Kathryn McKerral Hunter is an Australian–New Zealand academic historian, and is a full professor at the Victoria University of Wellington, specialising in the 19th and 20th century history of New Zealand and Australia, with a particular focus on the social history of the First World War, and the history of hunting in New Zealand. From 2017 until 2022 she was the director of the Stout Centre for New Zealand Studies.
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| Alma mater | University of Melbourne |
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| Institutions | Victoria University of Wellington |
Academic career
editHunter completed a Bachelor of Arts with Honours and a PhD titled Dutiful daughters and 'father's right-hand man': single white women in rural Victoria, 1880s to the 1920s at the University of Melbourne.[1] Hunter moved to New Zealand in 1995, and joined the faculty of Victoria University of Wellington.[2] She was the Director of the Stout Centre for New Zealand Studies from 2017 to 2022, and has been Head of the History Programme.[3][4][5] Hunter was appointed as a full professor in 2020. Hunter is an Honorary Research Associate at Te Papa Tongarewa.[6]
Hunter is interested in gender and race relations, and has written or co-authored books on the social history of the First World War, hunting in New Zealand, and women on Australian family farms.[7][5][8] Her interest in hunting arose due to marrying a hunter, and finding it confronting to encounter people with guns in New Zealand national parks, a situation that would not happen in Australia.[2] She describes hunting as central to the culture and colonisation of New Zealand.[2] She has also researched Middle Eastern cultural influences in Australasia.[9] In her inaugural professorial lecture, delivered in 2023, she reflected on the craft of being a historian, and how seemingly trivial pieces of information could direct historical enquiry.[10]
Selected works
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Authored and co-authored books
edit- Kate Hunter and Kirstie Ross. (2014) Holding on to Home: New Zealand Stories and Objects of the First World War. Te Papa Press. ISBN 9780987668851
- Kathryn M. Hunter. (2009) Hunting: A New Zealand History. Random House, Auckland, New Zealand ISBN 9781869791544
- Kathryn M. Hunter. (2004) Father’s Right-Hand Man: Women on Australia’s Family Farms, 1880s to the 1920s. Australian Scholarly Pub. ISBN 9781740970303
Journal articles
edit- Kathryn M. Hunter (September 2012). "New Zealand Hunters in Africa: At the Edges of the Empire of Nature". The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. 40 (3): 483–501. doi:10.1080/03086534.2012.712418. ISSN 0308-6534. Wikidata Q58545865.
- Kathryn Hunter (March 2017). "National and Imperial Belonging in Wartime: The Tangled Knot of Australians and New Zealanders as British Subjects during the Great War". Australian Journal of Politics and History. 63 (1): 31–44. doi:10.1111/AJPH.12321. ISSN 0004-9522. Wikidata Q126173806.
- Kathryn Hunter (January 2007). "'Sleep on dear Ernie, your battles are o'er': A Glimpse of a Mourning Community, Invercargill, New Zealand, 1914-1925". War in History. 14 (1): 36–62. doi:10.1177/0968344507071040. ISSN 0968-3445. Wikidata Q126173823.
- Kathryn M. Hunter (2 May 2019). "Furs in early twentieth-century New Zealand: ecology, war and fashion to the 1930s". History of Retailing and Consumption. 5 (2): 133–149. doi:10.1080/2373518X.2019.1611164. ISSN 2373-5171. Wikidata Q126173799.
- Kathryn M. Hunter; Emma Ward (2 January 2021). "An open window: women's work in the women's press in the aftermath of the First World War". First World War Studies. 12 (1): 17–33. doi:10.1080/19475020.2021.1986415. ISSN 1947-5020. Wikidata Q126173788.
References
edit- ^ Hunter, Kathryn McKerral (1998). Dutiful daughters and 'father's right-hand man': single white women in rural Victoria, 1880s to the 1920s (PhD thesis). University of Melbourne.
- ^ a b c Radio New Zealand (15 August 2009). "Kim Hill interviews Kate Hunter". RNZ Audio Player. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
- ^ "Holding on to Home: New Zealand Stories and Objects of the First World War | Te Papa". tepapa.govt.nz. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
- ^ Studies, Victoria University of Wellington Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Stout Research Centre for New Zealand (9 August 2023). "News | Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies | Te Herenga Waka". Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
- ^ a b "Kate Hunter, Author at Newsroom". Newsroom. 24 September 2023. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
- ^ "Holding on to Home: New Zealand Stories and Objects of the First World War | Te Papa". tepapa.govt.nz. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
- ^ Victoria University of Wellington. "Academic profile: Professor Kate Hunter". people.wgtn.ac.nz. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
- ^ NZ, envirohistory (29 January 2010). "An egalitarian paradise – hunting in New Zealand". envirohistory NZ. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
- ^ Victoria University of Wellington. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. School of History, Philosophy (21 June 2022). "History staff research interests | Te Kura Aro Whakamuri, Rapunga Whakaaro, Matai Tōrangapū me te Ao / School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations | Te Herenga Waka". Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
- ^ Wellington, Victoria University of (20 June 2022). "Sticking to her knitting: Reflections on a historian's craft | About us | Te Herenga Waka". Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
External links
edit- Sticking to her knitting: Reflections on a historian’s craft, inaugural professorial lecture by Kate Hunter, June 2023, via YouTube