Professor Philippa Mein Smith
Position
Professor of History
Associate Head, School of Humanities
History Honours Co-ordinator
Other positions
Director, NZ Australia Research Centre
College of Arts Representative, Macmillan Brown Centre Advisory Board
Member, Arts Management Committee
Qualifications
BCom (Senior Scholar), MA(Hons) (Canterbury), PhD (ANU)
Room
Room 320, History Building
Contact Details
Phone: (03) 364-2462
Internal Phone: 6462
philippa.meinsmith@canterbury.ac.nz
Postal address:
History Department
School of Humanities
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch 8140
New Zealand
Undergraduate Courses
Graduate Courses
For up-to-date details of Philippa Mein Smith's research interests and publications, please visit her UC Spark .
Research Interests
NZ, Australia and the Asia-Pacific; Australasia; the Tasman world; how NZ history connects to other histories. Postgraduate thesis supervisor on interdisciplinary, New Zealand and trans-Tasman topics.
Philippa is an editorial board member for the Australasian section of History Compass.
Publications
Books
P Mein Smith, A Concise History of New Zealand, 2nd edn, Cambridge Concise Histories Series (2012).
P Mein Smith, P Hempenstall and S Goldfinch, Remaking the Tasman World (Canterbury University Press, December 2008).
P Mein Smith, A Concise History of New Zealand, Cambridge Concise Histories Series (Cambridge and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Donald Denoon and Philippa Mein Smith, with Marivic Wyndham, A History of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, Blackwell History of the World Series (Oxford and Mass., Blackwell, 2000).
P Mein Smith, Mothers and King Baby: Infant Survival and Welfare in an Imperial World: Australia 1880-1950 (Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1997).
P Mein Smith, Maternity in Dispute: New Zealand (Wellington, Historical Branch, 1986).
Recent Book Chapters
P Mein Smith, 'The Evolution of the Australia-New Zealand Relationship', in C. Morris, J. Boston and P. Butler (eds), Reconstituting the Constitution, Heidelberg, Springer, 2011, ch. 20. DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-21572-8.
P Mein Smith, The Tasman World in G Byrnes (ed), The New Oxford History of New Zealand, Oxford & Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 13.
P Mein Smith, Retracing Australasia: The history of a British idea in G Davison, P Jalland, and W Prest (eds), Body and Mind: Essays in honour of F B Smith, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2009, ch.7.Recent Articles
S Hicks, B Storey and P Mein Smith, Against all odds: the brith of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1955-1958, Polar Record, early publication Dec. 2011: 1-12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0032247411000660.
P Mein Smith, Mapping Australasia, History Compass, 7, 2009.
Guest editor, special issue of Thesis Eleven, no. 92, February 2008.
P Mein Smith, Did Muldoon really 'go too slowly' with CER? NZ Journal of History, 14, 2, 2007: 161-179.
S Goldfinch and P Mein Smith, Compulsory Arbitration and the Australasian Model of State Development: Policy Transfer, Learning and Innovation, Journal of Policy History, 18, 4, 2006: 419-445.
for more information, see NZ Australia Research Centre website.