Professional career
Macdonald is a professor of history at Victoria University of Wellington. Her areas of expertise include:19th century colonies and empires;New Zealand history;gender and women's history;and cultural history of bodies,modernity,sport and spectating. [1] Her work has been marked by innovative approaches to historical research methodology and story-telling. For example,in her 1990 book A Woman of Good Character,she analysed the data connected to the lives of over 4,000 women,in combination with more conventional historical archival work,to understand a large migrant group:single women who came to New Zealand in the 19th century. [3] She has also edited a number of collections of New Zealand women's historical primary material,greatly increasing the availability of such material. [4]
Macdonald wrote the Te Ara –Encyclopedia of New Zealand entry on "Women and Men" in New Zealand history. [5]
Macdonald was awarded a Marsden Fund grant in 2014 for a project entitled "Tinker,Tailor,Soldier,Settler:Garrison and Empire in the Nineteenth Century", [6] which has developed into the Soldiers of Empire project. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi in 2017. [3]
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