Charlotte Jean Macdonald FRSNZ is a New Zealand historian. After studying as an undergraduate at Massey University, she earned her PhD from University of Auckland and is now a professor at Victoria University of Wellington.
Charlotte Macdonald | |
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| Born | 1950 |
| Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand (2017) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Massey University (BA [Hons]) University of Auckland (PhD) |
| Thesis | Single Women as Immigrant Settlers in New Zealand, 1853–1871 (1986) |
| Doctoral advisor | Raewyn Dalziel |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Victoria University of Wellington |
| Main interests | 19th century colonies and empires New Zealand history Gender and women's history |
Early life
editMacdonald has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from Massey University, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Auckland.[1] The title of her 1986 doctoral thesis was Single Women as Immigrant Settlers in New Zealand, 1853–1871.[2]
Professional career
editMacdonald is a professor of history at Victoria University of Wellington. Her areas of expertise include: 19th century colonies and empires; New Zealand history; gender and women's history; and cultural history of bodies, modernity, sport and spectating.[1] Her work has been marked by innovative approaches to historical research methodology and story-telling. For example, in her 1990 book A Woman of Good Character, she analysed the data connected to the lives of over 4,000 women, in combination with more conventional historical archival work, to understand a large migrant group: single women who came to New Zealand in the 19th century.[3] She has also edited a number of collections of New Zealand women's historical primary material, greatly increasing the availability of such material.[4]
Macdonald wrote the Te Ara – Encyclopedia of New Zealand entry on "Women and Men" in New Zealand history.[5]
Macdonald was awarded a Marsden Fund grant in 2014 for a project entitled "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Settler: Garrison and Empire in the Nineteenth Century",[6] which has developed into the Soldiers of Empire project. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi in 2017.[3]
Selected works
edit- A Woman of Good Character: Single Women as Immigrant Settlers in Nineteenth-century New Zealand Allen & Unwin, 1990. ISBN 0046582584
- The Book of New Zealand Women / Ko kui ma te kaupapa with Merimeri Penfold, Bridget Williams Books, 1991. ISBN 0908912048
- The Vote, the Pill and the Demon Drink: A History of Feminist Writing in New Zealand, 1869–1993, Bridget Williams Books, 1993. ISBN 0908912404
- Women in History (editor, with Barbara Brookes and Margaret Tennant), Bridget Williams Books, 1992. ISBN 0908912234
- My Hand Will Write What my Heart Dictates, The Unsettled Lives of Women in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand, Bridget Williams Books, 1996. (editor, with Frances Porter), ISBN 9781869401290
- Women and Crime in New Zealand Society 1888–1910 BA (hons) thesis, Massey University.[7]
References
edit- ^ a b "Charlotte Macdonald | School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations | Victoria University of Wellington". www.victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
- ^ Macdonald, Charlotte (1986). Single women as immigrant settlers in New Zealand, 1853-1871 (Doctoral thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland. hdl:2292/1678.
- ^ a b "The 2017 Royal Society Te Apārangi New Fellows".
- ^ See for example My Hand Will Write What my Heart Dictates, The Unsettled Lives of Women in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand (1996), and The Vote the Pill and the Demon Drink (1993).
- ^ Macdonald, Charlotte. "Story: Women and men". Te Ara. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
- ^ "Marsden Funding Success for Victoria Researchers". 4 November 2014. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
- ^ Macdonald, Charlotte J (1977). Women and crime in New Zealand society 1888–1910: a research exercise presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts with Honours in History at Massey University. OCLC 154233091.