Rate My Professor Hugh Morrison

Morrison's research focuses on New Zealand and British world religious history, particularly the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Protestant missionary movement and its relationship to children, childhood, youth, literature, and education. He employs transnational and comparative approaches across settings including New Zealand, Canada, and Scotland to explore how religion, empire, nation, education, geography, and family shaped identities. Key publications include Protestant missionary children's lives, c.1870-1950: Empire, religion and emotion (Manchester University Press, 2024); Protestant children, missions and education in the British World (Brill, 2021); 'Children, young people, Protestant missions, and history: An interdisciplinary conversation' (Mission Studies, 2025); 'Unconscious being: Settler girls, high school and colonialism in interwar New Zealand' (History of Education, 2025); and 'Happy families?: Scottish Presbyterian missionary children's homes, 1900s-1950s' (Scottish Church History, 2023). He has received an Elected Visiting Fellowship at Magdalen College, University of Oxford (2017) and a Visiting Fellowship at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh (2012). Morrison co-chairs the Australasian Regional Network of the Society for the History of Children and Youth, serves on the overseas committee of the Children's History Society (UK), and has judged the Grace Abbott Book Prize. He has delivered invited presentations at the Centre for the History of Childhood, University of Oxford, and the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.