Maartje Abbenhuis is a historian of war, peace, neutrality and international ideas, particularly in the period 1815 - 1918. She is the author of several books and edited collections, including: The Art of Staying Neutral: The Netherlands in the First World War, 1914 - 1918 (2006); An Age of Neutrals: Great Power Politics 1815 - 1914 (2014, Choice Outstanding Academic Title); The Hague Conferences in International Politics 1898-1915 (2018); (with Gordon Morrell) The First Age of Industrial Globalisation: An International History 1815-1918 (2019);  (with Prof. Ismee Tames) Global War, Global Catastrophe: Neutrals, Belligerents and the Transformation of the First World War (2021, which won the Norman Tomlinson Prize). Her latest book -The Dum-Dum Bullet: A Lethal History was published in 2026 by Cambridge University Press. She is the recipient of two Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Grants: one in 2004 for work on the borderlands of the Netherlands in the First World War and the other in 2014 for her Hague conferences project. In 2018, she spent a semester as a Residential Fellow at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies in Amsterdam.

Twentieth-century French literature, Algerian literature, women writers, violence in literature, love in literature, translating conflict.

Qualifications:
NAATI (Fr-Eng), BA, MA, PhD/DNR

Areas of Expertise:
NAATI accredited translator from French-English.

Media Keywords:
Algerian literature, French literature, French literature in the 20th Century , Violence in literature, Women writers

Distinctions/Honours:

• Australian Research Council Discovery Grant 2025
• Mansfield Prize for best article in Journal of Religious History

• Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Grant 2017
• Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fast-Start Grant 2008
  
  
  Qualifications:
  MA (Auckland) PhD (Princeton)
  
  Media Keywords:
  Christianity in Late Antique Gaul, Christianity in Gaul, Preaching in Late Antique Gaul, Early Middle Ages, History of Religion, Slavery

Academic appointments

2022- Professor of History
2014-2023: Head of the School of Humanities Te Puna Aronui, The University of Auckland
2006-2021: Associate Professor in History, The University of Auckland
1999-2005: Senior Lecturer in History, The University of Auckland
1992-1998: Lecturer in History, The University of Auckland
1990-1991: Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Missouri-Columbia.
1989-1990: Lecturer, Charles Sturt University Bathurst, NSW.

Awards and distinctions

2023: Humanities Research Centre Freilich Fellowship, Australian National University.
2011: Visiting Fellow, Trinity College Dublin Long Room Hub.
2007: Giovanni Costigan Lecturer, The University of Washington.
2005-6: Honorary Visiting Senior Fellow, Institute of Irish Studies, The University of Liverpool.
1998: Visiting Scholar, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University.
1990: Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship, Australian-American Educational Foundation.

Committee/Professional groups/Services:

2021- 2023 President of the Irish Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand (ISAANZ)
2014-present Editorial Advisory Board, Australian Journal of Irish Studies
Member the Australian Historical Association.


Qualifications:
BA, PhD (UNSW)

Areas of Expertise:
Australian history, history of migration, oceanic history, Irish history, historical theory and method.

Media Keywords:
Australian history, Irish history, History of migration

Responsibilities:
Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning), Faculty of Arts and Education

Committee/Professional groups/Services:
University Teaching and Learning Quality Committee
University Library Committee


Qualifications:
PhD (Auckland)

Media Keywords:
Crusades, Cultural history of Medieval and Early Modern Europe, History of emotions, Anglo-Norman period in England, Early modern Europe, Medieval Europe

I am currently the Major and Specialisation Leader for Gender Studies, and a Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History. I have previously served as Associate Dean Equity and Associate Dean Teaching & Learning (Acting) in the Faculty of Arts. I research and publish across a range of fields, spanning inclusive pedagogy for teaching Humanities (particularly languages), Gender Studies, ancient Greek and Roman culture, and the history of women and sexuality both in antiquity and more recent times.

I am currently working on a research project on Taylor Swift and feminism, examining her use of ancient and modern literature in the context of modern feminism and popular culture. 

I teach and supervise across the ancient Roman and Greek worlds, Classical Reception, and Gender studies with a particular passion for Latin literature, Greco-Roman mythology, and gender and sexuality, both in the Greco-Roman world itself, and later responses to it. I am also available to supervise projects on inclusive Humanities teaching.

Distinctions/Honours:

2020 National Tertiary Teaching Award for Sustained Excellence (NTTEA) from Ako Aotearoa ($20,000).

Member of the Ako Arts team which received a 2019 Faculty of Arts Staff Excellence award for Rangatiratanga, for our role piloting Ako-led courses.

Awarded a 2016 Faculty of Arts Early Career Excellence in Teaching Award.

I am a historian of nineteenth-century Japan, specialising in the social history of medicine. I have taught a wide range of courses in Japanese Studies, Asian Studies, History, and Japanese language.

Distinctions/Honours:
2019 National Museum of Japanese History Invited Fellow
2013 Japan Foundation Short-term Fellowship
2006 University of Auckland Early Career Research Excellence Award

Professional Activities
I am a member of the New Zealand Asian Studies Association and the Japanese Studies Association of Australia.
I serve as as the History editor for the Australian journal 'Japanese Studies'. (https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/cjst20)

Dr Mi Yung Park is Associate Professor of Korean Studies in the School of Humanities at the University of Auckland. She is a sociolinguist, specializing in the language maintenance of the East Asian languages both in origin and diasporic contexts. As an interdiscplinary scholar researching language, migration, and identity, she uses qualitative methodologies (including discourse analytic, narrative, and ethnographic approaches) to examine the relationship between heritage language practices and identity construction. She has extensive experience in working with understudied and underrepresented East Asian and Southeast Asian speaking communities, including their mixed-heritage children. Her current research focuses on sociolinguistics, heritage language maintenance, language and identity, and linguistic diversity and discrimination in higher education.

Her work has appeared in such journals as International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Language and Education, Language, Culture and Curriculum, Journal of Language, Identity & Education, Applied Linguistics Review, International Multilingual Research Journal, Language and Intercultural Communication, Language Awareness, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, Multilingua, Classroom Discourse, Journal of Pragmatics, and Australian Review of Applied Linguistics.

She is Associate Editor of the Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices and editorial board member of Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, Korean Linguistics, and Hallyu: The Korean Wave. 

She served as the Chair of Asian Studies from 2023 to 2025. She is currently serving as the Vice President of The Korean Studies Association of Australasia (KSAA). 

Academic/Professional Awards/Recognition 

2025 Fellowship, Fudan University, China
2024 Fellowship, Academy of Korean Studies, South Korea
2023 Sustained Excellence in Teaching Award, Faculty of Arts, University of Auckland

Academic/Professional Responsibilities 

2023-2025   Major/Specialisation Leader (Chair), Asian Studies, University of Auckland 

2025–           Chair of the Resolutions Committee, The American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL)

2025              Academic Leaders Programme, University of Auckland 

2024–2025  Mentor, Association of Asian Social Science Research Councils (AASSREC) Mentoring Program 
2024–2025  Mentor, Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) Asia Pacific Women in Leadership Mentoring Program
2024–           Grant Review Committee, The Association of Asian Social Science Research Councils (AASREC)
2023–           Executive Committee, The Korean Studies Association of Australasia (KSAA)


Recent books:

• Barkhuizen, G., Park, M. Y., & May, S. (Eds.). (2026). Mobilizing multilingual identities: Language policy, teaching, and learning. Routledge. 
• Fraschini, N., & Park, M. Y. (Eds.). (in press). Language and identity in Korean and diasporic contexts. Multilingual Matters. 

Articles/chapters:

• Park, M. Y., Ha, P., Jee, M. J., & May, S. (2026). Popular culture, language learning, and (de)motivation: The experiences of Korean as a foreign language students in Australia and New Zealand. International Multilingual Research Journal.
• Park, M. Y. (2026). The role of university peer mentoring in heritage language identity construction in diasporic contexts. International Journal of Applied Linguistics. 
• Ruane, C., & Park, M. Y. (2026). Exploring linguistic diversity in a globalising world: Korean bilinguals' perspectives on varieties of English. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. 
• May, S., Keegan, P., & Park, M. Y. (2026). Countering colonialingualism and promoting Indigenous language revitalization in higher education. In P. Meighan & L. Veliz (Eds.), Countering colonialingualism: Research practices and pedagogies from the Global South. Routledge. [Invited chapter]
• May, S., & Park, M. Y. (2026). Linguistic racism and discrimination in higher education. In L. Veliz, P. Meighan, W. Shah, & X. Gao (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of racial and epistemic inequities in TESOL and Applied Linguistics. Routledge. [Invited chapter]

Forthcoming publications

• Park, M. Y., & Brown, L. (in press/2026). Linguistic discrimination and subordination: North Korean refugees in South Korea. In Brown, L., & Chen, X. (Eds.), Toxic language in East Asia. Routledge. [Invited chapter]
• Cho, H., & Park, M. Y. (in press/2026). Heritage language education and social change: Prioritizing identity and agency for minoritized individuals and communities. In V. Tavares (Ed.), The Routledge handbook of language education and social change. Routledge. [Invited chapter]
• Park, M. Y., & May, S. (in press/2026). Experiences of linguistic discrmination in Korea. In Fraschini, N., & Park, M. Y. (Eds.), Language and identity in Korean and diasporic contexts. Multilingual Matters. 

I am an Associate Professor of Philosophy with a mixed background in philosophy and biology. My work addresses a range of philosophical questions about scientific inquiry and its conceptual foundations. A lot of my recent work focuses on topics at the local interface of philosophy and science in Aotearoa, and on philosophical issues in microbiology, astrobiology and other areas which challenge our thinking about life and its simplest forms.

There are a few details about my research and teaching here. You can find more on my website: www.emilycparke.com.

Matheson Russell has expertise in social and political philosophy. Matheson's current research is in democratic theory, with a focus on deliberative democracy and democratic innovations. He has a background in 20th century French and German philosophy, especially Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and Jürgen Habermas.


Current Responsibilities:
- Assistant Dean Transdisciplinary (Faculty of Arts).
- Member of the Advisory Group (https://www.criticaltheory.auckland.ac.nz/people/) for the Critical Theory Network (https://www.criticaltheory.auckland.ac.nz/).


Follow Matheson on:
- Bluesky @mathesonrussell.bsky.social 
- Academia: https://auckland.academia.edu/MathesonRussell
- PhilPapers: https://philpeople.org/profiles/matheson-russell/

• Associate Professor in Korean and Asian Studies
  
  Distinctions/Honours:
• Academy of Korean Studies' CUPKS: Core University in Korean Studies) Grant (2017-2022)
• Strategic Research Institute in Korean Studies Grant (2022-2031) 
  
  Qualifications:
  BA (Kookmin), MA (Hangkuk Univ of Foreign Studies), PhD (Univ of Hawai'i at Manoa)
  
  Areas of Expertise:
• Diasporic identities in the context of the Korean diaspora in China and the former Soviet Union
• South Korean diasporic engagement policy
• Newer generations of Korean New Zealander youth in the context of acculturation, re-ethnicisation, and connections with ethnic homeland; 
• Korean nationalism, nation-building, and changes in nationalist ideology