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New Zealand Journal of History, 43, 2 (2009)
Research
THESES COMPLETED 2008–2009
The University of Auckland
PhD Attwood, Nina Writing the Prostitute: Representations in
Victorian Britain
Barnes, Felicity
New Zealand’s London: The Metropolis and
New Zealand’s Culture, 1890–1940
Day, Alison
Child Immunisation: Reactions and Responses
to New Zealand Government Policy,
1920–1990
Robinson, Helen
Inventing Traditions in Unsettled Societies:
Historic Commemorations in New Zealand and
Northern Ireland, 1940–1990
Wrapson, Jill
Fluoridation of New Zealand’s Public Water
Supplies: An Historical Investigation into
Societal Attitudes and Concerns, 1950–2008
MA Campbell, Samantha The Biochemical Frontier: An Historical
Investigation into the Emergence and Nature of
Biochemistry in New Zealand
Harper, Courtney
‘The art of eating, has in fact, become a
science’: Dietary Advice from the Interwar
Period to 1960
Lewis, Simon
Majesty Without Power: A Study of Sir Ernest
Satow in the Context of British Diplomatic
Influence in China, 1900–1906
Morten, Helen
The New Zealand Way of Life: The Home in
Post-war New Zealand
Ormond, Barbara The Iconography of Visual Culture and
Pedagogical Approaches to ‘Seeing’: Illustrated
Prints Pertaining to Religious Issues in
England, 1558–1660
Powell, Tobias
New Zealand for God: Conservative
Christianity in New Zealand, 1970–2006
MLitt Schultz, Marianne From the Haka to Dancing with the Stars: New
Zealand Men Dancing, 1905–2005
University of Canterbury
PhD Campbell, Charles Bombay Drought-Relief Policies in the Age of
Reform, 1820–1840
MA Baker, Ruth Relations Between Jewish and Non-Jewish
Germans, 1933–1945: A Case Study in the Use
of Evidence by Historians
Benbow, Hannah-Lee ‘I like New Zealand Best’: London
Correspondents for New Zealand Newspapers,
1884–1942
Harland, Michael From Hubris to Reality: Neoconservatism
and the Bush Doctrine’s Middle East
Democratisation Policies
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Illston, James
McMenamin, Dorothy
‘An Entirely Masculine Activity’?: Women
and War in the High and Late Middle Ages
Reconsidered
Leprosy and Stigma in the South Pacific:
Camaraderie in Isolation
Massey University — Albany
MA Berks, John Crazy in Love: Concepts of Morbid Love in
Western Medicine from 1951 to the Present
Carpenter, Samuel History, Law and Land: The Languages of
Native Policy in New Zealand’s General
Assembly, 1858–62
Rayner, Helen
A Darn Good Hiding or the Naughty Step?
Ideas on Child Discipline in New Zealand,
1890–2008
Massey University — Palmerston North
MA Nielsen-Doesburg, Keryn Insiders and Outsiders: A Social History of
Fishing in the Chatham Islands
University of Otago
PhD Davis, George Twentieth Century Anzac Commemorations in
Australia and New Zealand
Parsons, Gwen
New Zealand Society During the 1920s: The
Impact of the Great War
Standfield, Rachel Race in the Tasman World
MA Lubcke, Antje Photographs from the New Zealand Foreign
Mission Fields
Victoria University of Wellington
PhD Bueltmann, Tanja ‘Brither Scots shoulder tae shoulder’: Ethnic
Identity, Culture and Associationism Among
the Scots in New Zealand to 1930
Francis, Andrew
‘To be Truly British we must be Anti-German’:
Patriotism, Citizenship and Anti-Alienism in
New Zealand During the Great War
MA Cheer, Karen Irish Maritime Trade in the Eighteenth Century:
A Study in Patterns of Trade, Market Structures
and Merchant Communities
Johnston, Susie
Ritchie, Samuel
Rodriguez, Vivian
Lighting up: The Social History of Smoking in
New Zealand c.1900–1962
‘[T]he sound of the bell amidst the wilds’:
Evangelical Perceptions of Northern Aotearoa/
New Zealand Māori and the Aboriginal Peoples
of Port Phillip Australia, c.1820s–1840s
Egypt Plantation, the Enslaved Workforce
and Patterns of Runaway and Resistance: An
Analysis Based on Thomas Thistlewood’s
Journal, Jamaica, 1751–1763

RESEARCH
243
Salter, Deborah
Watterson, Craig
The ‘Ugly Sister of Welfare’: Health Care
Rationing in New Zealand, 1968–c.1980
The Development of African History as a
Discipline in the English-Speaking World: A
Study of Academic Infrastructure
University of Waikato
MA Loveridge, Steven ‘Soldiers and Shirkers’: An Analysis of the
Dominant Idea of Service and Conscientious
Objection in New Zealand During the Great
War
RESEARCH ESSAYS/DISSERTATIONS
COMPLETED 2008–2009
Massey University — Palmerston North
Archer, Sandra
New Zealand Perceptions of Small Migrant
Groups from Southeast Asia
Blayney-Jebremovich, Gina How Does the Writing of Past Lives Contribute
to the Understanding of Broader Historical
Issues?
Littlewood, David The Attitudes of the New Zealand Herald, the
Press and Tomorrow Towards British Policies
for Dealing with Nazi Germany’s Expansion
and Prosecuting the War in Europe, 1934–1940
Stevens, Micky
Some Kind of Electricity: Hearts, Minds and
Hydro-Electric Development in New Zealand
THESES IN PROGRESS
The University of Auckland
PhD Ashton, Jennifer A Last Frontier? John Webster and Empire in
Hokianga, 1841–1900
Ballériaux, Catherine Reformation Strategies: Civility, Conversion
and Utopia in Missionary Writings about the
New World, c. 1610–1670
Beaumont, Craig
The Bank of New Zealand in Fiji
Ford, Katrina
The Construction of Germ Theory and
Bacteriology in New Zealand, 1875–1910
Gooder, Claire
Outside the School Gates: Sex Education in
New Zealand, 1939–1985
Harper, Courtney
A Social History of Diabetes in Twentieth-
Century New Zealand
Hawes, Lisa
Kissing Christ: Masculinity and Religious
Experience in the High to Late Medieval
Period
Hoar, Peter
‘In me are sounds embalmed’: Recording
Technologies and Musical Life in New
Zealand, 1880–1949

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Jowitt, Deborah
Hepatitis B: A History of the Social, Ethical and
Medical Issues in New Zealand, 1970–2005
Kaa, Hirini
He Ngakau Hou: Te Haahi Mihinare as a Site of
Maori Cultural Construction, 1945–1990
Laurenson, Helen A Biography of the Queen City: A Social and
Cultural History of Auckland, 1890–1990
McDowell, Tiopira Te Ana o te Raiona: The History of the Maori
Party and an Overview of Maori Engagement
with Parliament and the Maori Seats,
1867–2007
Mönter, Sven
Dr Augustin Krämer: A German Ethnologist in
the Pacific
Richdale, Joanne
A Social History of Abortion in Twentieth-
Century Aotearoa New Zealand
Smith, Michelle
Assessing Gender in the Construction of
Medieval Scottish Identity
Taewa, Nicholas
‘Hope Deferred’: A Study of Cancer in New
Zealand from Bacteriology to Radium,
1882–1939
Whittle, Jo
Electricity and the New Zealand Landscape,
1888–1998
Williams, Melissa Constructions of Maori Community:
Migrations from North Hokianga to Auckland,
1945–1970
MA Adamson, Brodie New Zealand and the Draft: Compulsory
Military Training in the Early Cold War Period,
1945–1959
Gerdelan, Louis
Vision, Rulership and Culture in the Public
Spectacles of Early Modern Italy
Goddard, Karl
The Flushing Incident and British Perspectives
on the Development of Anglo–German Rivalry,
1890–1914
Jordan, Kate
A History of New Zealand Home Gardening,
1945–2000
Munro, Thomas
Representations of Airpower in Britain,
1909–1937
Nelson, Karlin
Missionaries and Natives: Spanish Perceptions
of Indigenous Peoples in the New World
Oakley, Janet
Parent–Child Relations in English Noble
Families, c.1450–1540: Lisle Family Letters
Parfitt, Steven
‘Labour’s Great War’? The Federal Trials of
the First World War and State Repression of
Radical Labour in the United States
Pigott, Justin
Religious Influence and Conflict Between East
and West in the Fifth Century
Slako, Clare
Chautauqua: In the Space Between New
Zealand and the United States
Smits, Shane
With Baseballs and Bayonets: A Socio-
Cultural History of the United States Civil
Administration of the Ryukyu Islands,
1945–1972

RESEARCH
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University of Canterbury
PhD Baird, Rosemary Oral Histories of New Zealand Migration to
and from Australia: Late 1960s to Early 1990s
Bones, Helen
The Duality of Exile: New Zealand Writers
1880–1940
Devonport, Bernadette A History of Accounting Standards in New
Zealand
Stack, John Wayne The New Zealand Army Officer Corps,
1914–1945
Whitcher, Gary
More than Just America: Some New Zealand
Responses to American Culture, 1945–1965
MA Curtis, Robyn Diseases of Confinement: Leprosy and
Syphilis in the Madras Presidency, 1860–1900
Dillon, Helena
Rogernomics and Rupture: The Effects of
Corporatization on Small Town New Zealand
Kamau, Laura-Margaret Maori Sovereignty
McCaffrey, Halie
Michael King’s Approach to New Zealand
Identity
McNaughton, Andrew Assessing Anti-imperialist Thought in Early to
mid Nineteenth-Century Britain
Milne, Anna
Haereticus: The Translation and
Transformation of the Term ‘Heretic’ in
Representations of Frederick II
Searle, Kimberley Myth and Rumour in the First World War
Stedman, Alison
Public Discourse on the Soviet Union in the
1930s and 1940s
Wilson, Rachael
Enlightenment Ideology and the Cold War in
America
Massey University — Albany
PhD Buckley, Barry The Relationship Between the Catholic Church
and the New Zealand State
Derbyshire, Noel The Anglican Church Since 1945
Yuan, Sylvia
The Identity Question of New Zealand
Missionaries in China, 1891–1951
MPhil McDonald, Lynne Methodist Mission on Choiseul in the Solomon
Islands
Taylor, Diane
Bishop Pompallier and Maori and the Return of
Pompallier’s Bones
MA Baron, Patrick Aspects of the Chartist Movement
Tautari, Rowan
Attachment and Belonging in Nineteenth
Century Whananaki
Massey University — Palmerston North
PhD Bell, Rachael National History/National Memory: New
Zealand’s Official Histories of World War II
Dollery, Helen
Voluntary Children’s and Youth Organisations
in Post-World War II New Zealand
Evans, Vic
The Studio Craft Movement in New Zealand

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Hickey, Carina
From Coal Pit to Leather Pit: A Biography of
Robert Semple
Johnson, Linda
Transnational Maori Activism: Generating
Political Space Across Borders, 1945–1990
Meihana, Peter
The Paradox of Maori Privilege
Neill, Carol
New Zealand Trade Development Post World
War II
O’Neill, Jacqui
A Discursive Analysis of Changing
Understandings of Women Victims of Violence
by Intimate Male Partners in New Zealand,
1970–2000
MA Kelly, Kieran Imperialism and the Gulf War
University of Otago
PhD Bateman, Grace Religion in Childhood in Southern Dunedin
Camber, Polly
Westland/Southwestern Oregon, USA
Carr, Sarah
The Lives of Female Prostitutes in Frontier
Mining Society of New Zealand and Canada
Gardiner, Steven
Representations of Dual Maori and Pakeha
Ancestry in Nineteenth Century and Early
Twentieth Century New Zealand
Harland, Jill
Immigration Study of Orcadians and Shetland
Islanders to Colonial Settlements
McLane, Ryan Impact of Quarantine Measures 1918–1919
Influenza Epidemic in New Zealand, Fiji, New
Caledonia and American Samoa
Milnes, John
World War I Effect on Three Dunedin Christian
Denominations
Moffat, Susan
History of New Zealand School Dental Service
Palenski, Ron
National Identity in Four Part Harmony
Stevens, Michael
The Anatomy of a Fish: Kai Tahu and Colonial
Science in Murihiku
Storey, Kenton
New Zealand Wars in Comparative Colonial
Context
Sullivan, Kim
Caledonian and Other Scottish-Oriented
Friendly Societies in New Zealand, Canada and
Scotland During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Centuries
MA Cappie, Scott The Arabic Influence on Late Medieval
European Political Thought
Gleeson, Claire
Charles Begg & Co Ltd
Knewstubb, Elspeth Gender, Ethnicity and Madness in Nineteenth-
Century Dunedin’s Private Asylum
MacArthur, Nic
The Wealth of Gold Miners at Gabriel’s Gully
Sunitsch, Trudi
The 1938 Social Security Act
Wilson, Simon
Kempthorne, Prosser and Co
Victoria University of Wellington
PhD Ahmed, Sabbaq Religious Ideology and Muslim Militancy in
South Asia: Selected Case Studies
Brown, Hayley
Unloosing the Marriage Bond: Divorce in New
Zealand Society, 1898 to the 1950s

RESEARCH
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Bunce, Jo
The Contribution of James Macandrew to
Otago Provincial History
Cooper, Andrew
Allies or Antagonists?: US–Iran Relations, the
‘Oil Shock’, and the Nixon, Ford and Carter
Administrations, 1973–79
Fisher, Martin
The Politics of Reconciliation in New Zealand,
Canada, Australia and Alaska: The First
Decade of Treaty of Waitangi Settlements in
International Perspective, 1988–1999
Horn, Gerard
The Scale and Characteristics of Irish
Protestant Migration to New Zealand
Hurley, Robert
Mutual Misreadings: History, Post-Modernism
and Misinterpretation of Science
Keenan Erin
Experiences of Maori Urbanisation in
Wellington, 1945–1970
Lenihan, Rebecca Who were New Zealand’s Scots, 1840–1920?
Liebich, Susann
Book Markets and Reading Culture in the
British World c.1890–1930s
Loveridge, Steven The Construction and Circulation of a Cold
War Culture in New Zealand, late 1940s–1950s
Millar, Grace Families and Communities in the 1951
Waterfront Dispute
Sacksen, Lisa
Expressions of Resistance: Communist
Organisations in New Zealand, 1970–1992:
Their Development, Influence, Fall and Legacy
MA Alexander, Lanei The Discourse on Excessive Consumption,
England 1558–1640
Campbell, James
William Cecil’s Patronage of Alchemical
Projects
Craig, Malcolm
The Bomb That Never Dropped: American
Non-Use of the Atomic Bomb During the
Korean War
Devine, Michael
Necromancy, Treason and Heresy: John
Prestall’s Journey Through the Elizabethan
Underworld
Egarr, Tristan
The Influence of Warfare on New Zealand’s
Police and Prisons, 1876–1925
Gill, Michael
Another Swashbuckling Elizabethan: William
Herle and the English Secret Service
Keane, Basil Kotahitanga Parliament, 1892–1902
Radburn, Nick
William Davenport and the Eighteenth Century
Liverpool Slave Trade
Taylor, James
Harry Atkinson and the Socialist Church,
1896–1906
Waigth, Kesaia
Stolen from its People and Wrenched from its
Roots? The Crown’s 1867 Acquisition of the
Rongowhakaata Meeting House Te Hau ki
Turanga
Walker, Elizabeth The Attitudes Towards, Treatment of, and
General Experience of New Zealand’s
Wounded Returned Servicemen in the Wake of
the Great War

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University of Waikato
PhD Armstrong, John The ‘Common-Health’ and Beyond: New
Zealand Medical Specialists, Medical Culture
and the Transnational Medical Network,
1945–1984
Buckley, Karen
The Roles and Representations of Sport in the
Waikato Region from 1920 to 1981: A Social
and Cultural History
Cantlon, Olwyn
A History of Graphic Design in New Zealand in
the Twentieth Century
Dawson, Maree
Puerperal Insanity, Ethnicity and Class in the
Auckland Mental Hospital, 1860–1900
Dench, Simon
Imag(in)ing Waikato Landscapes: A Spatial
History c. 1800–c.1914
Mahuika, Nepia
Locating the Self? Reconfiguring Oral History
and Tradition
Powell, Debra
A History of Infanticide and Child Homicide in
Smith, Mark
New Zealand, 1870–1910
Uses of History: Linking Learning Histories,
Historical Consciousness and Public History
for Organisational Understanding
MA Brown, Alex Tosspots and Quaffers: Drinking and
Drunkenness in Hamilton City, Aotearoa/New
Zealand, 1945–1980s
Campion, Michelle
Hanley, Galina
‘Narratives from the Mind’s Eye’: The
Significance of Mental Health Pathography in
New Zealand Medical History, 1980–2008
Max to Priscilla: Historical Exploration of
Australian Masculine Identity in Film