New Zealand studies explained

New Zealand studies is the academic field of area studies of New Zealand. Māori studies is the academic field of cultural studies of the New Zealand Māori. The main New Zealand universities all have a School of Māori Studies.

On Waitangi Day in 2007, Birkbeck College London opened the first Centre for New Zealand Studies (CNZS) in the United Kingdom.^[1]

Subfields

• History of New Zealand
• Literature of New Zealand
• Politics of New Zealand
• Economy of New Zealand
• Culture of New Zealand
• Māori culture
• Māori language
• Māori politics
• Māori religion

Institutions

In New Zealand:

• Victoria University of Wellington, Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies

Overseas:

• Birkbeck, University of London, Centre for New Zealand Studies
• Peking University in Beijing (opened c2005, see Barry Gustafson)

Academic journals

• Journal of New Zealand Studies of the Stout Research Centre (annual)
• CNZS Bulletin of New Zealand Studies
• British Review of New Zealand Studies

See also

• Education in New Zealand
• List of universities in New Zealand

External links

• New Zealand Studies Association
• New Zealand and Australian Studies in North America
• New Zealand and Australian Studies, Georgetown University
• New Zealand and Australian Studies, University of Texas
• University of Auckland http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/departments/index.cfm?S=D_MAORI
• University of Waikato http://www.waikato.ac.nz/enrol/choices/#TIKA
• Massey University http://maori.massey.ac.nz/
• Victoria University of Wellington http://www.victoria.ac.nz/maori/
• University of Canterbury http://www.maori.canterbury.ac.nz/ Māori web resources
• Lincoln University http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/story3131.html
• University of Otago http://www.otago.ac.nz/subjects/maor.html

Notes and References

1. Robinson . Guy M. . 2009 . The Dramatic Saga of London's New Centre for New Zealand Studies . British Review of New Zealand Studies . 18 . 85–135 . EBSCOHost.