Malcolm McKinnon

Adjunct Research Associate

B A (Hons) (Victoria University)
M Phil (Oxford)
PhD (Victoria)

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Malcolm McKinnon is an adjunct research associate in the School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations. He taught New Zealand history and international relations in the History Department at Victoria from 1976-1990; he has taught courses and supervised research in the History Programme on a number of occasions in the last ten years.

He was editor of the New Zealand Historical Atlas/Ko Papatuanuku e Takoto Nei, published in 1997. He wrote the text for the Alexander Turnbull Library’s millennium website Te Waimano, and published the first history of the New Zealand Treasury in 2003. Currently he is completing a study of the impact of globalization and modernity on six middle-sized cities in the non-western world; he also writes for the Places theme for Te Ara, the online New Zealand encyclopedia, for the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.

Malcolm has held Harkness and Fulbright scholarships in the United States and a Japan Foundation fellowship at Kyushu University, Fukuoka. He is a vice president of the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs and on the editorial committee of its journal, New Zealand International Review. He is currently president of PHANZA, the Professional Historians Association of New Zealand/Aotearoa.

Current research areas

Geography and explanation in history: the shaping of New Zealand; the Western and the non-western world. Biography, history and political economy: McLean and the colonization of the North Island; the Downie Stewarts and early 20 th century New Zealand

Principal publications

• Independence and Foreign Policy: New Zealand in the world since 1935, Auckland, Auckland University Press, 1993
• Immigrants and citizens: New Zealanders and Asian immigration in historical context , Wellington, Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University, 1996
• New Zealand historical atlas/Ko Papatuanuku e takoto nei , Auckland, David Bateman Ltd, 1997
• Treasury: the New Zealand Treasury, 1840-2000 , Auckland, Auckland University Press, 2003