Current postgraduate students
Find out about current postgraduate students' research in the History programme.
Ailish Wallace-Buckland
Ailish is researching the boundaries of femininity and womanhood in Aotearoa/New Zealand between the 1920s-1986.
Aaron Jackson
Aaron is researching how late 20th century NZ foreign policy grew out of a deeply embedded grassroots reaction to French nuclear testing and American overreach.
Anna Czerwinska
Anna returned to Wellington for her PhD in 2023. Her thesis focuses on the imagination of Central and Eastern Europe in the British Dominions during the Great War.
Dean Broughton
Dean Broughton is researching the lives of working seafarers in the mid-twentieth century.
Guosheng Xie
Guosheng is researching the impact of Chinese labour and enterprise in New Zealand from the 1860s to the 1920s.
Hannah Clark
Hannah is researching the experiences of children of Holocaust survivors in New Zealand through oral history.
Leanne Miranda
Leanne Miranda is tracing the History of Indian Food in New Zealand from the 1940s to the 1990s.
Natalie Looyer
Natalie's research investigates how rock climbing emerged as a distinct activity and then grew and developed at pace in Aotearoa, c.1960 to 2020.
Noah Szajowitz
Noah is researching the experiences of New Zealand’s Home Guard and Women’s Auxiliary Services during the Second World War.
