Kate Hunter

Senior Lecturer

BA; PhD (Melbourne)

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Lectures in

HIST 222: Australian History
HIST 334: The Great Sacrifice: Social and Cultural Perspectives on World War One
HIST 422: A Topic in New Zealand History 1: In Their Place: Perspective on People and Land

Research Areas

• Australian History
• history of rural society
• gender history in colonial societies
• histories of rural women
• social history of WW1

Recent publications

• 'Rough riding: Aboriginal participation in rodeos and travelling shows to the 1950s' Aboriginal History, vol. 32, 2008, pp. 83-96
• ‘”Sleep on dear Ernie, your battles are o’er”: A glimpse of a mourning community. Invercargill, New Zealand, 1914-1925’, War in History, 14 (1): 36-62, 2007
• with Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, ‘Rural daughters in Australia, New Zealand & the United States: an historical perspective’ in Ruth Panelli, Samantha Punch, Elsbeth Robson (eds), Global Perspectives on Rural Childhood and Youth: Young Rural Lives, Routledge, London, 2007
• ‘What if New Zealand had joined the Australian Federation in 1901?’ in Stephen Levine (ed), New Zealand as it Might have Been, Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2006
• with Michael Symons (eds), Eating in, Dining Out. Proceedings of the New Zealand Culinary History Conference, 14&15 November 2005 , Symposium of Gastronomy, Wellington, 2006
• Father’s Right-Hand Man: Women on Australia’s Family Farms, 1880s to the 1920s, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2004

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