Conference Bursaries
2025 NZHA conference bursaries
The NZHA is delighted to award financial support for 21 postgraduate and unfunded speakers at the 2025 conference.
Congratulations to the recipients. Please come along to hear them present at the conference!
- Aaron Jackson, ‘Caught between Nuclear Nationalisms: La Force de Frappe. Kiwi Identity, and the US Nuclear Deterrent’
- Eleanor Black, ‘Unreliable narrators?: Using gossip in historical research’
- Emma Robinson, ‘Form and Rhythm: Celebrating Freedom in the Art of A. Lois White’
- Ereni Pūtere, ‘Te Wehewehe: Reconsidering Ethnographic Legacies’
- Georgina White, ‘The in-betweeners: Telling new religious histories’
- Hāwea Apiata, ‘Unruly Native Collaborations’
- Jennifer Marsh, ‘Tūhura Histories’
- Karen Blennerhassett, ‘Reframing First Encounters: Storytelling Through Contemporary Visual Art’
- Leanne Miranda, ‘Chai pe Charcha: Migrant Community Kitchens as History-Making Spaces in Te Whanganui-a-Tara’
- Leng Rui, ‘Roots and Routes: Chinese Education Among Immigrants in New Zealand, 1900s – 1950s’
- Miriam Olds Spence, ‘Paul Olds (1922–1976) and the First 1951 National Art Gallery Travelling Scholarship’
- Natalie Looyer, ‘The Ascendancy and Legacy of Women Climbing in Aotearoa’
- Noah Szajowitz, ‘The Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps, Anti-Aircraft Guns, and Pioneering Wartime Roles in New Zealand’
- Rebecca Lenihan, ‘Exploring Colonial Newspaper Sentiment: A Computational Approach to Imperial Soldiers in 1860s New Zealand’
- Sarah Maria Noske, ‘The North German Missionary Society’s Connection to New Zealand in the 1840s’
- Sarah Waterman, ‘Tūhura Histories’
- Sian Abel, ‘Flora Scales in Europe 1928-1939: The Emergence of a New Zealand Modernist’
- Somia Tasneem, ‘Tracing the Crescent: A Digital Exploration of Muslim Histories, Hopes, and Identities in Aotearoa New Zealand’
- Tarryn Ryan, ‘Horomamae: Poipoia te punui, koi karo te tītī’
- Will Hansen, ‘Protest Histories’
- Xavier Walsh, ‘Rhetoric and Retort: A public history of Parliamentary discourse in Aotearoa New Zealand’s industrial relations debates’
Original Message
The New Zealand Historical Association is delighted to offer contestable funding to support the participation of postgraduate students, unwaged and unfunded speakers.
This funding can cover
- Domestic travel + transfers
- University accommodation for the duration of the conference at O’Rorke Hall
- Conference fees
You will be asked for
- Your name
- Institutional affiliation (if any)
- If you are applying as a postgraduate student, unwaged or an unfunded speaker
- To provide a budget for your travel arrangements if you are applying for travel funding
- Your conference abstract
- Your 250 word bio
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