Dorothy Page (historian) explained
Dorothy Pauline Page is a retired New Zealand historian and academic. She specialised in women's history, biography and public history.
Page was appointed as a lecturer in history at the University of Otago in 1969 and was later promoted to associate professor.[1] 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).[2] In 1986 Page and her colleague Barbara Brookes introduced the first university-level women's history paper in New Zealand.[3] She retired from the university in 2000.[4] Page remained active in local history events; she was the president of the Otago Settlers' Association in 2007 and 2008.[5]
In 1993, Page was awarded the New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal.[6]
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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Notes and References
- News: Looking back at history. 9 April 2017. University of Otago 1869–2019. 18 September 2017. en-US.
- Page . Dorothy . 1984 . Doctoral thesis . 'A married woman, or a minor, lunatic or idiot' : the struggle of British women against disability in nationality, 1914-1933 . OUR Archive, University of Otago . 10523/345 .
- Web site: A woman's history. www.otago.ac.nz. en-nz. 18 September 2017.
- News: Anatomy of a Medical School. University of Otago. 18 September 2017. en-nz.
- Web site: Otago Settlers' News. December 2008. 18 September 2017.
- Web site: The New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal 1993 – register of recipients . 26 July 2018 . Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet . 18 September 2018.
- Web site: Dorothy Page BWB Bridget Williams Books. bwb.co.nz. en. 18 September 2017.
