Current postgraduate students
Find out about current postgraduate students' research in the History programme.
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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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Dean Broughton
Dean Broughton is researching the lives of working seafarers in the mid-twentieth century.
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Elizabeth Bowyer
Elizabeth is researching women's interactions with the law and courts in Aotearoa between 1840 and 1920.
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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 researching the History of Indian Food in New Zealand from the 1880’s to the 2000’s.
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Rachel Boddy
Rachel Boddy is uncovering the role of emotions in early eighteenth century celebrity culture.
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Sneha Pal
Sneha is researching the world of the Calcutta leather industry between 1905 and 1996, focussing on the workforce formation.
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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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Tilak Tewari
Tilak is exploring transnational environmental history.
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Will Hansen
Will Hansen is researching Aotearoa's history of queer activism, from the 1960s to the 2010s.
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Yacine Benhalima
Yacine is researching the 'Free French' in the South Pacific and their relations during the Second World War.
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Natalie Looyer
My research investigates how rock climbing emerged as a distinct activity and then grew and developed at pace in Aotearoa, c.1960 to 2020.