Annabel Cooper is Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Gender and Social Work at the University of Otago. Her edition of Mary Lee s" The Not So Poor "and her contributions to" Sites of Gender: Women, men and modernity in southern Dunedin "explored gender, place and poverty in nineteenth-century New Zealand. Lachy Paterson is a Senior Lecturer at Te Tumu: School of Maori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies, and a member of the Centre for Research on Colonial Culture at the University of Otago. To date he has published the only monograph on Maori-language newspapers, "Colonial Discourses: Niupepa Maori 1855 1863." Angela Wanhalla teaches in the Department of History and Art History at the University of Otago. Her most recent book is "Matters of the Heart: A history of interracial marriage in New Zealand," which won the Ernest Scott Prize for best book in Australian and New Zealand history in 2014."