Associate Professor Angela Wanhalla

Angela’s research focuses on the intersections between gender, race and sexuality in colonial history, with a specific focus on the connections between race and intimacy within and across colonial cultures.

Between 2010-2012 she was co-investigator, with Professor Judy Bennett, on an archival and oral history-based research project concerned with exploring the fate of children born of American servicemen and indigenous women in the South Pacific Command during World War II. This project has resulted in a book, a website, and a documentary film.

Angela is a Partner Investigator on an Australian Research Council Discovery Project (2015-2018) on violence and intimacy in settler societies, she is an active member of the University of Otago’s Centre for Research on Colonial Culture a co-editor, of the New Zealand Journal of History and serves on the editorial boards of Australian Historical Studies and the Journal of Pacific History.