Dorothy Page (historian)

Dorothy Pauline Page is a retired New Zealand historian and academic. She specialised in women's history, biography and public history.[1]

Page was appointed as a lecturer in history at the University of Otago in 1969 and was later promoted to associate professor.[2][3] Page completed a PhD at the university in 1984, with a thesis on disability in nationality of British women (a term referring to the change of nationality of a British woman when she married a foreigner).[4] In 1986 Page and her colleague Barbara Brookes introduced the first university-level women's history paper in New Zealand.[5] She retired from the university in 2000.[1] Page remained active in local history events; she was the president of the Otago Settlers' Association in 2007 and 2008.[6]

In 1993, Page was awarded the New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal.[7]

Publications

  • Anatomy of a Medical School: A History of Medicine at the University of Otago 1875–2000 (Otago University Press, 2008)
  • Communities of Women: Historical Perspectives, co-edited with Barbara Brookes (Otago University Press, 2002)
  • The National Council of Women: A Centennial History (Bridget Williams Books, 1996)

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References

  1. ^ a b "Anatomy of a Medical School". University of Otago. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
  2. ^ "Looking back at history". University of Otago 1869–2019. 9 April 2017. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
  3. ^ a b "Dorothy Page | BWB Bridget Williams Books". bwb.co.nz. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
  4. ^ Page, Dorothy (1984). 'A married woman, or a minor, lunatic or idiot' : the struggle of British women against disability in nationality, 1914-1933 (Doctoral thesis). OUR Archive, University of Otago. hdl:10523/345.
  5. ^ "A woman's history". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
  6. ^ "Otago Settlers' News". December 2008. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
  7. ^ "The New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal 1993 – register of recipients". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 26 July 2018. Retrieved 18 September 2018.