STOUT RESEARCH CENTRE FOR NEW ZEALAND STUDIES

Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies

The Stout Research Centre was established to encourage scholarly inquiry into New Zealand society, history and culture.

We are part of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Victoria University and offer postgraduate degrees in History, New Zealand Literature and New Zealand Studies. We host independent scholars from the community and the JD Stout Fellow.

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Events

Mar to May Seminar Series New Generation Politics in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Date: Begins Wednesday 24 March 2010
Time: 4.10pm
Venue: Stout Research Centre
12 Waiteata Road, Kelburn
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News

Maori and the State: A new book by Richard Hill

Professor Richard Hill's latest publication is "Maori and the State: Crown-Maori Relations in New Zealand/Aotearoa 1950-2000." Published by Victoria University Press. 
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Why Europe? European expansion, industrialization, and divergence.

Professor James Belich has been awarded a Marsden grant to carry out research on the European expansion from 1500. 
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John Newton – JD Stout Fellow

The JD Stout Fellow for 2010 is Dr John Newton, author of The Double Rainbow: James K. Baxter, Ngāti Hau and the Jerusalem Commune (VUP 2009). John is conducting research for a book about immigration to New Zealand at the time of World War II.

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Martin Fisher, PhD Candidate

Martin Fisher was awarded a Vice-Chancellor’s Strategic Scholarship to study the Treaty of Waitangi settlement process from an international perspective. His project has important implications for traditional Anglo settler societies that are still grappling with the difficulties of their turbulent past.

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