Rate My Professor Jacqueline Leckie

Leckie has authored several influential books, including Old Black Cloud: A Cultural History of Mental Depression in Aotearoa (2024, Massey University Press), Invisible: New Zealand’s History of Excluding Kiwi-Indians (2021, Massey University Press), Colonizing Madness: Asylum and Community in Fiji (2020, University of Hawaii Press), Indian Settlers: The Story of a New Zealand South Asian Community (2007, Otago University Press), To Labour with the State: The Fiji Public Service Association (1997, Otago University Press), and A University for the Pacific: 50 Years of USP (2018, University of the South Pacific). She has contributed key chapters to edited volumes such as ‘Pacific Bodies and Personal Space Redefined, 1850-1950’ in The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean (2022, Cambridge University Press), ‘White Man’s Kava’ in Alcohol, Psychiatry and Society (2022, Manchester University Press), and ‘Inaugural Brij Lal Memorial Lecture: Belonging, and Banishment from and in the Sea of Islands’ in The Journal of Pacific History (2024). As co-editor of The Journal of Pacific History, she has advanced scholarship in Pacific studies. Her honors include life membership of the Pacific History Association, the NZSA Peter and Dianne Beatson Fellowship (2024), Friends of the Turnbull Library award (2023), J.D. Stout Research Fellowship (2018), and honorary membership of the New Zealand Indian Central Association. Leckie’s work has significantly illuminated marginalized narratives in colonial and contemporary Pacific contexts.