Angela Wanhalla Collection
Sarah Christie was a postdoctoral fellow in the History Programme at +?t-?kou Whakaihu Waka, where she completed her doctorate on the social and cultural histories of women in the workforce in New Zealand. She is currently a researcher at the Ng-?i Tahu Archive, Christchurch. Erica Newman (Ng-?puhi) is a senior lecturer at Te Tumu: School of M-?ori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies at +?t-?kou Whakaihu Waka. She researches adoption, wh-?ngai, kinship and identity (internationally and nationally) with a focus on Indigenous perspectives, and has published on transracial adoption in New Zealand. Erica was awarded a Marsden Fund Fast-Start grant to explore the intergenerational impact of the 1955 Adoption Act and to journey with descendants of M-?ori adoptees who are searching for their t+?rangawaewae. Lachy Paterson is emeritus professor at Te Tumu, +?t-?kou Whakaihu Waka, where he taught te reo M-?ori and M-?ori history. He researches M-?ori history, especially relating to newspapers and other texts in M-?ori, and the relationship between M-?ori and the government in the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century. Angela Wanhalla (Ng-?i Tahu, Ng-?i Te Ruahikihiki, P-?keh-?) is a professor in the History Programme, +?t-?kou Whakaihu Waka. Her primary research area is M-?ori women???s history. Her most recent book is Of Love and War: Pacific Brides of World War II (University of Nebraska Press, 2023). Ross Webb has a PhD from Victoria University of Wellington and is a historian with an interest in organised labour and oral history. He is principal researcher analyst in the Research Team at the Waitangi Tribunal Unit, and is working on a book, ???In Defence of Living Standards: The Federation of Labour, Politics, and Economic Crisis, 1975???1987???.