Charlotte Macdonald

Professor

BA (Victoria University)
BA (Hons) (Massey)
PhD (Auckland)

Contact details

Lectures in

HIST 112: Introduction to New Zealand History
HIST 235: Special Topic: The Terrible Wonder of Modernity: The World Re-made, C.1880-1930
HIST 316: New Zealand Social History [Not offered in 2009]
HIST 328: Women's History in Aotearoa/New Zealand, c.1830-1945 [not offered in 2009]
HIST 412: Studies in the History of Sport and Spectatorship [not offered in 2009]
HIST 427: A Topic in New Zealand History 2: Empire and Desire: Gender and Imperialism, C. 1780-1920

And supervises research in BA (Hons) 489 research essays, MA and PhD theses. Postgraduate Coordinator 2005-2006

Research Areas

• Gender and women's history
• Cultural history of sport and spectating
• New Zealand history

Research

Convenor, Symposium 'Donald McLean-Te Makarini: Folders and Lives', 17 April 2009, Victoria University of Wellington

Convenor, Colloquium on Personal Correspondence: Historical Perspectives, Victoria University of Wellington, 20-21 July 2006, with Kate Hunter and Susan Foley. Lead speaker: Professor Cecile Dauphin, Centre de Recherches Historique, Paris.

Recent publications

• ‘Ways of Belonging: sporting spaces in New Zealand History’, chapter 12 in The New Oxford History of New Zealand, ed. Giselle Byrnes, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, forthcoming, publication date 22 July 2009. ISBN 9780195584714
• ‘Between Religion and Empire: Sarah Selwyn’s Aotearoa/New Zealand, Eton and Lichfield, England, c.1840s-1900’, Journal of the Canadian Historical Association online edition, Spring 2009. (Winner of Canadian Historical Association Prize 2009 for best article in journal.)
• ‘Intimacy of the envelope: fiction, commerce and empire in the correspondence of friends Mary Taylor and Charlotte Brontë, c.1845-1855, Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton, eds, Moving Subjects. Gender, Mobility and Intimacy in an Age of Empire, Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-252-07568-1
• ‘Suffrage, Gender and Sovereignty in New Zealand’, Irma Sulkunen, Seija-Leena Nevala-Nurmi, Pirjo Markkola, eds, Suffrage, Gender and Citizenship. International Perspectives on Parliamentary Reforms, Newcastle:  Cambridge Scholars, 2009. ISBN 1-4438-0162-3
• ‘Marching teams and modern girls: bodies and culture in interwar New Zealand ‘, Paula Birnbaum and Anna Novakov, eds, Essays on Women’s Artistic and Cultural Contributions 1919-1939: Expanded Social Roles for the New Woman following the First World War, Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-7734-4807-0
• ‘Two peoples, one museum: biculturalism and visitor ‘experience’ at Te Papa – ‘Our Place’, New Zealand’s new national museum’, Daniel Walkowitz and Lisa Maya Knauer, eds, Contested Histories in Public Space. Memory, space and nation, Chapel Hill: Duke University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8223-4236-6
• ‘Marching in unison, dressing in uniform: stepping out in style with marching teams’, Bronwyn Labrum, Fiona McKergow and Stephanie Gibson, eds, Looking Flash. Clothing in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2007, pp.186-205. ISBN 9781869403973
• Women Writing Home, 1700-1920. Female Correspondence across the British Empire, Volume 5 New Zealand, Pickering and Chatto, London, 2006, 434pp ISBN 10-1851967931
• 'Putting bodies on the line: marching spaces in Cold War culture', John Bale and Patricia Vertinsky, eds, Sites of Sport, Routledge, London, 2003, ISBN 07146 5343 8
• 'Emily's Dream: A women's memorial building and a history without walls. Citizenship and the politics of public remembrance in 1930s-40s New Zealand', M. Lake, K. Holmes and P. Grimshaw, eds, Women's Rights and Human Rights. International Historical Perspectives, Macmillan, London, 2000-2001
• 'Strangers at the hearth: the eclipse of domestic service in New Zealand homes c. 1830s-1940s', Barbara Brookes, ed, At Home in New Zealand. History, Houses, People, Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 2000
• 'Too many men and too few women: gender's 'fatal impact' in nineteenth-century colonies', Caroline Daley and Deborah Montgomerie, eds, The gendered kiwi, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 1999
• 'Race and Empire at "Our Place": New Zealand's new national museum', Radical History Review, 75 (Fall 1999), pp.80-91
• 'My Hand Will Write What My Heart Dictates'. The unsettled lives of women in nineteenth-century New Zealand as revealed to sisters, families and friends, with Frances Porter, Bridget Williams Books and Auckland University Press, Auckland, 1996
• The Vote, the Pill and the Demon Drink. A history of feminist writing in New Zealand, 1869-1993, edited and introduced, Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 1993
• Women in History 2. Essays on Women in New Zealand, edited with Barbara Brookes and Margaret Tennant, Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 1992
• The Book of New Zealand Women/Ko Kui Ma te Kaupapa, edited with Merimeri Penfold and Bridget Williams, Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 1991
• A Woman of Good Character. Single women as immigrant settlers in nineteenth century New Zealand, Allen & Unwin, Wellington, 1990
• Women in History. Essays on European Women in New Zealand, edited with Barbara Brookes and Margaret Tennant, Allen & Unwin/Port Nicholson Press, Wellington, 1986
• 'Ellen Silk and her sisters. Female emigration to the New World', London Feminist History Group, The Sexual Dynamics of History, Pluto Press, London, 1983

She holds office in the following organisations

• Member of the Special Committee for the Alexander Turnbull Library, a committee of the Trustees of the National Library, established under the National Library Act. 1993-2003
• Council, New Zealand Historical Association. (She was President of the NZHA, 1997-98).
• Co-ordinator of the New Zealand Women's History Network; member of the International Federation for Research in Women's History/Federation Internationale pour le Recherche en Histoire des Femmes.

Recent theses completed under supervision:

Susie C. Johnston, ‘Lighting up: the social history of smoking in New Zealand, c.1920-62’, MA thesis (awarded with Distinction), 2009.

Samuel G. Ritchie, ‘”The sound of the bell amidst the wilds”: Evangelical perceptions of northern Aotearoa/New Zealand Maori and the Aboriginal Peoples of Port Phillip, Australia, c.1820s-1840s’, MA thesis (awarded with Distinction), 2009.

Owen Mann, ‘Cricket and the Imperial Mission to New Zealand in the Edwardian Age. The Lord Hawke XI (1902-1903) and MCC (1906-07)’, 2008. (Winner of the 300/400 level F P Wilson Prize, 2008.)

Anna Monson, ‘The First Lady in New Zealand. Eleanor Roosevelt’s 1943 visit to New Zealand: historically significant or a blip on the radar?’, 2008.

Megan Simpson, ‘Radical spaces: New Zealand’s Resistance Bookshops, 1969-1977’, 2007.

Nadia J. Gush, ‘Cultural Fields of the Canterbury Plains: women and cultural citizenship in Canterbury c.1890-1940’, 2007. (Awarded Zander and Durden Families Prize.)

Fiona Warren, ‘Banning the Barmaid: The bar as a site of gender. New Zealand’s Licensing Amendment Act, 1910’, 2007

Susie Johnston, ‘The Mt Eden Prison Riot: crime and crisis in 1960s New Zealand’, 2006 (Winner of the 300/400 level F P Wilson prize, 2006.)

Alice Neville, ‘”Avaricious money-making harlots” and “innocent country boys exposed to temptation”: prostitution in New Zealand in World War I’, 2006.

Zane Bower, ‘Centrepoint Community: public perceptions, 1980-1990’, (with Malcolm McKinnon), 2006

Paul Christoffel, 'Removing temptation: New Zealand's alcohol restrictions 1881-2005', PhD (with Melanie Nolan), 2006

Debbie Stowe, 'John Pascoe's photography of the New Zealand home front during the Second World War: an historical analysis', MA (with Simone
Gigliotti), 2006

Rick Dodgson, 'A question of authority ­ the 1943 Furlough draft', 2006

Rebecca Lenihan, ‘Calamity in the capital: the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Wellington’, 2005.

Wendy Hart, 'A world without weapons, a world without want: a history of the Women's International league for Peace and Freedom, 1955-c.1991', MA (with Susan Grogan), 2005

Tim Shoebridge, 'Stories in books and stories of life: Helen Shaw, New Zealand writer c.1937 - 1985', MA (with Susan Grogan), 2004

Grace Millar, 'Because we are all women': the relationship between the ideas of women's liberation and the development of the New Zealand feminist movement, 1970-1979', MA, 2004

Ann S. Robinson, 'She knew it when she saw it. Feminist anti-pornography movements in the United States and New Zealand, 1878-1993', MA, 2001

Honours Research Essays:

Megan Simpson, 'Escaping the Isolated Suburbia Trip: Exploring the Alternative Lifestyle Movement in New Zealand in the 1970s'

Lisa Sacksen, 'The Very Error of the Moon, Dr Theodore Grant Gray and the Mental Defectives Amendment Act 1928'

Rebecca Lenihan, 'Calamity in the Capital: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Wellington'

Rosie Fyfe, 'The Beeville Community, c.1933-1973. Rural Radicals'

Rachel Patrick, 'Tuberculosis in Wellington: A Case Study, 1890-1920'
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