Current postgraduate students
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Ailish Wallace-Buckland
Ailish is researching the boundaries of femininity and womanhood in Aotearoa/New Zealand between the 1920s-1986.
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Aaron Jackson
Aaron is researching how late 20th century NZ foreign policy grew out of a deeply embedded grassroots reaction to French nuclear testing and American overreach.
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Anna Czerwinska
Anna returned to Wellington for her PhD in 2023. Her thesis focuses on the imagination of Central and Eastern Europe in the British Dominions during the Great War.
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Dean Broughton
Dean Broughton is researching the lives of working seafarers in the mid-twentieth century.
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Guosheng Xie
Guosheng is researching the impact of Chinese labour and enterprise in New Zealand from the 1860s to the 1920s.
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Hannah Clark
Hannah is researching the experiences of children of Holocaust survivors in New Zealand through oral history.
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Leanne Miranda
Leanne Miranda is tracing the History of Indian Food in New Zealand from the 1940s to the 1990s.
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Natalie Looyer
Natalie's research investigates how rock climbing emerged as a distinct activity and then grew and developed at pace in Aotearoa, c.1960 to 2020.
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Noah Szajowitz
Noah is researching the experiences of New Zealand’s Home Guard and Women’s Auxiliary Services during the Second World War.
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Nour Hassan
Nour is researching how historical narratives can be weaponised and used to obstruct social progress.
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Yacine Benhalima
Yacine is researching the 'Free French' in the South Pacific and their relations during the Second World War.
