Study In New Zealand: Historian Dr Toby Boraman Awarded 2025 JD Stout Fellowship
JD Stout Fellowship also known as John David Stout Fellowship is open to researchers of various studies related to culture, history, or society. Stout Trust funds this fellowship and offers an opportunity for a scholar to work full-time on a research project within an academic environment. The fellowship is for a one-year duration.
Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington has appointed Historian Dr Toby Boraman as the 2025 JD Stout Fellow.
Dr Boraman commented, “It was a time of profound strike activity, yet it has remained largely unexplored in historical scholarship. This project will explore the extent to which the period under study was a key transitional phase that has profoundly shaped the present. Much like today, it also demonstrates how political polarisation, and right-populism, can develop rapidly in response to major crises and conflict.”
“This research project will close a significant gap in our knowledge of the period in question. I am very much looking forward to hosting Toby at the centre,” says Professor Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich, Director of the Stout Research Centre.
Dr Boraman As 2025 JD Stout Fellow: More Details
He will take up the JD Stout Fellowship on March 1, 2025. Under this fellowship, he will continue his in-depth research for his upcoming book - Knocking Off: A History of Strikes in Aotearoa New Zealand from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s.
He is a specialist in the social movements and labour history of Aotearoa New Zealand. He has published various chapters and articles on the social and political turbulence of the 1970s and 1980s. Dr Boraman served as a politics lecturer at Massey University and worked as a historian at the Waitangi Tribunal. He has also completed a fellowship at the re:work International Research Centre where he was studying the global history of work at Humboldt University in Germany.
His research will offer a multi-dimensional and comprehensive history of workplace conflict. It will combine critical analysis of reactions, causes, contested legacies of the disputes and lasting impacts. It aims to amplify voices that have been long excluded including women workers, migrant Pasifika workers, Māori workers, and rank-and-file unionists, and to uncover the hidden history of strikes.
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