Katie Pickles

• Professor of History, University of Canterbury

Katie is a former Royal Society Te Aparangi James Cook Research Fellow. She graduated as a senior scholar with a double major in History and Geography from the University of Canterbury in 1989. After working as the editor of Canta, she undertook postgraduate study at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where she completed a first class MA in 1991. In 1996 her PhD was granted by McGill University in Montreal. Katie returned to Canterbury to lecture in New Zealand women's/feminist history. Katie is the author of four monographs and she has edited six scholarly collections. She has published over 150 essays, journal articles, opinion editorials and book reviews on a variety of topics. Katie was the President of the New Zealand Historical Association from 2014-5. She is an associate editor for Kotuitui. She is currently completing a new biography of social activist Kate Sheppard.

• –present Professor of History at the University of Canterbury and current Te Aparangi Royal Society of New Zealand James Cook Research Fellow., University of Canterbury

• 1996 McGill University , PhD

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