Date/Time
Date(s) - Thu 7 May
17:30 - 19:00
Inaugural Professorial Lecture – Professor Hugh Morrison
About Professor Hugh Morrison’s research
Hugh Morrison is a passionate historian in Te Kura Ākau Taitoka / University College of Education. Family roots are in North Otago and Waikato / Bay of Plenty, with Scottish and English migrant ancestors stretching back to 1849. He teaches in initial teacher education and education studies, shaped by a varied background in geography, history, theology, high school teaching, youth work and adult education.
Hugh’s historical research focuses on British world religion and childhoods, with a particular focus on New Zealand, Canada and the United Kingdom. He is committed to histories that cross boundaries, that draw on multiple insights from religion, empire, emotions, education and culture, and that give children and youth historical prominence. Recent projects include Scottish and New Zealand missionary children, children and religious education and a collaborative comparative history of religious childhoods.
Currently, Hugh is using Otago-based studies and family histories to investigate settler childhoods in the early colonial and the inter-war periods. Internationally he has held visiting fellowships at several British universities. He is also actively involved in the Society for the History of Children and Youth and, locally, the Religious History Association of Aotearoa New Zealand.
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