"Barbara Brookes is a professor of history at the University of Otago. She has published extensively on gender relations in New Zealand, as well as the history of health and disease in New Zealand and Britain. Her most recent book is A History of New Zealand Women (Bridget Williams Books, 2016), which won the Illustrated Non-Fiction category of the 2017 Ockham NZ Book Awards."
Jane McCabe is a Melbourne-based historian. In 2007 she visited Kalimpong seeking information about her grandmother. Ten years and one PhD later, she published Race, Tea and Colonial Resettlement: Imperial families, interrupted (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017). The book won the ARANZ Ian Wards Prize, and the NZHA Erik Olssen Prize. From 2014 to 2019, Jane was a lecturer in history at the University of Otago. She is currently writing the monograph from her Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden-funded project Splitting up the farm? A cross-cultural history of land and inheritance in Aotearoa.
Angela Wanhalla teaches in the Department of History and Art History, University of Otago, where she is a historian of race, gender and colonialism. Her most recent books are He Reo Wāhine: Māori womens voices from the nineteenth century (AUP, 2017), co-written with Lachy Paterson, and Mothers Darlings of the South Pacific: The children of indigenous women and US servicemen, World War II (University of Hawaii Press/OUP, 2016), co-edited with Judith A. Bennett."