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16 September 2025

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Kaiāwhina | Contributors

Dr. Genevieve de Pont

Paewai Rangahau | Research Fellow; BA, BA(Hons) (First Class Hons), MA (First Class Hons), PhD (University of Auckland)

Passionate about historical education, educational equity and social justice, Genevieve spent 11 years teaching History at the University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau, with additional teaching stints at Massey University | Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa and the University of Waikato | Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato.

Alongside teaching, she has worked on a variety of policy projects within Academic Services and the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Auckland; most significantly, researching and writing the discussion papers that led to increased scholarship stipends for graduate students in 2016, after up to a decade of stagnation. She also has a loose but long-standing association with the New Zealand Fashion Museum, contributing to various exhibitions as editor, speaker, and writer between 2012 and 2019.

Genevieve has sat on the Awards Committee of the Kate Edger Educational Charitable Trust since 2017, and continues to serve on numerous panels which select the recipients of tertiary-level awards every year. Most recently, Genevieve has worked with the National Library of New Zealand and Auckland Council Libraries, developing resources to be used by kaiako and ākonga when studying the Aotearoa New Zealand Histories Curriculum, which was introduced into kura at the beginning of 2023.