Research - New Zealand Journal of History

New Zealand Journal of History, 44, 2 (2010)
Research
THESES COMPLETED 2009–2010
University of Auckland
PhD Gooder, Claire A History of Sex Education in New Zealand,
1939–1985
Laurenson, Helen
Myths and the City: A Social and Cultural History
of Auckland, 1890–1990
Monter, Sven
Dr Augustin Krämer: A German Ethnologist in the
Pacific
Richdale, Joanne
Lifting the Veil of Silence: Personal Abortion
Narratives in New Zealand, 1919–1937
Smith, Michelle
Assessing Gender in the Construction of Scottish
Identity, c. 1286–c.1586
MA Futter, Debbie Health Histories: Cook Island
Goddard, Karl
The Flushing Incident and British Perspectives
on the Development of Anglo-German Rivalry,
1890–1914
Jordan, Kate
Golden Weather Gardening: New Zealand Home
Sections, 1945–1970
Munro, Thomas
Representations of Airpower in Britain,
1909– 1937
Parfitt, Steven
‘Labour’s Great War’? The Federal Trials of the
IWW and State Repression of Radical Labour in
the United States during the First World War
Resture, Setapu
Continuity and Changes in Tuberculosis in Tuvalu
University of Canterbury
PhD Priestley, Rebecca Nuclear New Zealand (PhD in History and
Philosophy of Science)
MA Dillon, Helena Rogernomics and Rupture: Huntly’s Response to
the Corporatisation of State Coal Mines in 1987
Massey University — Albany
MA Berks, John Crazy in Love. Concepts of Morbid Love in
Western Medicine from 1951 to the Present
McDonald, Lyn
Choiseul and the Missionaries. The Methodist
Mission on Choiseul, Solomon Islands, 1905–1941
Tautari, Rowan
Attachment and Belonging: Nineteenth Century
Whananaki
Taylor, Diane
Jean Baptiste Francois Pompallier: Loved and
Lamented Through the Generations in New
Zealand: An Overview and Appraisal of Bishop
Pompallier’s Mission to Mäori, its Continuation
and the Return of his Body to New Zealand
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Massey University — Palmerston North
PhD Hickey, Carina From Coal Pit to Leather Pit: A Biography of Bob
Semple
Neill, Carol
New Zealand Trade Development Post World War II
MA Littlewood, David ‘Should he serve?’: The Military Service Boards’
Operations in the Wellington Provincial District,
1916–1918
University of Otago
PhD Davis, George Anzac Day Meanings and Memories: New
Zealand, Australian and Turkish Perspectives on a
Day of Commemoration in the Twentieth Century
Palenski, Ron
Parsons, Gwen
Standfield, Rachel
Stevens, Michael
National Identity in Four Part Harmony
‘The many derelicts of the War’?: Great War
Veterans and Repatriation in Dunedin and
Ashburton, 1918 to 1928
Warriors and Wanderers: Making Race in the
Tasman World, 1769–1840
Muttonbirds and Modernity in Murihiku:
Continuity and Change in Käi Tahu Knowledge
MA Gleeson, Claire Charles Begg & Co Ltd
Lübcke, Antje
The Photograph Albums of the New Zealand
Presbyterian Mission to the New Hebrides
Wilson, Simon
Kempthorne, Prosser and Co
Victoria University of Wellington
PhD Horn, Gerard ‘A loyal, united, and happy people’: Irish
Protestant Migrants to Wellington Province
1840–1930. Aspects of migration, settlement and
community
Lenihan, Rebecca
From Alba to Aotearoa: Profiling New Zealand’s
Scots Migrants, 1840–1920
MA Alexander, Lanei Crimes of Consumption: Polemical Uses of
Gluttony and Cannibalism in English Print,
1580–1625
Campbell, James
Craig, Malcolm
Devine, Michael
Radburn, Nick
Waigth, Kesaia
The Alchemical Patronage of Sir William Cecil,
Lord Burghley
The Truman Administration and Non-use of the
Atomic Bomb During the Korean War, June 1950
to January 1953
John Prestall: A Complex Relationship with the
Elizabethan Regime
William Davenport, the Slave Trade, and Merchant
Enterprise in Eighteenth-Century Liverpool
‘Stolen from its people and wrenched from its
roots’? : A study of the Crown’s 1867 Acquisition
of the Rongowhakaata Meeting House Te Hau ki
Türanga

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University of Waikato
MA Campion, Michelle, Narratives from the Mind’s Eye: The Significance
of Mental Health Pathography in New Zealand,
1980–2008
Hanley, Galina
Historical Stereotypes of Australian Masculine
Identity as Reflected and Reinforced by Australian
Film, 1980–1995
THESES IN PROGRESS
University of Auckland
PhD Adamson, Brodie Britain and Neutrality 1853–1909
Ashton, Jennifer
John Webster on the New Zealand Frontier,
1841–1912
Ballériaux, Catherine Reformation Strategies: Civility, Conversion, and
Utopia in Missionary Writings about the New
World, c. 1610–1670
Beaumont, Craig Bank of New Zealand in Fiji, 1876–1990
Campbell, Samantha An Historical Investigation into the Development
of Agricultural Biochemistry in New Zealand
de Pont, Genevieve Touristic Consumption, Reflection and Identity:
New Zealanders’ Overseas Travel Diaries,
1919–1963
Ford, Katrina
Germ Theory and Bacteriology in New Zealand,
1890–1910
Harper, Courtney
A Social History of Diabetes in Twentieth-Century
New Zealand
Hawes, Lisa
Kissing Christ: Mysticism and the Late-Medieval
Religious Man
Hoar, Peter
‘In me are sounds embalmed’: Recording
Technologies and Musical Life in New Zealand,
1880–1949
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
McDowell, Tiopira
Te Ana o te Raiona: The History of the Mäori
Party and an Overview of Maori Engagement with
Parliament and the Maori Seats, 1867–2008
Rankin, Jeremiah,
Scientific Identity and Authority in the Nineteenth-
Century Periodical Press
Schultz, Marianne
Performing New Zealand: Maori and European
Song and Dance on Stage 1860–1940
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
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MA Arbury, Ella Breast or Bottle? Breastfeeding Attitudes and
Practices in New Zealand 1900–1960
Batchelor, Katie
Premieres, Prime Time and Post-Traumatic Stress:
Hollywood and Coming Home Narratives in the
Twenty First Century
Burns, Christopher Parading Kiwis: New Zealand Military
Entertainment and Soldier Shows 1914–1953
Emerson, Lily
Flipping the Switch: A History of Sexual
Subcultures in Postwar New Zealand
Gerdelan, Louis
Vision, Rulership, and Culture in the Public
Spectacles of Early Modern Italy
Hamilton, Sean
Medieval European Experiences of North Africa
Lassig, Angela
The New Look in New Zealand
Macdonald, Paul
Memory through Media: The Creation of
Holocaust Narratives in United States Media,
1960–69
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
Tearney-Pearce, Jessica Speaking Evil: The Devil, the Damned and the
Dangerous In Late Antique Communities
van Gent, Willem
A ‘Natural’ Progression? The Rise of Alternative
and Complementary Medical Modalities in New
Zealand 1950–2000
Weeks, Rebecca
Bringing Black History to the Silver Screen: The
Historical Films of Spike Lee
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 The History of Accounting Standards in
New Zealand
Harland, Michael
Middle East Democratisation and the Bush
Doctrine
Le Couteur, Claire
Medical Research at the Otago Medical School
1909–1959: Its role in forming public preventive
health policy in New Zealand and the contribution
of its chief proponent, Sir Charles Hercus
Milne, Anna
‘And two will come into the world…’:
Mendicant appropriation of political prophecy and
its impact in the public sphere in the thirteenth
and fourteenth centuries
Stack, John Wayne
The New Zealand Army Officer Corps,
1914–1945

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Whitcher, Gary
New Zealand Responses to American Culture c
1944–1956
MA Brown, Melinda Nineteenth century American Racism
Curtis, Robyn
Diseases of Confinement: Leprosy and Syphilis
in the Madras Presidency, 1860–1900
Kamau, Laura-Margaret Mäori Sovereignty
Kingsbury, Benjamin Leprosy in New Zealand and the Quail Island
Colony, c.1890–1925
McCaffrey, Halie
Michael King’s Approach to New Zealand
Identity
McNaughton, Andrew The Debate on the Practice of British Imperialism
in India, 1813–1858
Morris, Gerard
Always on Time: The rationalisation of
timekeeping in New Zealand, 1840–1946
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 Church and State: the Catholic Church and the
State during the 1950s and 1960s
Derbyshire, Noel
Some Aspects of the Anglican Church in New
Zealand: 1945 to the Present
Yuan, Sylvia
The Identity of the New Zealand Missionaries to
China
MA Baron, Patrick Macaulay and the Chartists
Battley, Donald
The Life in the Spirit Seminars in the Anglican
Diocese of Auckland 1970 to 1980
Facer, Wayne
William Jellie: A Scholar and Early Tutor in Adult
Education
Laing, Charles
Making English: The Redefining of High School
English in New Zealand, 1944–1980
Peirse, Allison The Centennial Exhibition in Auckland, 1966
Sanderson, Catherine-ann Monte Cecelia School
Thomson, Patrick
High Above the Japanese Home Islands: New
Zealand’s naval aviators of the British Pacific
Fleet 1945, within the wider context of a Pacific
Dominion at war with Japan
Ward, Judith Anne
Christianity and Non-conversion: A study of the
attitudes of the CMS missionaries in the Bay of
Islands to Tareha and Marupo in the 1830s
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
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Evans, Vic
Johnson, Linda
Meihana, Peter
O’Neill, Jacqui
The Studio Craft Movement in New Zealand
Transnational Maori Activism: Generating
Political Space Across Borders, 1945–1990
The Paradox of Maori Privilege
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
Knuckey, Pauline
Theatre and Film in Palmerston North
University of Otago
PhD Bateman, Grace Childhood Religion in South Dunedin
Camber, Polly
Westland/Sthwestern Oregon, USA
Crighton, Anna
Robert McDougall Art Gallery
Davy, Dan
Expressions of Masculinity among British & Irish
Goldminers in the Otago Goldfield during the
Nineteenth Century
Dodson, Marsa
History of Children Left Behind by US
Servicemen based in Aitutaki during WWII
Gardiner, Steven
Representations of Dual Maori & Pakeha Ancestry
in Nineteenth Century and early Twentieth
Century New Zealand
Harland, Jill
Immigration Study of Orcadians & Shetland
Islanders to Colonial Settlements
McLane, Ryan
Impact of Quarantine Measures 1918–1919 flu
epidemic in NZ, Fiji, New Caledonia & American
Samoa
Milnes, John
WWI Effect on Three Dunedin Christian
Denominations
Moffat, Susan
History of New Zealand School Dental Service
Rosi, Crane
Biological Science in late Nineteenth Century
New Zealand
Storey, Kenton
NZ Wars in Comparative Colonial Context
Sullivan, Kim
Caledonian & other Scottish-oriented Friendly
Societies in NZ, Canada & Scotland during the
18th/19th Centuries
MA Campbell, Scott Community and Cohesion in a Colonial Port
Town: Port Chalmers 1860–1880
Cappie, Scott
Ecclesiology in Marsilius of Padua’s Defensor
Pacis
Hughes, Danielle
Presbyterian Deaconesses in the Social Services
1907–1975
Knewstubb, Elspeth Gender, Ethnicity & Madness in Nineteenth-
Century Dunedin’s Private Asylum
McArthur, Nic
The Wealth of Goldminers at Gabriel’s Gully
Singh, Harpreet
Sikhs in Aotearoa

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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
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
Cunningham, Matthew ‘Give us a Creed’: Radical conservative and farright
movements in New Zealand during the Great
Depression, 1927–1935
Fisher, Martin
The Politics of Reconciliation in NZ, Canada,
Australia and Alaska: The First Decade of
Treaty of Waitangi Settlements in International
Perspective, 1988–1999
Hurley, Robert
Mutual Misreadings: History, Post-modernism and
the Misinterpretation of Science
Keenan, Erin
Experiences of Maori Urbanisation in Wellington,
1945–1970
Liebich, Susann
Book Markets and Reading Culture in the British
World c.1890–1930s
Loveridge, Steven
Intersections of Mobilisation and Public Culture in
New Zealand during the First World War
Millar, Grace
Families and Communities in the 1951 Waterfront
Dispute
Patrick, Rachel
Life and Limb: New Zealand Men, Work and the
Great War, c.1900–1938
Ritchie, Sam
The Conceptualisation, Suppression, and
Utilisation of Indigenous Internecine Violence in
the Tasman World
Sacksen, Lisa
Expressions of Resistance: Communist
organisations in New Zealand 1970–1992: Their
development, influence, fall and legacy
Verma, Esha
State in Transition: The Kalhora and Talpur Rule
in Pre-Colonial Sindh c.1740–1843
MA Blackmun, Carl Becoming an ‘Ex’, Being an ‘Ex’: Dissent and
Defection in the CPNZ and CPUSA in 1956
Caldwell, Jessica
Holocaust Consciousness in New Zealand
1980–2010: A History
Clarkson, Coralie
The Realities of Return: Exploring the Experiences
of World War I Soldiers after their Return to New
Zealand
Condie, Steven
Land Improvement in Colonial New Zealand
Cotter, Cameron
The Liberal Historians—History and the Whig
Tradition
Egarr, Tristan
Discipline and Defence: The Military Influence on
Policing and Imprisonment, c.1870–1913
Falconer-Gray, Catherine ‘Richly executed figures’: The Mäori body in the
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Gill, Michael
Another Swashbuckling Elizabethan: William
Herle and the English Secret Service
Keane, Basil Kotahitanga Parliament, 1892–1902
Keating, James
Latham, Sienna
Mann, Owen
McConnochie, Adam
Paul, Jane
Taylor, James
Walker, Elizabeth
Representing Labour: The 1890 Maritime Strike
and New Zealand Newspaper Coverage of the
Labour Movement
Elizabethan Gentlewomen and the Practice of
Chymistry
Cricket Tours as Imperial Bonds: Changing Faces
- Same Motives? Cricket Tours to New Zealand
1929–1939
Group Resistance to Neo-Liberal Economic
Policies in West Bengal, India
Visual Histories: Amateur Films in New Zealand
c.1928–1967
‘To me, Socialism is not a set of dogmas but
a living principle’: Harry Atkinson and the
Christchurch Socialist Church, 1890–1905
‘The Living Death’: The experience of New
Zealand’s wounded soldiers after the Great War
University of Waikato
PhD Armstrong, John The ‘Common Health’ and Beyond: New Zealand
Medical Specialists and the International Medical
Field, 1945–1984
Brandl-Beck, Daniel ‘A Tale of Three Cities’: Berlin 1930s, Paris
1940s, and London, 1950s. The Contribution of
Queer Men’s Travels to the Formation of Queer
Identities
Buckley, Karen
A History of Public Narratives and
Representations of Sport in the Waikato
Cantlon, Polly
A History of Graphic Design in New Zealand in
the Twentieth Century
Dawson, Maree
The Influence of Ideas about Heredity and Racial
Degeneracy in Medical Discourses in New
Zealand, between 1870 and 1900, with a particular
focus on the Auckland Mental Hospital
Dench, Simon
Imagining Waikato Landscapes: A Spatial History
c.1800–c.1914
Harman, Sandy
A Socio-Cultural Perspective on the French Marist
Priests and their Maori Mission, 1838–1854
Mahuika, Nepia
Locating the Self? Reconfiguring Oral History and
Tradition
Powell, Debra
A History of Infanticide and Child Homicide in
Smith, Mark
New Zealand, 1870–1925
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