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Associate Professor Lyndon Andrew Fraser

Contact

Department: History

Email: lyndon.fraser@canterbury.ac.nz

Direct Dial: +64 3 3695544

Office: Karl Popper 504A

Language: English

About
Supervision
Networks
Projects
Methods & Equipment

Fields of Research

  • Historical Anthropology
  • Public History
  • Ethnicity and Migration
  • Death, Mounring and Remembrance
  • Museum & Heritage Studies

Researcher Summary

I am a professional historian specializing in (a) nineteenth century colonial history with a focus on aspects of ethnicity and migration and (b) public history, both as a practitioner and teacher, with expertise in televisual histories, museums and heritage. The field of public history explores the uses of the past by the state and civil society. Those of us working in the field are variously located, in tertiary institutions and heritage parks, on local council teams or galleries, and in businesses or consultancies. We have our own professional organization: the Professional Historians’ Association of New Zealand (PHANZA). Much of my research takes place in this area, with recent work including the successful on-line Kiwi Sceptics series (for Air New Zealand) that featured the comedian Rhys Darby; the most recent series of Santer (BBC Northern Ireland), where I assisted with historical research and screen time; and the soon-to-be screened documentary The Nearest Place to Home (on the new Irish diaspora to several locations, including New Zealand).

Subject Area: Disciplines

  • Anthropology and Archaeology: Anthropology; Archaeology
  • History, History of Art, Classics and Curatorial Studies: Modern History: Australasia; Modern History: World; New Zealand History

Resources

  • Staff webpage
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Prizes and Awards

  • Historical and Philosophical Studies ( 2016 - present )
  • Human History ( 2014 - 2018)

Student Supervision

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    Current
  • PhD - Al-Soukkary W: Approaching Expressions of Impiety in Egypt
  • PhD - Averina-Lugova D: Crimea at a Time of Change: Urban Everyday Life, 1954-1964 (2019)
  • PhD - Herchenbach H: South Island Rock Culture (2019)
  • PhD - Jeune A: Issues of Race and Gender in Nineteenth Century Juvenile Mission Periodicals (2019)
  • PhD - Jon A: THE NEGOTIATION AND TOURISTIC AFFIRMATION OF A MARITIME REGIONAL IDENTITY - WITH A FOCUS ON THE HERITAGE SECTOR: OR, CASE STUDIES OF MARITIME HERITAGE AND PLACE-BASED IDENTITY FROM SOUTH-EASTERN NEW ZEALAND
  • PhD - Khan S: Crossing boundaries- exploring the importance and interplay of identity and location amongst second generation Indian and Pakistani Muslim migrants
  • PhD - Leggatt H: From Interment to Incineration: Technology, Modernity, and the Disposal of the Dead in New Zealand: 1870 to 1940
  • PhD - Lummis G: Imaging Kinsey: a man of many parts
  • PhD - Templeton A: The nature of the Home Rule movement in New Zealand: A comparative examination of the rhetoric employed by Irish MPs during their tours of Australasia in the 1880s
  • PhD - Watson K: Materialising Class in a New Colony: The Archaelogy of Domestic Buildings in Christchurch (2021)
  • Masters - Bright A: The reinvigoration of Aboriginality through performance: Cultural survival and Waggon-ma-gule
  • Masters - King K: A History of the Addington Cemetery
  • Masters - Rosevear E: The Mission Work of the Aranui Sisters of Mercy in Eastern Christchurch (2020)
  • Honours - Duston N: Experiences, Perspectives and Directions: New Zealand Historians and Shifts in New Zealand Historical Practice (2019)
  • Honours - Som N: A Medieval and Early Modern New Zealand: Bishop John Grimes, his collection and a study into collecting in New Zealand (2019)
  • Completed
  • PhD - Allan P: Once and Future Cathedral (2017)
  • PhD - Baird R: Oral Histories of New Zealand Migration to and from Australia: late 1960s to early 1990s (2012)
  • PhD - Bose C: Where is craft located? : conversations about work, home and history : an ethnography with artisans in Telangana, India (2016)
  • PhD - Comer D: Migration and identity in the personal essay (2015)
  • PhD - Gilbert J: The history of gangs in New Zealand (2011)
  • PhD - Harrington-Watt K: "Still we live on" : the transfiguration of colonial indentured labour photographs in Mauritius (2016)
  • PhD - Jolley A: The role of place in the field experiences of geology undergraduate students (2017)
  • PhD - Latu P: Tala-Tuku-Fakaholo (History of Tonga): An Aler-native Oceania Method of Graphing the History (Historiography) and Remaking of Tonga's Past from their own story (intangible) and (tangible) material culture (2017)
  • PhD - Theilade K: Performing sexuality in New Zealand and Denmark: A comparative study of tertiary students' discussions of sexual negotiations (2010)
  • Masters - Ansley A: How youth engage with ANZAC Day (2018)
  • Masters - Bailey J: An Oral History of the Christchurch Jazz Community (2017)
  • Masters - Edingshaus E: The Munich Oktoberfest – Generator and vehicle of Bavarianness (2007)
  • Masters - Edingshaus E: The Munich Oktoberfest – Generator and vehicle of Bavarianness (2007)
  • Masters - Elley B: The New Gnostics: The Semiotics of the Hipster (2014)
  • Masters - Gallagher J: Pakeha poetics : a socio-historical study of pakeha landscape mythology (2014)
  • Masters - Harrington-Watt K: Vernacular Photographs as Privileged Objects: The Social Relationships of Photographs in the Homes of Gujarati New Zealanders (2012)
  • Masters - Kahi H: Negotiating race and racism in New Zealand rugby: Club rugby players talk rugby (2017)
  • Masters - Larsen R: “I’ll tell me Ma’ when I get home”: Female Irish Migration to Christchurch, New Zealand from 2000-2016 (2017)
  • Masters - McCusker N: Performance, Art and Transgression in Dr Sketchy’s Anti-Art School (2012)
  • Masters - Morrison M: The 1981 Springbok Tour and the Everyday (2017)
  • Masters - Seumanutafa H: Museums and the Senses (2014)
  • Masters - Smith H: Ritual Murder in C13th England (2017)
  • Masters - Symon T: A History of a Local Prison (2012)
  • Masters - Whiting P: Four Avenues: A school without walls? A social history of Four Avenues Alternative School in Christchurch, New Zealand (2004)
  • Masters - Yanicki S: Social Networks in Aranui (2013)
  • Masters - Yao Y: Education Among the Maasai in Tanzania (2017)
  • Honours - Bonnett D: NZ's Egalitarian Myth and Patterns of Inequality in Historical Perspective (2013)
  • Honours - Boyle C: Class in New Zealand (2013)
  • Honours - Burlinson L: Animal Practices and Ethnicity (2010)
  • Honours - Chase A: Freedom, Fear and Finances, the Politics of Deinstitutionalisation in New Zealand from 1960 to 1990: With a Special Focus on the Sunnyside Hospital in Christchurch (2017)
  • Honours - Coker V: Native Land Title in Australia: A Comparison of Two Cases (2009)
  • Honours - Duff A: A Genocide Denied: The ‘half-castes’ of Australia during the Stolen Generations of 1905-1970 as genocide (2016)
  • Honours - Herschenbach H: Finding Peter Gutteridge (2015)
  • Honours - Hickland S: The Repatriation of Wairau Bar Koiwi Tangata (2013)
  • Honours - Irwin A: Migrating from Ulster to Mid-Canterbury in the mid-nineteenth century: a case study. (2010)
  • Honours - Jackson K: Filipina Brides in New Zealand: Experiences of cross-cultural negotiation, prejudice, alienation and self-determination (2017)
  • Honours - Johns S: A Comparative Study of Suspect Minorities in Britain (2009)
  • Honours - Julian R: Women, Migration, and Madness: A case study of Seaview Lunatic Asylum, 1872-1915 (2016)
  • Honours - Legat A: A Case Study of a Nineteenth-Century Migrant Woman (2009)
  • Honours - Mackenzie-Mol A: A History of Archaeology in NZ (2013)
  • Honours - Martens P: ‘If we never meet again’: the migration experiences of Emma Barker in nineteenth-century Canterbury (2015)
  • Honours - McBride B: The Decline of Mining in Blackball: A Oral History (2015)
  • Honours - McCullough T: Onawe Pa (2013)
  • Honours - Miller P: Barbadoes Street Cemetery: Death in Victorian and Edwardian Colonial Christchurch (2016)
  • Honours - Richards D: Chinese Migration and Transnationalism (2008)
  • Honours - Rosevear E: Women's Everyday Lives on Nineteenth-Century Voyages to Canterbury
  • Honours - Seumanutafa H: Fluidity: Migration, Music and Fa-aSamoa in Christchurch (2012)
  • Honours - Stott E: A History of Changes to NZ Immigration Policy, c. 1970-1987 (2013)
  • Honours - Sullivan R: Changes in culture and identity resulting from interactions between Europeans and Maori 1769 –1840: an investigation into the development of self-determination in early New Zealand capitalist society. (2011)
  • Honours - Swann S: Ethnicity and Multiple Identities (2010)
  • Honours - Symon T: Climbing Maori Prison Populations Since the 1950s (2010)
  • Honours - Webster N: Excising Humanity: Australian Border Control and Racial Exclusion (2009)
  • Honours - Wharehinga R: A Multi-Systemic Approach to Maori in Education 2000-2009 (2011)
  • Honours - Wi-Kaitaia M: Te Putahitanga o Rehua: Maori Trade Training Experiences and Impact
  • Honours - Williams M: He aha te kai o te rangatira i te ao hurihuri? What is the food of chiefs in a changing world?: Leadership in Te Tau Ihu in the Late Twentieth Century (2016)
  • Honours - Wong J: A Chinese Diaspora? (2009)
  • Honours - Yanicki S: The Road to Health is Paved with Good Intentions: (2009)
  • Honours - Yao Y: Understanding Poverty Related Child Labour (2011)

Editorial Work

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  • Australasian Journal of Irish Studies Editorial Board Member ( 2006 - 2023)
  • New Zealand Journal of History Editor ( 2010 - 2023)
  • New Zealand Journal of History Editor ( 2012 - 2018)

Review and Refereeing

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  • Australasian Journal of American Studies (AJAS) ( 1997 - 1998)
  • Australasian Journal of American Studies (AJAS) ( 1997 - 2002)
  • Australasian Journal of American Studies (AJAS) ( 1997 - 2002)
  • Australasian Journal of Irish Studies ( 2007 - 2023)
  • Brad Patterson (ed), The Irish in New Zealand: Historical Contexts and Perspectives ( 2002 )
  • Brad Patterson (ed.), The Irish in New Zealand: Historical Contexts and Perspectives ( 1997 - 2002)
  • Irish Historical Studies ( 2002 - 2023)
  • Irish Historical Studies ( 1997 - 2002)
  • Social History of Medicine ( 2014 - 2015)
  • Studies in Travel Writing ( 2009 - 2010)

Affiliations

  • Canterbury Historical Association (CHA) (Professional Organisation): Member
  • Canterbury Museum (Teaching/Research Organisation): Teaching via Memorandum of Understanding
  • Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand (ISAANZ) (Professional Organisation): Member
  • New Zealand Historical Association (NZHA) (Professional Organisation): Member
  • New Zealand Society of Genealogists (NZSG) (Professional Organisation): Member
  • Stout Centre, Victoria University of Wellington (Teaching/Research Organisation): Collaborative research
  • University of Aberdeen (Teaching/Research Organisation): Collaborative research
  • University of Melbourne (Teaching/Research Organisation): Collaborative research
  • University of Ulster (Teaching/Research Organisation): Collaborative research

Research Groups

  • Social Science Research Centre (SSRC)

Future Research

  • Memento Mori: Objects of Remembrance from the Cantebrury Earthquakes
  • An Oral History Irish Postwar Migration to Australia and New Zealand
  • Death and Mourning in New Zealand to 1918

Key Methodologies

  • Historical Ethnography
  • Oral History
  • Documentary Research
  • Heritage Assessment
  • Material Analysis
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