Charlotte Macdonald FRSNZ is Professor Emerita of History at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington and one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s leading historians. She is the author and co-editor of several award-winning books that have reshaped understandings of New Zealand’s past. Her work is widely recognised for its methodological innovation and for bringing new voices and perspectives into historical view.
Professor Macdonald has held a range of leadership roles, including President of the New Zealand Historical Association and a recent term as Chair of the Academy Executive Committee of the Royal Society Te Apārangi. A Fellow of the Royal Society, she is also a board member of the UNESCO Memory of the World Trust, New Zealand convenor for the International Federation for Research in Women’s History, and a member of the editorial board of the British Journal for Military History.
Publications include
Strong, Beautiful and Modern: National Fitness in Britain, New Zealand, Australia and Canada, 1935–1960 (Bridget Williams Books, 2011)
My Hand Will Write What My Heart Dictates. The Unsettled Lives of Women in Nineteenth-century New Zealand as Revealed to Sisters, Families and Friends, with Frances Porter (Bridget Williams Books/Auckland University Press, 1996)
The Vote, the Pill and the Demon Drink. A History of Feminist Writing in New Zealand, 1869–1993, edited and introduced (Bridget Williams Books, 1993)
Women in History 2. Essays on Women in New Zealand, edited with Barbara Brookes and Margaret Tennant (Bridget Williams Books, 1992)
The Book of New Zealand Women/Ko Kui Ma te Kaupapa, edited with Merimeri Penfold and Bridget Williams (Bridget Williams Books, 1991)
A Woman of Good Character. Single Women as Immigrant Settlers in Nineteenth Century New Zealand (Allen & Unwin/Bridget Williams Books, 1990)
Women in History. Essays on European Women in New Zealand, edited with Barbara Brookes and Margaret Tennant (Allen & Unwin/Port Nicholson Press, Wellington, 1986)