Postgraduate students

Postgraduate study in History allows you to extend your skills and pursue specialised areas of historical research to suit your interests.

Teaching and research opportunities reflect staff research expertise in History:

• New Zealand history - social, political and cultural
• Maori history
• modern US history
• the Pacific Islands and their historical development
• Australian history
• Chinese, Japanese and South-East Asian history
• European history - medieval, early modern and modern
• thematic areas of history: sexuality, science and technology, medicine, gender, the environment, race, religion and film.

You are encouraged to become familiar with current debates on the nature of history and with the major theoretical developments which have influenced the field in the past 20 years.

Find out more about postgraduate programmes in History.

Supervision

For postgraduate research you will work closely with one or more academic staff. We encourage you to contact potential supervisors to discuss research options. You can see staff research and supervision profiles through our staff webpage.

Recent MA thesis topics