Rate My Professor Kirstie Ross

Kirstie Ross serves as Head Curator of Published and Special Collections at the Hocken Collections, University of Otago Library. She holds degrees in music and history from the University of Auckland, including a Bachelor of Arts in History, Political Studies, and English, and a Master of Arts with Honours in History completed in 1998. Following her graduate studies, Ross conducted research for the Waitangi Tribunal. Her scholarly work includes the book Going Bush: New Zealanders and Nature in the Twentieth Century, published by Auckland University Press in 2008, which examines Pākehā engagement with nature from the 1890s to the 1970s and originated from her Masters thesis research using Hocken Collections materials starting in 2004. Other key publications feature 'Materialising social history in museums' in Te Ara: Journal of Museums Aotearoa (2007), 'Biculturalism and Social History at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa' (2013), 'Te Papa's Gallipoli: The Scale of Our War' (2022), and contributions such as 'Making Sense of the War (New Zealand)' in the 1914-1918-online International Encyclopedia of the First World War. She has also co-authored Holding on to Home: New Zealand Stories and Objects of the First World War with Kate Hunter (2014).