Member Profile

First Name

Michelle Ann

Surname

Smith

PHANZA Joining Date

2010

Region

Auckland

Specialities

Medieval and sixteenth-century Scottish history, Gender history, Papakura and Districts history

About Me

I have just completed a full-time PhD at the Unversity of Auckland, titled 'Assessing Gender in the Construction of Scottish Identity c.1286-c.1586 and which was conferred in September 2010.  I have recently been contracted to the Papakura Museum as an Assistant Curator and have been a volunteer researcher for the museum since early 2010.  I am currently working on a postdoctoral project on the Early Settler Families in Papakura and Drury, and a contract project researching the main businesses of Papakura between 1860 and 1930. I completed a BA (History and Education) in 1999 and a BA Honours (History) in 2005, at the University of Auckland.  I have also worked in the disability sector for a number of years as an Educator and in Commuity Development.  Alongside my specialities I have an interest in NZ History, general medieval and early modern history, disability history, and through my work at the Papakura Museum I have become interested in NZ military history. I am also a keen genealogist.

Publications and Research

Ewan, Elizabeth, Jodi Campbell and Heather Parker, eds, Scottish Identity book project, chapter proposal has been accepted.

‘Gendering the Foundation Myths of Scotland’, in P. O’Neill, ed., Celts in Legend and Reality: Proceedings of the Sixth Celtic Conference, University of Sydney, 2010.

Book Review, Spinks, Jennifer, Monstrous Births and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century

Germany (Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World 5), London, Pickering and Chatto,

2009, (forthcoming Parergon).

Book Review, Ewan, Elizabeth and Janay Nugent, eds, Finding the Family in Medieval and

Early Modern Scotland (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World), Aldershot,

Ashgate, 2008, Parergon, 26, 1, 2009, pp. 219-221.

Book Review, Davis, Kathleen, Periodization and Sovereignty: How Ideas of Feudalism and

Secularization Govern the Politics of Time (Middle Ages series), Philadelphia, University of

Pennsylvania Press, 2008, Parergon, 25, 2, 2008, pp. 141-143.

‘Neuromuscular Disorders (2)’, New Zealand Family Physician, 28, 3, June 2001, pp. 7-8.

‘Neuromuscular Disorders (1)’, New Zealand Family Physician, 28, 2, April 2001, pp. 19-22.

History

Member for

1 year 47 weeks