Lucy Mackintosh (historian)

Lucy Mackintosh
AwardsErnest Scott Prize (2022)
Ian Wards Prize (2022)
Keith Sinclair Scholarship
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Otago (BA)
University of Auckland (MA) (PhD)
Thesis'Shifting Grounds: History, Memory and Materiality in Auckland Landscapes c.1350–2018' (2019)
Doctoral advisorCaroline Daley
Anne Salmond
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Auckland
Main interestscultural history, Māori history, environmental history
Notable worksShifting Grounds: Deep Histories of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (2021)
Websitehttps://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/lmac027/about

Lucy Mackintosh is a New Zealand historian, curator and author who is a senior research fellow of Auckland War Memorial Museum in Auckland, New Zealand. She is an honorary historian in the Faculty of Arts at the Waipapa Taumata Rau/University of Auckland and a researcher for the Ministry for Culture and Heritage working on the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Mackintosh is best known for her book, Shifting Grounds: Deep Histories of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, which won the prestigious Ernest Scott Prize in 2022 and the Ian Wards Prize of the Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga/Archives New Zealand.