Arts & Social Sciences
Te Kura Kete Aronui

Ross Galbreath

PhD Canterbury (Zoology), PhD Waikato (History)

(Off-campus)
Telephone: +64 9 232 8113
Email: onewhero@ps.gen.nz

Ross Galbreath was working as a scientist in Auckland when he began studies in history and eventually those studies took over. He completed his PhD at Waikato in 1989 and has retained his links with us ever since, while working as an independent contract historian.  This has required some flexibility in research interests - he has completed books on the history of conservation and of science and is currently working on another in the field of business history.

Stephen Hamilton

BA(Hons) Waikato, PhD Auckland

Email: drstephenhamilton@gmail.com

Stephen has published extensively on New Zealand literary and social history, and has recently turned his attention to the writing of biography and local history. In 2001 he was appointed historian on the Waitangi Tribunal's Tauranga Moana enquiry. His commissioned history of the Victoria University of Wellington Students' Association, A Radical Tradition, appeared in 2002. He was the Upper Hutt Community Archivist from 2003 until 2007 and resigned from the Hamilton City Community Archive in mid 2009 to return to his role as freelance historian. He is currently writing a biography of William Rysdale, military settler of Pukerimu, and is arranging and describing the papers of the Owen family, donated to the Hamilton Community Archive in 2008.

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Philip Hart

MA Tas, PhD ANU

Room: J3.09
Telephone: +64 7 838 4466, ext.8344
Email: prhart@waikato.ac.nz

Philip Hart joined the University in 1969. Whilst his teaching has been mostly in modern European history, he has developed a research interest in the social history of the Te Aroha and Hauraki Mining Districts.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

'Maori and Mining: A Case Study of Hone Werahiko and Te Aroha', Journal of Australasian Mining History, vol. 1 (September 2003), pp. 79-94.

'Australian Capital in New Zealand: The Te Aroha Silver and Gold Mining Company', same journal, vol. 2 (September 2004), pp. 35-53.

'Self-Confidence, Self-Promotion, and Self-Delusion: A Case Study of a Saviour Who Failed', ditto, vol. 3 (September 2005), pp. 138-156.

'The Thames Miners' Union: Defending Miners and the Mining Industry', ditto, vol. 4 (September 2006), pp. 139-155

'Michael Dineen O'Keeffe: Union Leader - a "colourful personality" ', ditto, vol. 5 (September 2007), pp. 116-134.

'A Carter, a Businessman, and a Prospector with Several Things in Common', Journal of Australasian Mining History, vol. 7 (September 2009), pp. 138-154.

Jane Moodie

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(Off-campus)

Hugh Morrison

BA(Hons) Otago, BTh AustCollTheology, PhD Massey

Email: hugh.morrison@otago.ac.nz

Hugh has been a contract lecturer in History (2005 and 2006), and was previously a secondary school teacher and a youth worker. His research interests are in religious history (world and New Zealand), and the ways in which New Zealanders have interacted with the wider world (and the impact on domestic social and cultural histories). Hugh is currently Lecturer in Social Sciences at the University of Otago College of Education.

Paul Star

MA Cambridge, MA, PhD Otago

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