Ailish Wallace-Buckland
Ailish is researching the ways in which womanhood and femininity were discussed and understood in Thursday magazine.
PhD Student in History
School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations
Qualifications
PGDip in Museum and Heritage Practice, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2022
MA in History, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2020
BA(Hons) with First Class Honours in History, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2019
BA in Classical Studies, History, and Italian, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2018
Profile
PhD Working Title: New Zealand ‘womanhood’ in the pages of Thursday magazine (1968-1976)
Ailish’s interest in women’s history, the history of mental health, and understandings of masculinity and femininity in the past led her to her postgraduate research at Te Herenga Waka.
Following a keen interest in the history of the First World War – which led her to be chosen as a Young Ambassador for the Shared Histories programme in 2014 – Ailish pursued an Honours thesis that examined understandings of shell-shock. Her Honours thesis title was: Understanding Effeminacy and Masculinity in Discussions of Shell-Shock in British Medical Culture, 1914-1922. Ailish’s Masters’ research further pursued her interest in masculinity, this time focusing on New Zealand. Her MA was titled: ‘The Menace of Effeminacy’: Medical and Popular Discussions of Masculinity in Interwar New Zealand, c. 1918–1939. Her current PhD research has seen Ailish switch her focus to femininity, as she examines the ways in which Thursday magazine spoke to, and helped to develop, an understanding of what it meant to be a modern young woman in New Zealand during the 1960s-70s.
Supervisors
Professor
School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations
Senior Lecturer
School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations
Publications
‘National Treasures: Airing New Zealand’s History on the Small Screen’, Museum Worlds, Vol.9, Issue 1, 2021, pp.160-166; available at https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/museum-worlds/9/1/armw090113.xml?rskey=7DfeDA&result=1
‘Treasure in the Children’s Toy Box’, Katherine Mansfield House & Garden, 24 August 2021; available at https://www.katherinemansfield.com/article/treasure-in-the-childrens-toy-box
‘On Harry Styles, campness and post-WWI men’s fashion in New Zealand’, The Spinoff, 5 April 2021; available at https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/05-04-2021/the-nz-mens-magazine-that-celebrated-camp-80-years-before-harry-styles/