1-2pm

Postal address:
School of Humanities
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch
New Zealand

Background

Whare,2002
Rachel Rakena
Mihi Aroha, from Whare, 2002, installation
Courtesy the artist and SoFA Gallery
Jo's professional background is based in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. It includes administrative public service, such as work with Indigenous Australians for the Commonwealth Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs. Jo has also served as a qualified reference librarian in many subject areas for the Library and Information Service of Western Australia in its State Library. She regularly participated in various culture- based consultancies for universities, museums and art galleries, as well as a law firm, in Sydney, Perth and Canberra.

She was the Fulbright New Zealand lecturer at Georgetown University in Washington DC for the Spring Semester in 2008.

 

 

Undergraduate Courses

Graduate Courses

For up-to-date details of Jo Diamond's research interests and publications, please visit her UC Research Profile.

 

Research

  • The Art of Rua Pick. A book publication project
  • Revaluing raranga: Maori women and weaving - a continuation of doctoral research into contemporary Maori women weavers and their work in Trans-Tasman Maori cultural discourses
  • Australian marae: migration, Maori and places to stand in Australia
  • He rau kahukura: a multicoloured plait - Maori weaving and green politics, this is a curatorial project, potentially leading to an exhibition in 2012
  • Possum Dreaming/Possum eradication. Animal representation and Trans-Tasman Indigenous Cultures
  • Nga Taonga Tuituinga a Nga Tupuna: Maori clothing forms and technologies since the 1820s – in collaboration with Roger Fyfe, Canterbury Museum (at planning stage)
  • Pacific Rastafar-eye: Maori and Pacific Rastafarianism and reggal.

Research Interests

  • Maori language, history, cultural activities and political action especially Ngapuhi – Northern Aotearoa New Zealand – ethnographic and archival research
  • Indigenous Australian cultures and histories especially Ngungar, Western Australia, Koori and Ngunnawal, South East Australia and Sydney region – ethnographic and archival research
  • Art practice
  • Writing especially about art, socio-political issues current and historical
  • Cultural Property
  • Tourism
  • Education within and beyond the Academy including student support
  • Pacific epistemologies, history, art and politics.
  • Environmental issues
  • Gender relations

School Administration

  • Maori and Pasifika Liaison
  • International Students/Student Exchanges

Recent Publications

1999 Hine-Titama: Maori Contributions to Feminist Discourses and Identity Politics.
Australian Journal of Social Issues Vol. 34 No. 4 November 1999.  Pp. 310-317
2001 Mauri Ora! Robyn Kahukiwa: Art and life.
In Robyn Kahukiwa: mauri ora! Robyn Kahukiwa and Giles Peterson Eds. Rotorua, New Zealand: Mauri Tu Ltd. Pp. 8-11
2002 Robyn Kahukiwa: Nurturing Maori Identity.
Art Asia Pacific Quarterly Issue 23 Pp.76-81

Conference Papers:

  • 1999 Fifth Women in Archaeology Conference. University of New South Wales Sydney. Drs Ann McGrath and Laurajane Smith, conveners. Publication of conference papers forthcoming

  • 2001 Association of Pacific Rim Universities Postgraduate Conference. University of Auckland New Zealand http://www.usc.edu/ext_relations/news_service/apruwww/DocStuConf.html

Under Auckland conference and theme of ‘Identity’.