New Zealand social and cultural history, with a special focus on the history of gender relations, Australasian history, history of leisure, history of the body.

Assoc. Professor Daley is currently working on a piece to be entitled 'Beauty Queens and Physique Kings'. This will be a book-length study of twentieth-century New Zealand society, viewed through the lens of beauties and bodies.

She is also researching a major new project on the history of everyday sexual behaviour in twentieth-century New Zealand. This project picks up on the ideas in her 2005 essay, 'Puritans and Pleasure Seekers' and asks what happens to our understanding of New Zealand's recent past if we consider the pleasure seekers alongside the puritans who are so prominent in our history books.

Current Supervision

BA (Hons) dissertations:

Lily Emerson, Milk and Mothering: The La Leche League New Zealand 

Hamish Fletcher, Nationalism and the Labour Government 

Willem van Gent, Conscientious Objection to Compulsory Trade Unionism in Late Twentieth-Century New Zealand 

MA theses:

Kate Jordan, 'A History of Gardening in Postwar New Zealand', MA thesis.

Clare Slako, 'Chautauqua: In the Space between New Zealand and the United States', MA thesis.

Doctoral theses:

Peter Hoar, '"In me are sounds embalmed": Recording Technologies and Musical Life in New Zealand, 18801949', PhD thesis.

Helen Laurenson, 'A Biography of the Queen City: A Social and Cultural History of Auckland 1890-1990', PhD thesis.

Tiopira McDowell, 'A History of the Maori Party and an Overview of Maori Engagement with Parliament and the Maori Seats', PhD thesis.

Recent Supervision

Marianne Schultz, 'From the Haka to Dancing with the Stars: New Zealand Men Dancing, 1905-2005', MLitt thesis, 2009

Charlotte Burgess, 'Youthful Romance and Sex in Interwar New Zealand', MA thesis, 2008.

Toby Powell, 'Historical Destiny? Christian Fundamentalism in New Zealand', 1970–2000, MA thesis, 2008.

Perrin Rowland, 'Entrée: A History of the Restaurant in New Zealand From the 1860s to the 1960s', MA thesis, 2008.

Courtney Evans, '"Not Aunt Daisy": Ambivalence in the Representation of Womanhood in Postwar New Zealand', MA thesis, 2005.

Timothy Frank, '"About Our Fathers' Business": Manhood and Masculinity in New Zealand', PhD thesis, 2004.

Toby Harper, 'Keeping the Faith: Religious Belief in 1920s New Zealand', MA thesis, 2006.

Nina Herriman, 'The Air Down Here: Global and Local Interpretations of New Zealand Popular Music, 1955 - 1977', MA thesis, 2004.

Emma Joyce, 'The Pursuit of Sun, Sand and Surf: Beach-going in New Zealand, 1910 - 1970', MA thesis, 2006.

Jacob Pollock, 'From Colony to Culture: Historiographical Discourse and Historical Identity in Aotearoa/New Zealand, 1883 - 2003', MA thesis, 2005.

Helen Alexandra Robinson, 'Meat Eating in New Zealand, 1945 - 2005: A Socio-Cultural History', MA thesis, 2005.

Perrin Rowland, 'A History of the Restaurant in New Zealand', MA thesis, 2008.

Bronwyn Wright, 'Exhibiting Pakeha Social History at the Auckland Museum', MA thesis, 2006. 

• Women and Empire, 1750–1939: Primary Sources on Gender and Anglo-Imperialism, Vol. II, New Zealand, London and New York, Routledge; Tokyo, Edition Synapse, 2009.
  
  
• ‘Modernity, Consumption and Leisure’, in Giselle Byrnes (ed.) The New Oxford History of New Zealand, Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 2009, pp.423–45.
  
  
• ‘New Zealand’, in Bonnie G. Smith (ed.) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2008.
  
  
• 'On the Beach: Or the "Unbearable Scandal" of Shrinking Swimwear', in Bronwyn Labrum, Fiona McKergow and Stephanie Gibson (eds), Looking Flash: Clothing in Aotearoa New Zealand, Auckland, Auckland University Press, 2007, pp.154–67.
  
  
• 'Puritans and Pleasure Seekers', in Allison Kirkman and Pat Maloney (eds), Sexualities in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Dunedin, Otago University Press, 2005, pp.47-62
  
  
• 'Women Endurance Swimmers: Dissolving Grease Suits and Decentring New Zealand History', Sporting Traditions, 21, 2005, pp.29-55.
  
  
• 'From Bush to Beach: Nudism in Australasia', Journal of Historical Geography, 31, 2005, pp.149 - 67.

• 'The invention of 1905' in Greg Ryan (ed.), Tackling Rugby Myths: Rugby and New Zealand Society 1854 - 2004. Dunedin, Otago University Press, 2005, pp.69 - 87.
  
  
• Leisure & Pleasure: Reshaping & Revealing the New Zealand Body 1900-1960. Auckland, Auckland University Press, 2003.
  
  
• 'The Strongman of Eugenics, Eugen Sandow', Australian Historical Studies, 120, 2002, pp.233-48.  
  
  
• 'The Body Builder and Beauty Contests', Journal of Australian Studies, 71, 2001, pp.55-66.
  
  
• [with Deborah Montgomerie], The Gendered Kiwi, Auckland, Auckland University Press, 1999.
  
  
• Girls and Women, Men and Boys: Gender in Taradale 1886-1930, Auckland, 1999.

History
Course				Title		Availability in 2010
HISTORY 705 A B				Writing New Zealand		Semester 1 and 2 (full year)