Associate Professor Jacqueline Leckie
Jacqueline Leckie is an Adjunct Research Fellow with the Stout Centre for New Zealand Studies at the University.
Adjunct Research Fellow
Stout Research Centre
Associate Professor Jacqueline Leckie
I am an Adjunct Research Fellow with the Stout Centre for New Zealand Studies at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, and proud to have been appointed as the J .D. Stout Fellow in 2018. I am also a Conjoint Associate Professor at the University of Newcastle in Australia. I taught for 27 years at the University of Otago, including being Head of the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology for five years. I have had a leading role within multidisciplinary research networks in Asian studies, Pacific studies, migration and health. Earlier I taught history at the University of the South Pacific and at Kenyatta University. My experience also includes extensive postgraduate supervision and examination.
My interdisciplinary research and publications within Asia-Pacific studies, are in health history, migration and diaspora, ethnicity, identity and gender. Much of this research has emphasised subaltern, neglected, and silenced histories, most recently Old Black Cloud: A Cultural History of Mental Depression in Aotearoa- see https://www.masseypress.ac.nz/authors/jacqueline-leckie
In 2021 Massey University Press published Invisible. New Zealand’s History of Excluding Kiwi-Indians. My book, Colonizing Madness: Asylum and Community in Fiji was published by University of Hawai’i Press in 2020.
I am very proud of my contribution to Pacific studies, serving between 1994-2016 as Secretary/Treasurer, or as President of the Pacific History Association, for which I was awarded life membership. I am currently a co-editor of The Journal of Pacific History. In 2023 I received a Friends of the Turnbull Library award to write a visual history of Indian people in Wellington over the past hundred years. I enjoy communicating my research to non-academics, and partly because of this I have been made an honorary member of the New Zealand Indian Central Association. I am also a fellow of the New Zealand Indian Studies Research Institute and an affiliate of the Centre for Global Migrations at the University of Otago.
In 2024 I was awarded the NZSA Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship to work on a biography of the poet Meg Campbell.
Publications
Leckie, Jacqueline, (2024). Old Black Cloud. A Cultural History of Mental Depression in Aotearoa, Albany, Massey University Press.
Leckie, Jacqueline, (2024). ‘Serendipity or Working with Circumstances?’ In Serendipity, Experience of Pacific Historians. Brij V. Lal, ed., Honolulu, University of Hawai`i Press: 258–77, https://doi.org/10.1080/00223344.2024.2326270.
Leckie, Jacqueline, (2024). ‘Inaugural Brij Lal Memorial Lecture: Belonging, and Banishment from and in the Sea of Islands.’ The Journal of Pacific History, vol. 59, no. 2: 255–68.
Leckie, Jacqueline, (2022). ‘“Go back to your country!” Excluding Indians in Contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand.’ In Narratives of Migrant and Refugee Discrimination in Aotearoa New Zealand, ed A. McCarthy, Routledge Studies in Migration and Diaspora Series: 28–49.
Leckie, Jacqueline, (2022). ‘Pacific Bodies and Personal Space Redefined, 1850-1950.’ In eds, The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, A. Hattori, A., & J. Samson: 490–513.
Leckie, Jacqueline, (2022). ‘White Man’s Kava’ in Fiji: Entangling alcohol, race and insanity, c. 1874-1970.’ In Alcohol, Psychiatry and Society, Comparative and transnational perspectives, c. 1700–1990, W. Ernst and T. Müller, eds. Manchester: Manchester University Press: 126–156.
Leckie, Jacqueline, (2022). ‘From Laucala Bay to the Region: the University of the South Pacific.’ In Suva Stories: A History of the Capital of Fiji, ed. N. Halter Canberra, ANU Press: 293–312, doi.org/10.22459/SS.2022.12
Leckie, Jacqueline (2022) ‘Visibly Hidden in Suva: St Giles.’ In Suva Stories: A History of the Capital of Fiji, ed. N. Halter Canberra, ANU Press 207–228, doi.org/10.22459/SS.2022.08
Leckie, Jacqueline (2021) Invisible. New Zealand’s History of Excluding Kiwi-Indians, Albany, Massey University Press.
Leckie, J. (2021). Insanity in a Sea of Islands: Mobility and Mental Health in New Zealand’s Pacific Sphere, Journal of NZ Studies NS32: 166–182.
Leckie, J. (2021). ‘Infrastructure and “Magic Bullets” in Mental Health in the Colonial Pacific,’ Health and History, 23 (2): 29–50.
Leckie, J. (2020). Colonizing Madness Asylum and Community in Fiji. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
Leckie, J. (2019). “Yaws and Syphilis: Forgotten Diseases of Asia-Pacific”. Rockefeller Archive Center Research Report (2019). http://rockarch.issuelab.org/resources/34132/34132.pdf
Leckie, J. (2018). A University for the Pacific 50 Years of USP. Suva, USP.
Leckie, J. (2018). ‘A Rich Tapestry”: The Life and Heritage of Sir Anand Satyanand. In S. Bandyopadhyay, & J. Buckingham (Eds.), India and the Antipodes: Networks, Boundaries, and Circulation (pp. 223-253). New Delhi: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://global.oup.com/
Leckie, J., & Hughes, F. (2017). Mental Health in the Smaller Pacific States. In M. Lewis, & H. Minas (Eds.), Mental Health in Asia and the Pacific: Historical and Cultural Perspectives (pp. 253-272). New York: Springer.
Leckie, J., McCarthy, A., & Wanhalla, A. (Eds.) (2017). Migrant cross-cultural encounters in Asia and the Pacific. Abingdon: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315595221
Leckie, J., McCarthy, A., & Wanhalla, A. (2017). Introduction: Migrant cross-cultural encounters in Asia and the Pacific. In J. Leckie, A. McCarthy, & A. Wanhalla (Eds.), Migrant cross-cultural encounters in Asia and the Pacific (pp. 1-16). Abingdon: Routledge.
Roberts, G. J., Leckie, J., & Chang, O. (2017). The history of mental health in Fiji. In H. Minas, & M. Lewis (Eds.), Mental health in Asia and the Pacific: Historical and cultural perspectives (pp. 237-252). New York: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-1-4899-7999-5_16
Leckie, J., & Durutalo, A. (2016). Kai Merika!: Fijian children of American servicemen. In J. Bennett, & A. Wanhalla (Eds.), Mothers' Darlings of the South Pacific: The Children of Indigenous Women and US Servicemen, World War II (pp. 183-201). Honolulu; Dunedin: University of Hawai’i Press; Otago University Press.
Leckie, J. (2015). Islands, intimate and public memories of the Pacific War in Fiji. In G. Carr, & K. Reeves (Eds.), Heritage and Memory of War: Responses from Small Islands(pp. 19-35). New York and London: Routledge.
Ghosh, G., & Leckie, J. (Eds.) (2015). Asians and the New Multiculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand. Dunedin: Otago University Press.
Leckie, J. (2015). Afterword: Multiculturalism, being Asian and belonging in Aotearoa New Zealand. In G. Ghosh, & J. Leckie (Eds.), Asians and the new multiculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand (pp. 285-299). Dunedin: Otago University Press.
Bennett, J. A., Leckie, J., & Wanhalla, A. (2014). Mothers' darlings: Secrets and silences in the wake of the Pacific War. In The Pacific War: Aftermaths, Remembrance and Culture (pp. 214-232). doi:10.4324/9781315815541
Leckie, J. (2014). Anand Satyanand: A prominent son of the Indian diaspora. New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 16(2), 31-46.
Leckie, J. (2012). ‘Lost souls’: Madness, suicide, and migration in colonial Fiji until 1920. In A. McCarthy, & C. Coleborne (Eds.), Migration Ethnicity and Mental Health: International Perspectives, 1840-2010 (pp. 123-140). New York and London: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203128435
Edmond, J., Johnson, H., & Leckie, J. (2011). Recentring Asia: Histories, encounters, identities. Leiden: Global Oriental/Brill. doi:10.1163/9789004212619
Leckie, J. (2011). Indians in the South Pacific: Recentred diasporas. In Recentring Asia: Histories, Encounters, Identities (pp. 54-84). doi:10.1163/9789004212619_005
Leckie, J., Edmond, J., & Johnson, H. (2011). Introduction. In Recentring Asia: Histories, encounters, identities.
Voci, P., & Leckie, J. (2011). Localizing Asia in Aotearoa. Wellington: Dunmore Publishing.
Leckie, J. (2011). Introduction. In J. Edmond, H. Johnson, & J. Leckie (Eds.), Recentring Asia: Histories, encounters, identities (pp. 1-10). Leiden: The Netherlands: Global Oriental.
Leckie, J. (2009). Development in an insecure and gendered world: The relevance of the millennium goals. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Leckie, J. (2009). Development, gender and security in a new millennium. In Development in an Insecure and Gendered World: The Relevance of the Millennium Goals (pp. 3-28). Aldershot: Ashgate.
Leckie, Jacqueline, (2007) Indian Settlers. The Story of a New Zealand South Asian Community. Dunedin, Otago University Press.
Leckie, J. (1998). The southernmost Indian Diaspora: From Gujarat to Aotearoa. South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies, 21, 161-180. doi:10.1080/00856409808723354
Leckie, J. (1997). To Labour with the State The Fiji Public Service Association. Otago University Press.
Clive Moore, Leckie, J., & Munro, D. (eds) (1990). Labour in the South Pacific. Townsville, James Cook University of North Queensland.
Pacific. Townsville, James Cook University of North Queensland.