News

One of New Zealand’s best known specialists in modern German literature and the German connection with New Zealand and the Pacific has been promoted to Professor of German.  >>

Mike Rann, one of Australia’s most experienced parliamentarians, has joined the Political Studies Department as Visiting Senior Research Fellow  >>

Two professors in the Faculty of Arts, Stephen Davies and Rod Ellis, have been appointed to the rank of Distinguished Professor.  >>

Tagata Pasifika will showcase the traditional practice of the Samoan tatau.  >>

Political Studies PhD candidate Lyndon Burford has won a prestigious essay competition with his model for funding nuclear risk mitigation.  >>

Associate Professor Martin Wilkinson has recently published Ethics and the Acquisition of Organs.  >>

Dr Mark Busse of the Anthropology Department has been given a Marsden grant to study food security in Papua New Guinea (PNG).  >>

Two University of Auckland students have won both undergraduate scholarships offered across Australasia by the Boston Consulting Group.  >>

Professor Elizabeth Rankin from the Art History Department has curated a major exhibition in South Africa of one of their most acclaimed artists, Peter Clarke.  >>

Emily Perkins, who teaches in the English Department, is among the 2011 national Arts Laureates.  >>

Yale University has invited Professor Anthony Spalinger from the Department of Classics and Ancient History to present a week-long guest lecture series.  >>

Professor Annie Goldson has been named Best Director Documentary at the AFTAs.  >>

Rising star of New Zealand fiction, Eleanor Catton has been awarded the 2012 University of Auckland residency at the Michael King Writers’ Centre.  >>

Two important new books on culture have been written by academics from the Faculty of Arts.  >>

Professor of English Brian Boyd has won a significant Marsden grant to write a biography on philosopher Karl Popper.  >>

A growing interest in Islamic religion and its role in the contemporary world has resulted in The University of Auckland adding a course in Islam to the Bachelor of Theology degree.  >>

A 4000-year-old baby feeder has been donated to the Department of Classics and Ancient History.  >>

A prestigious Fulbright Senior Scholar Award has been awarded to Dr Jennifer Curtin.  >>

Chris Tucker from the Department of Philosophy will explore the connection between experience and rationality with a sought-after Marsden grant from the Royal Society of New Zealand.  >>

A prestigious Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University has been awarded to Max Harris, an Arts and Law graduate from The University of Auckland.  >>