Member Profile

First Name

Kirstie

Surname

Ross

PHANZA Joining Date

2000

Region

Wellington

Specialities

Nature and popular culture;, leisure;, material culture;, natural and social history in museums

About Me

I joined PHANZA in 2000, after I completed my MA. I currently hold the position of Treasurer on the PHANZA committee.

Since 2004, I have worked as a history curator at Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand. Lately, I have been lead curator on a long term exhibition about New Zealand in the 20th century.

I studied at Auckland Unviersity in the 1980s, where I gained a BMus in compostion. In the 1990s, after living overseas, I returned to New Zealand and gained a BA then MA (Hons), again at Auckland. After submitting my MA thesis in history in 1999 I completed research for two Tribunal hearings, and was employed as the Ephemera Librarian in Sir George Grey Special Collections (Auckland City Libraries) from 2000-2004.

 

 

Publications and Research

 

Books

Going Bush: New Zealanders and Nature in the Twentieth Century, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 2008

Selected Articles

'Materialising Social History in Museums’, Te Ara – Journal of Museums Aotearoa, 32 (2007), pp. 1–4.

‘“Schooled by Nature”: Pakeha Tramping Between the Wars’, New Zealand Journal of History, 35, 1 (2002), pp. 51-65.

'The Two Lucys: The Collaborative Work of Lucy Cranwell and Lucy Moore, 1928-1938’, New Zealand Science Review, 58, 4 (2001), pp. 138-42.

Exhibitions (Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand)

Slice of Heaven: 20th Century Aotearoa

Enriching Fashion: Details in dress

Blood Earth Fire: Whangai Whenua Ahi Ka. The Transformation of Aotearoa New Zealand

 

 

The Scots in New Zealand

Out in the Street: New Zealand in the 1970s

 

 

 

 

History

Member for

3 years 36 weeks