Arts & Social Sciences
Te Kura Kete Aronui

James Beattie

BA (Hons), PhD Otago
Convenor

James Beattie specialises in environmental history and the history of science. He is particularly fascinated by trans-national and cross-cultural exchanges of scientific, health and environmental ideas, particularly between Asia and elsewhere. He is also very interested in colonial landscape representations in art.

James has recently joined the History Programme and teaches courses such as HIST 206: History in Practice: Historical Methods and Research; HIST 318: Science and Empire, 17602-1920s; HIST502: Historical Research Methodologies; and, in 2009, World History. He is looking forward to supervising student research in the areas of environmental history; the history of science, transnational history and cultural/social history.

Currently he is working on a book exploring the environmental culture of the British Empire. Other projects include: East India Company settlers in nineteenth century New Zealand; settler conservation in 1840s and 1850s Otago; a multidisciplinary, multi-authored book on the Scottish doctor and natural historian, W.L. Lindsay; plants and health; historical climate change ideas.

Telephone: +64 7 838 4466 ext. 6459
Room: J3.05
Email: jbeattie@waikato.ac.nz

For more information visit James' staff page.

Catharine Coleborne

BA (Hons), MA Melb, PhD La Trobe

On study Leave A Semester 2012

Associate Professor Catharine Coleborne arrived at Waikato in 1999 and teaches global histories, Australian history, histories of Australia and New Zealand, and the social history of medicine and illness. Her particular research interests are in social and cultural histories of medicine, including medicine and the museum, with special attention to psychiatry and gender history; she is also interested in law and history and has published in the areas of Australian feminist history, legal history and the history of 'madness'.

Telephone: +64 7 838 4674
Room: J3.03
Email: cathyc@waikato.ac.nz

For more information visit Catharine's staff page.

Nadia Gush

BFA, BA(Hons), MA Canterbury, PhD Victoria University

After many long cold years spent shivering in the mainland, Nadia has finally returned to the North Island to teach New Zealand history part time. Nadia specialises in twentieth century New Zealand cultural and women's history, with interests in citizenships and the politics of belonging. Research interests also span the social history of medicine, art history and art theory.

Nadia currently teaches HIST107 and is working on preparing a book on cultural citizenships for publication.

Telephone: +64 7 838 4466 ext. 6308
Room: J3.23
Email: nadia@waikato.ac.nz

Nēpia Mahuika

BTchg/BA (Hons), MA Waikato
Graduate Student Adviser

Nēpia Mahuika is of Ngāti Porou and Waikato/Ngāti Maniapoto descent. Nēpia teaches both Oral History and Researching Iwi/Māori History, and is particularly interested in historical theory and methodologies. He is currently undertaking his PhD thesis, which focuses on Māori oral traditions and oral history, indigenous identities and theories of liberation, revitalisation and empowerment.

Telephone: +64 7 838 4466 ext.6462
Room: J3.04
Email: nmahuika@waikato.ac.nz

For more information, visit Nēpia's staff page.

Raymond Richards

BA(Hons), DipT Waikato, MA Maryland, PhD Calif
International Adviser

On study Leave A Semester 2012

Raymond Richards was born in Hamilton and completed a BA (Hons) at the University of Waikato and a Diploma in Teaching at Hamilton Teachers' College. He then lived in the United States for eight years, gaining an MA at the University of Maryland and a PhD at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He returned to the University of Waikato, this time as a lecturer, in 1990. In 1994, Penn State Press published his book Closing the Door to Destitution: the Shaping of the Social Security Acts of the United States and New Zealand. The book was nominated for five awards. Raymond teaches the history of the United States. His biography of Sir Geoffrey Palmer will be published in 2010.

Telephone: +64 7 838 4466, ext: 8042
Room: J3.11
Email: ray@waikato.ac.nz

For more information visit Raymond's staff page

Rowland Weston

BA (Hons), PhD James Cook, PGCert TT Waik
Undergraduate Student Adviser
Seminar Organiser

Rowland joined History in 2001 and teaches papers in European and Atlantic History and Historiography. His research interests are in the history of ideas and especially those of the 'Long Eighteenth Century'. He has recently developed a research interest in Historiophoty - the filmic representation of historical phenomena.

Telephone: +64 7 838 4487
Room: J3.10
Email: rweston@waikato.ac.nz

For more information visit Rowland's staff page.