New Zealand members and their interests

Institutional Affiliation: University of Waikato

Qualifications: B.A. Hons, Ph.D.

E-mail: jbeattie@waikato.ac.nz

Address: Department of History, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton 3240, Waikato, New Zealand

Website: http://www.otago.ac.nz/history/staff/james_b.html

Interests: Environmental history of New Zealand, India, Australia and China, colonial art history, comparative environmental history, nineteenth century German and Scottish science, medical history

Current Projects: Chinese-New Zealand gardens; Japanese gardens in New Zealand; Asian-New Zealand nineteenth century medical science and forestry; Scientists educated in Scotland and northern Europe in British Empire and their contribution to natural history; colonial artist Alfred Sharpe; medical history; comparative Australian-New Zealand environmental history; 'The Forgotten Romantic: Environment, Literature and Art in New Zealand, 1840-1920 (with Julian Kuzma); natural theology (with John Stenhouse).

Recent Publications (2004-6):

• "W. L. Lindsay, Scottish environmentalism, and the 'improvement' of nineteenth-century New Zealand", in Tony Ballantyne and Judith A. Bennett, eds., Landscape/Community: Perspectives from New Zealand History, Dunedin, 2005, pp.43-56.
• with Dr. Paul Star, "State Forest Conservation and the New Zealand Landscape: Origins and Influences, 1850-1914", in Landscape/Community, pp.17-29.
• Review of: Kavita Philip, Civilising Natures: Race, Resources and Modernity in Colonial South India, in New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 7, 2 (December, 2005), pp.
  
• with Dr. John Stenhouse, "God and the natural world in nineteenth-century New Zealand", in John Stenhouse, ed., assisted by Antony Wood, Christianity, Modernity and Culture: New Perspectives of New Zealand History, Adelaide, 2005, pp.180-203.
  
• "Alfred Sharpe's forest consciousness in New Zealand and Australia, 1859-1908", in Michael Calver et al., eds., Proceedings of the 6th National Conference of the Australian Forest History Society Inc., Rotterdam, 2005, pp.17-25.
  
• Review of: Greg Bankoff, Cultures of Disaster: Society and natural hazard in the Philippines, in New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 6, 2 (December, 2004), pp.193-6.
  
• "Rethinking Science, Religion and Nature in Environmental History: Drought in Early Twentieth-Century New Zealand", "Special Issue: The Frontiers of Environmental History"/"Sonderheft: Umweltgeschichte in der Erweiterung", Historical Social Research/Historische Sozialforschung, 29, 3 (November, 2004), pp.82-103.
  

Other comments: I am book reviews editor for the New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies.

James Braund

Institutional Affiliation: Deptartment of German and Slavonic Studies (SELL), Auckland University.

Qualifications: Ph.D.

E-mail: j.braund@auckland.ac.nz

Address: The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1001

Interests: German connections with NZ and the Pacific, esp. German-Pacific scientific connections prior to WWI; European exploration of the Pacific; German anthropological interest in the South Pacific; Science History; Environmental History.

Current Projects: German perspectives on environmental change in 19th century NZ; J.R. and G. Forster in NZ (1773 & 1774).

Recent Publications (2004-6):
(Select list only)

• 2006. "'die Kniginn der sdlichen Welt?'. Georg Forster und Neuseeland", Georg-Forster-Studien XI [forthcoming].
  
• 2006. [with Douglas G. Sutton] "The Case of Heinrich Wilhelm Poll (1877-1939): A German-Jewish Geneticist, Eugenicist, Twin Researcher, and Victim of the Nazis", Journal of the History of Biology [forthcoming].
  
• 2005. [with Wilfried Heller] The 'Bohemians' in New Zealand - An Ethnic Group?, Auckland, Research Centre for Germanic Connections with New Zealand and the Pacific, vii + 56pp.
  
• 2005. Im Schatten zweier Kriege: Deutsche und sterreicher in Neuseeland im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert, ed. by James N. Bade with the assistance of Gabriele Borowski and James Braund. Bremen, Edition Temmen, 391pp. [editorial assistant / translator / chapter author].
  
• 2005. "German-Speaking Scientists in New Zealand 1773-1951: Research Past, Present and Future", in: Bernadette Luciano and David G. Mayes (eds), New Zealand and Europe: Connections and Comparisons (= European Studies, vol. 21) Amsterdam, Rodopi, pp.173-187.
  
• 2004. "The Pacific Legacy of George Forster", in: Europe's Pasts and Presents: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association for European History, ed. by Stephan Atzert and Andrew G. Bonnell. Unley [SA], Australian Humanities Press, pp.245-260.

Tom Brooking

Institutional Affiliation: Professor of History, University of Otago

Qualifications: Ph.D.

E-mail: tom.brooking@stonebow.otago.ac.nz

Address: History Department, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand

Interests: Agricultural sustainabilty, environmental impacts of farming, environmental history of New Zealand and New World comparisons, impact of British heritage, practice and attitudes on the environmental history of New Zealand.

Current Projects: Marsden funded project on Empires of grass: The transformation of the New Zealand Grasslands, 1850s-1920s. this involves a team of 8 historians and geographers and will result and several articles and co-author book and University of Otago Humanities' research cluster on the impact of sheep and dairy farming on the Mataura river basin in Southland, 1945to the present. This involves working with a rural sociologist cum anthropologist of food and an ecologist.

Recent Publications (2004-6):

• 2004 The History of New Zealand, Greenwood Press (USA) series.
  

Charles Dawson

Institutional Affiliation: Waitangi Tribunal

Qualifications: BA (Hist/Engl); MA(American studies) PhD (Brit Col)

E-mail: charles.dawson@justice.govt.nz

Address: C/- Waitangi Tribunal PO Box 5022 Wellington

Interests: Environmental history; literatures/arts & the environment; Te reo Maori, Treaty history, 'ecocriticism'; rivers/water and literature/culture/law

Current Projects: Vice-President, Australasian branch of a global literature and environment network (www.asle-anz.asn.au); work on Wai 262 flora and fauna and cultural IP claim; occasional work on a book entitled Writing the memory of rivers

Recent Publications (2004-6):

• Reviews in Takahe and Canadian Literature on environmental, indigenous rights and Maori language books; catalogue essay for Turi Park's exhibit at www.idiom.co.nz

Other comments: The ASLE literature and environment network complements this one (includes environmental historians/ecologists)

Mark Derby

Institutional Affiliation: Waitangi Tribunal

Qualifications: Masters of NZ Studies

E-mail: mark.derby@justice.govt.nz

Address: C/- Waitangi Tribunal PO Box 5022 Wellington

Interests: Te reo Maori, Treaty history, Tutira (curated permanent exhibition at Hawkes Bay Museum), architecture

Current Projects: Curating exhibition on 1913 strike for Museum of Wellington, City and Sea, working as researcher on Waitangi Tribunal's East Coast and Tongariro National Park inquiries

Recent Publications (2004-6):

• Essay on prefabricated housing in 1950s New Zealand, to appear in Fabrications (Journal of Society of Architectural History Australia and NZ) in 2006
  

Kirsty Douglas

Institutional Affiliation: History Programme, Research School of Social Sciences, ANU, Canberra

Qualifications: Ph.D.

E-mail: kirsty@coombs.anu.edu.au

Address: History Program RSSS, ANU, Canberra, 0200, Australia

Interests: History of science, geology, Australian and comparative environmental history

Current Projects: colonial meteorology; geological heritage and national identity

James Hudson

Institutional Affiliation: Centre for Indigenous Governance & Development, Massey University

Qualifications: LLM (Victoria University)

E-mail: j.t.hudson@massey.ac.nz

Address: Private Bag 11 222, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Julian Kuzma

Qualifications: Ph.D. (Otago)

E-mail: juliankuzma@hotmail.com

Address: 14 Collins Place, Edinburgh, EH3 5JD, Scotland.

Interests: Environmental literature and history.

Current Projects:

• God's Own Country: Landscape & Literature in New Zealand - a book on environmental literature.
  
• 'Introduction' to new edition of A. Rees' The Merry Marauders (1913). (in press, Otago English Studies, 2006).
  
• With Tom Brooking, 'Land of the Long Environmental Silence: W. P. Reeves' Ao Tea Roa as landmark environmental history'.
  
• With James Beattie, 'The Forgotten Romantic: Environment, Literature and Art in New Zealand, 1840-1920'.
  
• Writing a NZ historical romance.
  

Gavin McLean

Institutional Affiliation: Ministry for Culture & Heritage

Qualifications: Ph.D., DipMusStud

E-mail: gavin.mclean@mch.govt.nz

Address: Ministry for Culture & Heritage, PO Box 5364, Wellington

Interests: Heritage, local, imperial, business, transport history

Current Projects:

• Governor-General history (UOP 06)
  
• Heartlands: NZ Historians Write About Places Where History happened (Penguin, Apr 06 co-edited with Ky Gentry)
  
• Chapter on Stone Store for Judith Binney book
  
• Helicopters (NZ) Ltd (Hazard Press 06)
  
• Reed Publishing (NZ) Ltd (Reeds 07)
  
• Anthology of Reeds writing (Reeds 07)
  
• Update of guide to writing local history (UOP 06) Te Ara entries Feb 06
  
• Recent Publications (2004-6):
  
• Wellington: History, Culture & Heritage (UOP 2004)
  
• We Were Different: The Tasman Express Story (Ventures Two, 2004)
  
• Frontier of Dreams (Hodder Moa Beckett 2005, co-edited with Bronwyn Dalley)

Lachy Paterson

Institutional Affiliation: Massey University, Palmerston North

Qualifications: Ph.D.

E-mail: L.Paterson@massey.ac.nz

Address: School of History, Philosophy and Politics, Massey University, Private Bag 11 222, Palmerston North

Interests: New Zealand race relations

Recent Publications (2004-6):

• 'Mana Maori Motuhake: Challenges to "kawanatanga" 1840-1940' [pp 163-170] and [with J. Stenhouse] 'Nga Poropiti me nga Hahi: Prophets and the Churches' [pp 171-180] in Tania M. Ka'ai etal (eds) Ki te Whaiao: An introduction to Maori Culture and Society (Auckland: Pearson Educational, 2004).
  

Other comments: I am interested in environmental history, although it is not a primary research area.

Robert Peden

Institutional Affiliation: University of Otago

Qualifications: BA, BA Hons, MA

E-mail: robert.susan@xtra.co.nz

Address: 27 Derrett Place, St Martins, Christchurch

Interests: Agricultural, Rural, Environmental, Social History

Current Projects: Ph.D.

Kerryn Pollock

Qualifications: M.A.

E-mail: kerryn.pollock@paradise.net.nz

Address: 3/21 Waripori Street, Berhampore, Wellington

Interests: Environmental history (plant introductions and treatment, particularly c19th, settler/colonising adaptations to new environment/treatment of natural environment), Wellington heritage.

Current Projects: Small publication entitled 'Heritage of Health: a brief history of medicine, maternity hospitals and motorways in Te Aro , Wellington' with Natasha Naus; research assistance for Associate Professor Don Garden (University of Melbourne) on historical El Nio weather patterns in N.Z.

Rebecca Priestley

Institutional Affiliation: University of Canterbury

Qualifications: BSc Hons (first class) in earth sciences, now working on PhD in HPS

E-mail: rebeccap@paradise.net.nz

Address: PO Box 7145, Wellington South

Interests: New Zealand's nuclear history; Twentieth century New Zealand science and scientists

Current Projects: PhD thesis on New Zealand's nuclear history; Te Ara Encyclopaedia entry on Charles Cotton and changing ideas of landscape development in NZ

Recent Publications (2004-6):

• Popular articles related to thesis work include "Hot property", NZ Listener, 5 November 2005 and "Material evidence", NZ Listener, 27 August 2005.
  

Other comments:

• Article on Uranium prospecting on New Zealand's West Coast, 1950s-1970s (first presented at Historical Geographers Conference in Auckland, December 2003) due to be published in New Zealand Geographer in 2006.
  
• Te Ara Encyclopaedia entry on the Search for Radioactive Minerals in NZ due to go online in 2006.

Francis Lucian Reid

Institutional Affiliation: Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge

Qualifications: MPhil, MA (Cantab)

E-mail: flr25@cam.ac.uk

Address: Corpus Christi College, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RH

Interests: History of Science, History of Environmental Perception, History of Transport, History of Technology.

Current Projects: The New Zealand Institute and a cultural history of New Zealand science, 1867-c.1905 (Ph.D. thesis in progress)

Recent Publications (2004-5):

• "Isaac Frost's Two Systems of Astronomy (1846): plebeian resistance and scriptural astronomy" in: British Journal for the History of Science, 38:2 (2005) 161-177
  
• "'The democratic politician does not trouble himself with science': class and professionalisation in the New Zealand Institute, 1867-1903" in: Tuhinga: The journal of scholarship and matauranga of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, 16, (2005) 21-31.

Libby Robin

Institutional Affiliation: Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University

Qualifications: PhD, BA, (Hons), BSc, Dip.Ed, (Melb.)

E-mail: libby.robin@anu.edu.au

Address: Fenner School of Environment and Society , Building 43, ANU, Canberra 0200, Australia.

Interests: History of Australian (and comparative settler society) science

Current Projects: environmental history of Australia, nationalism and science in settler societies

Recent Publications (2004-5):

• (with Tom Griffiths) 'Environmental History of Australasia', Environment and History, 10, 4 (December 2004)
  
• A Change in the Weather: Climate and Culture in Australia, edited with Tim Sherratt and Tom Griffiths), Canberra: NMA, 2005.
  
• Strata: Deserts, Past, Present and Future, edited with Mandy Martin and Mike Smith, Canberra: Goanna; Mandy Martin, 2005.
  
• Understanding the Environment: Bridging the Disciplinary Divides, edited with R. Quentin, Grafton and Robert Wasson, Sydney: UNSW Press, 2005.
  

In Press:

• Nature and Nation: Science, People and environment in Australia, Sydney: UNSW Press, (forthcoming, 2007).
  

Other comments: Co-ordinator of (Australian) Environmental History Network

Kirstie Ross

Institutional Affiliation: Curator History, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Qualifications: MA (First Class Honours) in History

E-mail: kirstier@tepapa.govt.nz

Address: Te Papa, P O Box 467, Wellington

Interests: Cultural history of nature especially the relationship between nature, popular culture, and citizenship, Specific interests include the popularisation of botany and natural history in museums, nature study in schools, tourism and outdoor recreation (especially tramping), the creation of parks and gardens, nature and aesthetics

Current Projects:

• Co-curating an environmental history exhibition, Blood, Earth, Fire. Whangai, Whenua, Ah iK: The Transformation of Aotearea New Zealand - opening at Te Papa at the end of April 2006
  
• Preparing a book about nature, popular culture and citizenship 1900-1960 for publication by AUP in its Studies in Cultural and Social History series (working title 'A Proper Sense of Country')

Recent Publications:

• Review essay of The Wonder Country: Making New Zealand Tourism and Our Islands Our Selves: A History of Conservation in New Zealand in New Zealand Books, August 2005

Paul Star

Institutional affiliation: Postdoctoral fellow, History Department, University of Otago

Qualifications: M.A. (Cantab), M.A. Ph.D. (Otago)

E-mail: starmulq@es.co.nz

Address: 246 Harington Point Road, RD2 Dunedin

Interests: New Zealand environmental history, forest history, agricultural history, history of science

Current projects: Pasture development in New Zealand to 1930; 'People and the environment' chapter for the forthcoming New Oxford History of New Zealand

Recent publications:

• "Native forests to empires of grass: The construction of New Zealand's grasslands", in Michael Calver et al (eds), A Forest Conscienceness: Proceedings of the Sixth National Conference of the Australian Forest History Society, Millpress, Rotterdam, 2005, pp 575-585.
  
• Review of David Young, 'Our Islands, Our Selves: A History of Conservation in New Zealand', Archifacts, April 2005, pp 103-106.
  
• (with James Beattie) "State forest conservation and the New Zealand landscape: Origins and influences, 1850-1914", in Tony Ballantyne and Judith A Bennett (eds), Landscape/Community: Perspectives from New Zealand History, University of Otago Press, Dunedin, 2005, pp 31-41.
  
• "'Doomed timber': Towards an environmental history of Seaward Forest", in Tony Ballantyne and Judith A Bennett (eds), Landscape/Community: Perspectives from New Zealand History, University of Otago Press, Dunedin, 2005, pp 17-29.
  

Jonathan West

Institutional Affiliation: University of Otago

Qualifications: BA Double Hons English and Political Studies; Master of Arts Political Studies

E-mail: wesjo856@student.otago.ac.nz

Address: 9 Braeview Cres, Maori Hill, Dunedin.

Interests: Academic: Politics, Local History, Environmental stuff.
Personal: tramping, sport, cards, music.

Current Projects: Ph.D. - Environmental History of Otago Peninsula.

Jo Whittle

Institutional Affiliation: Department of History, University of Auckland

Qualifications: BA, MSc (Resource Management)

E-mail: jo.whittle@gmail.com

Address: 12 Terminus Street, Silverstream, Upper Hutt

Interests: Environmental history, historical geography, concepts of landscape, environment and technology, environment and popular culture

Current Projects: Ph.D.: 'Electric Landscapes: Electricity and Environment in 20th Century New Zealand'

Jim Williams

Institutional Affiliation: University of Otago

Qualifications: Ph.D.

E-mail: jim.williams@stonebow.otago.ac.nz

Address: 35 Thorn St., Dunedin

Interests: Environmental history (especially pre-contact)

Current Projects: Ancestral land as a motivator for natural resource management

Recent Publications (2004-6):

• 2004 - a book chapter, "Traditional Mori Images of Geographic Space", in Kearsley, Geoff and FitzHarris, Blair (Eds) 2004; Glimpses of a Gaian World, School of Social Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, Pp 271 - 283.
  
• 2004b: Ph.D. thesis, 'e Pkihi Hakinga a Kai, University of Otago
  
• 2005a Research Report Freeman, Claire, Cheyne, Christine, Ellery, Norah, Ding, Paula
  
• The Impact of Rising Property Prices on Coastal Settlement Communities (My contribution was the material addressing impact on Mori coastal communities)
  
• 2005b Commissioned Research Report: Hokanson, Jeff, Chapman, Fred and Williams, Jim 2005; ETHNOGRAPHIC INVESTIGATIONS AT CAMP GUERNSEY, WYOMING Confidential report to the Wyoming Army National Guard.

Vaughan Wood

Institutional Affiliation: Geography Department, University of Canterbury

Qualifications: Ph.D.

E-mail: gareth.wood@canterbury.ac.nz

Current Projects: Empires of Grass (Marsden Fund project)

Graeme Wynn

Institutional Affiliation: The University of British Columbia, Department of Geography

Qualifications: Ph.D. (Toronto, 1974)

E-mail: wynn@geog.ubc.ca

Address: Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, 1984 West Mall, Vancouver,
V6T 1Z2, Canada.

Interests: Environmental History, Acclimatisation/invasive species, forest history, historical geography

Current Projects: Environmental history of Canada (2 books)

Recent Publications (2004-6):

• "On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in Environmental History," Environment and History, 10, 2 (May 2004), pp. 133-51
  
• "A Place for Geography?" New Zealand Geographer, (Special IGU Year Issue: Understanding Our Place in the World: New Voices/ New Directions), 60, 1 (April 2004), pp. 2-11
  
• BC Studies: On the Environment Special Double Issue of BC Studies # 142/143 (Summer/Fall 2004). Guest Editor. ISSN 0005-2949; ISBN 0-9736638-0-4. 352pp
  
• "'Shall We Linger along Ambitionless'? Environmental Perspectives on British Columbia" BC Studies Special issue "On the Environment," #142/143 (Summer /Fall 2004), pp.5-67
  
• Lost in Translation, or, Adrift in Interdisciplinary Space," BC Studies Special issue "On the Environment" #142/143 (Summer /Fall 2004), pp. 287-95
  
• "Of canoes, and pines, and rock-bound gardens," Foreword to Claire Campbell, Shaped by the West Wind (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2004) (I am General Editor of the Nature/History/Society Series at UBCP in which this volume appears)
  
• "Peeping Through the Cracks: Seeking Connections, Comparisons, and Understanding in Unstable Space," in J. Reid and S. Hornsby (eds), Connections and Comparisons: New England and Atlantic Canada (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005), pp. 295-313, 404-6
  
• "Reflections on the Nature of an Urban Bog," Urban History Review XXXIV, 1 (Fall 2005 automne), pp. 9-27. Special issue on The Nature of Cities, (with Sally Hermansen)