Lucy Mackintosh (historian)

Lucy Mackintosh
AwardsErnest Scott Prize (2022)
Ian Wards Prize (2022)
Keith Sinclair Scholarship
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Otago (BA)
University of Auckland (MA) (PhD)
Thesis'Shifting Grounds: History, Memory and Materiality in Auckland Landscapes c.1350–2018' (2019)
Doctoral advisorCaroline Daley
Anne Salmond
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Auckland
Main interestscultural history, Māori history, environmental history
Notable worksShifting Grounds: Deep Histories of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (2021)
Websitehttps://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/lmac027/about

Lucy Mackintosh is a New Zealand historian, curator and author who is a senior research fellow of Auckland War Memorial Museum in Auckland, New Zealand. She is an honorary historian in the Faculty of Arts at the Waipapa Taumata Rau/University of Auckland and a researcher for the Ministry for Culture and Heritage working on the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Mackintosh is best known for her book, Shifting Grounds: Deep Histories of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, which won the prestigious Ernest Scott Prize in 2022 and the Ian Wards Prize of the Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga/Archives New Zealand.[1][2][3][4][5]

  1. ^ Stock, Rob (13 February 2022). "'Unknown histories': How a museum curator hopes to highlight Auckland's past". Stuff. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  2. ^ Rākete, Emmy (9 May 2022). "Ockham week: The book of Auckland". Newsroom. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  3. ^ "The Shifting Grounds of Tamaki Makaurau". Radio New Zealand. 16 November 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  4. ^ Wilson, Simon (20 November 2021). "If you need a monument, look around you': Rethinking Auckland history". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  5. ^ Rawhiti-Connell, Anna (31 January 2022). "Learning to look Tāmaki Makaurau in the face: a review of Shifting Grounds". The Spinoff. Retrieved 31 January 2024.