{{Short description|Professor of history in New Zealand}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2022}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=November 2022}} {{Infobox academic | name = Angela Wanhalla | image = Angela Wanhalla 2009 (cropped).jpg | alt = | caption = Wanhalla in 2009 | honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=NZL|FRSNZ|size=100%}} | alma_mater = University of Canterbury | thesis_title = Transgressing Boundaries: A History of the Mixed Descent Families of Maitapapa, Taieri, 1830–1940 | thesis_url = https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/946 | thesis_year = 2004 | doctoral_advisor = Katie Pickles | doctoral_students = | workplaces = University of Otago }} '''Angela Cheryl Wanhalla''' {{Post-nominals|country=NZL|FRSNZ}} is a professor of history at the University of Otago in New Zealand. Her book about interracial marriage in New Zealand won the 2014 Ernest Scott Prize. Wanhalla was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi in 2022.
== Academic career == Wanhalla is of Māori descent, and affiliates to the Kāi Te Ruahikihiki hapū of Kāi Tahu.<ref name="Otago profile"/> She grew up in Rolleston,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Gibb |first=John |date=29 August 2009 |title=Women researchers receive awards |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/women-researchers-receive-awards |access-date=17 November 2022 |website=Otago Daily Times |language=en}}</ref> and was educated at the University of Canterbury, completing a Bachelor's degree with honours in 1999, followed by a Master's degree in 2001, titled ''Gender, race and colonial identity : women and eugenics in New Zealand, 1918–1939.''<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Wanhalla |first=Angela |year=2001 |type=Masters thesis |title=Gender, race and colonial identity : women and eugenics in New Zealand, 1918-1939. |publisher=UC Research Repository, University of Canterbury |hdl=10092/4237 |doi=10.26021/3918 |url=https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/4237}}</ref> Her PhD thesis was completed in 2004, and was on the history of mixed descent families of Maitapapa from 1830 to 1940.<ref name="Otago profile">{{Cite web |title=Professor Angela Wanhalla |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/history/staff/otago036857.html |access-date=17 November 2022 |publisher=University of Otago}}</ref><ref>{{cite thesis |last=Wanhalla |first=Angela |year=2004 |type=Doctoral thesis |title=Transgressing Boundaries: A History of the Mixed Descent Families of Maitapapa, Taieri, 1830-1940 |publisher=UC Research Repository, University of Canterbury |hdl=10092/946 |doi=10.26021/4337 |url=https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/946}}</ref> After her PhD she was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Saskatchewan, where she held a Canada Research Chair in native–newcomer relations.<ref name=":0" />
Wanhalla was appointed a lecturer in history at the University of Otago in 2005, and rose to become a full professor there in February 2022.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=University of Otago |title=Monday 22 November 2021, Otago announces professorial promotions for 2022 |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/news/news/otago835020.html |access-date=17 November 2022 |publisher=University of Otago}}</ref>
Wanhalla's work focuses on gender and colonialism, and particularly the 'cross-cultural intimacy' of colonial and Indigenous societies in New Zealand and the Pacific. She investigated the relationships of US servicemen with Māori and Pasifika women in New Zealand as part of the Marsden project ''Mother's Darlings,'' led by Judith Bennett.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rudd |first=Allison |date=5 January 2010 |title=Pacific children of US servicemen for study |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/pacific-children-us-servicemen-study |access-date=17 November 2022 |website=Otago Daily Times |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Welcome to US Fathers of Pacific Children, University of Otago, New Zealand |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/usfathers/ |access-date=17 November 2022 |website=www.otago.ac.nz}}</ref> She is co-leader of the Marsden-funded project ''Te Hau Kāinga: Histories and Legacies of the Māori Home Front, 1939–45.''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Angela Wanhalla {{!}} Maori Home Front |url=https://www.maorihomefront.nz/en/about/angela-wanhalla/ |access-date=17 November 2022 |website=www.maorihomefront.nz |language=en-NZ}}</ref> Wanhalla has been a judge on the non-fiction panel of the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kidd |first=Rob |date=19 January 2019 |title=Heavy summer reading load for first-time book award judges |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/heavy-summer-reading-load-first-time-book-award-judges |access-date=17 November 2022 |website=Otago Daily Times |language=en}}</ref> is on the editorial boards of ''Australian Historical Studies'' and the ''Journal of Pacific History'', and is a co-editor of the ''New Zealand Journal of History''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Associate Professor Angela Wanhalla |publisher=Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga |url=https://www.maramatanga.co.nz/person/associate-professor-angela-wanhalla |access-date=17 November 2022}}</ref>
== Awards == Wanhalla was awarded the Rowheath Trust Award and the Carl Smith Medal in 2008, followed by an Early Career Research Award at the University of Otago in 2009.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Inter-racial Connections. Early Career Awards for Distinction in Research. |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/research/hekitenga2009/interracialconnections.html |access-date=17 November 2022 |publisher=University of Otago}}</ref>
In 2014, Wanhalla was awarded a Royal Society Te Apārangi Rutherford Fellowship, worth $800,000, for a project titled ''Marriage: The Politics of Private Life in New Zealand''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Otago Bulletin Board |date=2 October 2013 |title=Prestigious Rutherford Fellowships for Otago researchers |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/otagobulletin/news/otago055500.html |access-date=17 November 2022 |website=University of Otago |language=en-nz}}</ref> Her 2013 book ''Matters of the Heart: A History of Interracial Marriage in New Zealand'' won the 2014 Ernest Scott Prize, which is awarded annually for the most distinguished contribution to the history of Australia or New Zealand.<ref>{{Cite book |date=2013 |title=Matters of the Heart: A History of Interracial Marriage in New Zealand |url=https://aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/matters-of-the-heart-a-history-of-interracial-marriage-in-new-zealand/ |access-date=17 November 2022 |publisher=Auckland University Press}}</ref> The judges described the book as "a ground-breaking study of interracial relationships".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gibb |first=John |date=15 July 2014 |title=Australian history prize delights Dunedin academic |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/australian-history-prize-delights-dunedin-academic |access-date=17 November 2022 |website=Otago Daily Times |language=en}}</ref> Australian historian Ann McGrath wrote that "its particular achievement is that Wanhalla has carved a space for the history of intermarriage as a new genre of national history."<ref>{{Cite Q|Q57681455|type=Book review}}</ref>
In 2020, Wanhalla was named the Otago University Students' Association Supervisor of the Year. Wanhalla said "I love working with postgraduate students. It’s one of the best things about this job."<ref>{{Cite news |last=MacLean |first=Hamish |date=24 November 2020 |title=University supervisors recognised |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/university-supervisors-recognised |access-date=17 November 2022 |work=Otago Daily Times}}</ref>
Wanhalla was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi in 2022. Her nomination stated she "has successfully broadened understanding of how intimate relations, inclusive of affectionate bonds, sexual violence, and the emotional legacies of global war in indigenous societies, are deeply entwined with colonial policy and practice. She has approached these histories in award-winning innovative ways, combining archival research with visual and material culture and oral histories to tell new histories of New Zealand's colonial past from the perspectives of indigenous women and their communities".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Otago Bulletin Board |date=18 March 2022 |title=Seven Otago academics elected Royal Society Fellows |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/otagobulletin/news/otago838666.html |access-date=17 November 2022 |publisher=University of Otago |language=en-nz}}</ref>
== Selected publications == {{Scholia}} * {{Cite Q|Q115249693}} * {{Cite Q|Q115249686}} * {{Cite Q|Q115249726}} * {{Cite Q|Q115249692}} * {{Cite Q|Q113686173}}
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== External links ==
* [https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/who-we-are/our-people/our-fellows/new-fellow-seminars/2021-new-fellow-seminars/2021-professor-angela-wanhalla-frnz-3/ Wanhalla's new fellow's seminar] at the Royal Society Te Apārangi {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Wanhalla, Angela}} Category:New Zealand academics Category:New Zealand women academics Category:Academic staff of the University of Otago Category:University of Canterbury alumni Category:Academic staff of the University of Saskatchewan Category:21st-century New Zealand historians Category:Ngāi Tahu people Category:Living people Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand