Inaugural Professorial Lecture – Professor Angela Wanhalla

Whānau, Whenua and History
About Professor Angela Wanhalla's research:
Angela (Kāi Te Ruahikihiki, Kāi Tahu) is a historian whose research focuses on the complex histories and politics of cross-cultural intimacy in colonial societies, particularly for Indigenous communities in New Zealand and the Pacific.

Her publications include the award-winning Matters of the Heart: A History of Interracial Marriage in New Zealand (2013), Mothers' Darlings of the South Pacific: The children of US servicemen and Indigenous women, World War II (2016) co-edited with Judith A. Bennett; and He Reo Wāhine: Māori Women's Voices from the Nineteenth Century (2017) co-authored with Lachy Paterson.

Angela was a Royal Society Te Apārangi Rutherford Discovery Fellow from 2014–19. She currently co-leads the Te Hau Kāinga: Histories and Legacies of the Māori Home Front, 1939–45 project, funded by a Marsden grant.

This lecture will be followed with light refreshments, tea, coffee and juice.