About the Department of History
The Department of History at The University of Auckland is New Zealand’s largest history department.
Our academic staff are known nationally and internationally for their accomplishments in teaching, research and graduate supervision.
History encompasses every aspect of life in the past. By understanding the past you can discover how it influences the present and can shape the future.
Our teaching and research covers a wide range of historical fields and time periods:
- New Zealand history
- Māori and indigenous history
- the history of pre-modern and modern Europe
- United States history
- the history of Asia, Australia and the Pacific.
Staff research expertise includes sexual histories, the history of medicine, the medieval and early modern world, and transnational and comparative histories. International collaboration and exchange is a high priority for us.
History staff and student research
The Department of History houses New Zealand's leading historical journal, the New Zealand Journal of History.
Professor Linda Bryder
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Professor Jonathan Scott
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