History Research
History was second equal in the College of Arts 2006 PBRF (performance-based research funding) results with a quality score of 4.9.
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History Staff Research Fields
- Dr Jane Buckingham
Asian history, health history, social history of medicine, South Asian history. UC Research Profile
- Associate Professor Peter Field
American history, cultural history, intellectual history. UC Research Profile
- Dr Chris Jones
Chris is a medieval historian whose research explores the development of political thought and concepts of identity, with a particular focus upon France in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. UC Research Profile
- Professor Philippa Mein Smith
New Zealand history, Australian history, transnational and comparative history. UC Research Profile
David is a modern European historian with particular research interests in the history of modern Britain, the First World War, and ideas of patriotism and national identity. UC Research Profile
Canadian history, colonialism, feminist history, New Zealand history, women's history. UC Research Profile
- Associate Professor Te Maire Tau (Ngāi Tahu Research Centre)
Maori and indigenous development, oral traditions, mythology and tribal histories. UC Research Profile
Heather is a modern European historian specializing in German history. Her research interests include the histories of psychology and psychiatry, particularly forensic psychology, and the histories of spiritualism, occultism & psychical research/parapsychology. UC Research Profile
Adjuncts
Professor Atholl Anderson
Atholl's current interests are the prehistoric colonisation of the Indo-Pacific region, bioarchaeological evidence of the Austronesian expansion, ethnohistory of the southern Maori, and the global origins and development of seafaring.
Emeritus Professor John Cookson
John was appointed to the University of Canterbury in 1968 and retired as Professor of History in January 2007. John has published 'The Canterbury Association' for the online Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and 'Religion at the Churches in Canterbury to 1914' in Godly Places: Religion in the Canterbury Settler Society, Anglican Historical Society, Occasional Papers, No. 9 Auckland, 2007; 'Local Government in New Zealand to c.1930' in New Zealand Journal of History, Oct. 2007 and 'Interpreting the Experience of British Soldiers During the Napoleonic Wars' in Soldiers, Citizens, and Civilians: Experiences and Perceptions of the French Wars, 1790-1820 (ed. Alan Forrest, Karen Hagemann, and Jane Rendall), Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2008.
Emeritus Professor Miles Fairburn
Miles's activities include publishing ‘Is there a case for New Zealand exceptionalism?', in Disputed Histories: Imagining New Zealand's Pasts, T. Ballantyne and B. Moloughney (eds), Otago University Press, Dunedin, 2006. A shorter version (edited by Philippa Mein Smith and Peter Hempenstall) appeared in Thesis Eleven, Feb 2008.
Emeritus Professor Peter Hempenstall
Peter's areas are Australian history, biography, colonialism, methodology and historiography, Pacific history. His latest publication is P. Mein Smith, P. Hempenstall and S. Goldfinch, Remaking the Tasman World, Canterbury University Press, 2008.
Emeritus Professor W David McIntyre, MBE
David McIntyre's research interests are
The Commonwealth, Decolonization, and Strategic Problems in Asia-Pacific. He is the author of a dozen books on Commonwealth and New Zealand history from The Imperial Frontier in the Tropics (1967) and Colonies into Commonwealth (1966) to British Decolonization 1946-97 (1998) and A Guide to the Contemporary Commonwealth (2001). Contributed Pacific and Commonwealth chapters to the Oxford History of the British Empire (1999), and the Pacific War and Anzus entries in the Oxford Companion to New Zealand Military History (2001). At present working on 'Dominion Status', and 'Britain's disengagement from the Pacific'.
Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Rice, FRHistS
Geoffrey Rice has published on European diplomacy in the eighteenth century and on social history of medicine in New Zealand. His research interests have shifted from eighteenth century to the social history of medicine and New Zealand social history and biography. Has published over forty articles and reviews in academic journals. His first monograph was Black November: the 1918 Influenza Epidemic in New Zealand (Allen and Unwin, 1988). Has also published several articles on aspects of the 1918 influenza in NZ. His recent publications include All Fall Down: Christchurch's Lost Chimneys (Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2011) and
The Life of the Fourth Earl of Rochford (1717-1781): Eighteenth-century Anglo-Dutch Courtier, Diplomat and Statesman (Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2010).
Dr Ann Parsonson
Dr Ann Parsonson taught in the Department of History at Canterbury from 1978-2004. She has been a member of the Waitangi Tribunal since 2001 and has been the historian member on the Turanga (Gisborne), Urewera, and Central North Island tribunal panels. Her research interests and publications are in the fields of Maori history and New Zealand history.