Te Hau Kāinga

About the Author

Sarah Christie was a postdoctoral fellow in the History Programme at Ōtākou 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 Ngāi Tahu Archive, Christchurch.

Erica Newman (Ngāpuhi) is a senior lecturer at Te Tumu: School of Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka. She researches adoption, whāngai, 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 Māori adoptees who are searching for their tūrangawaewae.

Lachy Paterson is emeritus professor at Te Tumu, Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka, where he taught te reo Māori and Māori history. He researches Māori history, especially relating to newspapers and other texts in Māori, and the relationship between Māori and the government in the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century.

Angela Wanhalla (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāi Te Ruahikihiki, Pākehā) is a professor in the History Programme, Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka. Her primary research area is Māori 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’.