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'''Ben Schrader''' (born 1964) is a New Zealand historian specialising in urban history.
'''Ben Schrader''' (born 1964) is a New Zealand historian specialising in urban history.


Schrader was born in [[Christchurch]] in 1964, and grew up in [[Wellington]].<ref name="Natlib">{{cite web |title=Schrader, Ben, active 1970-2008 |url=https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22566683 |website=National Library of New Zealand |access-date=16 April 2024}}</ref><ref name="PHANZA">{{cite journal |title=New Life Memberships approved at PHANZA’s AGM |journal=Phanzine |date=December 2023 |volume=29 |issue=3 |pages=6-7 |url=http://phanza.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Phanzine-Dec-2023.pdf |access-date=16 April 2024}}</ref> He obtained a bachelor's degree in arts from [[Victoria University of Wellington]] followed by a master's degree in 1993. His master's thesis was titled ''Planning Happy Families: A History of the Naenae Idea''.<ref name="PHANZA"/> In 2001 he completed his doctorate at the [[University of Melbourne]]; his thesis was titled ''Rebuilding Melbourne: modernity and progress in the central business district, 1910–50''.<ref name="PHANZA"/>
Schrader was born in [[Christchurch]] in 1964, and grew up in [[Wellington]].<ref name="Natlib">{{cite web |title=Schrader, Ben, active 1970-2008 |url=https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22566683 |website=National Library of New Zealand |access-date=16 April 2024}}</ref><ref name="PHANZA">{{cite journal |title=New Life Memberships approved at PHANZA’s AGM |journal=Phanzine |date=December 2023 |volume=29 |issue=3 |pages=6-7 |url=http://phanza.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Phanzine-Dec-2023.pdf |access-date=16 April 2024}}</ref> He obtained a bachelor's degree in arts from [[Victoria University of Wellington]] followed by a master's degree in 1993. His master's thesis was titled ''Planning Happy Families: A History of the Naenae Idea''.<ref name="PHANZA"/> He has spoken publicly about the importance of [[Naenae]] to New Zealand's urban planning history.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Schouten |first1=Hank |title=Naenae has special place in NZ urbanism |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/65981161/naenae-has-special-place-in-nz-urbanism |access-date=16 April 2024 |work=Stuff |date=10 February 2015}}</ref> In 2001 he completed his doctorate at the [[University of Melbourne]]; his thesis was titled ''Rebuilding Melbourne: modernity and progress in the central business district, 1910–50''.<ref name="PHANZA"/>


He is a founding member of the Professional Historians' Association of New Zealand (PHANZA), served on its first committee, and in 2023 was made a life member of the organisation.<ref name="PHANZA"/>
He is a founding member of the Professional Historians' Association of New Zealand (PHANZA), served on its first committee, and in 2023 was made a life member of the organisation.<ref name="PHANZA"/> He was a contributor to the ''New Zealand Historical Atlas'' (1997, edited by [[Malcolm McKinnon]]).<ref>{{cite web |last1=Swarbrick |first1=Nancy |title=Page 3. Government publications, 1980s–2000s |url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/public-history/page-3 |website=Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand |access-date=16 April 2024 |date=22 October 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Swarbrick |first1=Nancy |title=Working on the historical atlas: Ben Schrader (2nd of 2)
|url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/44531/working-on-the-historical-atlas-ben-schrader |website=Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand |access-date=16 April 2024 |date=22 October 2014}}</ref>

In 2006 his book ''We Call It Home: a history of state housing in New Zealand'' (2005) was shortlisted for the history award at the [[Montana New Zealand Book Awards]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Montana finalists highlight bumper year for publishing |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/montana-finalists-highlight-bumper-year-for-publishing/IP2GYVNYB3XE6SUSHUKV3EU5OE/ |access-date=16 April 2024 |work=The New Zealand Herald |date=1 June 2006 |language=en-NZ}}</ref> In 2015 journalist [[Chris Trotter]] cited the work in a discussion about the politics of state housing.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Edwards |first1=Bryce |title=Political roundup: Anger over 'slum landlord' Government |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/political-roundup-anger-over-slum-landlord-government/HJEHT6ETR5TK3GQKWN3KXDIRQ4/ |access-date=16 April 2024 |work=The New Zealand Herald |date=16 June 2015 |language=en-NZ}}</ref>


In 2016 he was interviewed by [[Radio New Zealand]] about New Zealand's urban history.<ref name="RNZ 2016">{{cite news |title=Ben Schrader: New Zealand's urban history |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/201820088/ben-schrader-new-zealand's-urban-history |access-date=16 April 2024 |work=Radio New Zealand |date=15 October 2016 |language=en-nz}}</ref>
In 2016 he was interviewed by [[Radio New Zealand]] about New Zealand's urban history.<ref name="RNZ 2016">{{cite news |title=Ben Schrader: New Zealand's urban history |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/201820088/ben-schrader-new-zealand's-urban-history |access-date=16 April 2024 |work=Radio New Zealand |date=15 October 2016 |language=en-nz}}</ref>


In 2017 his work ''The Big Smoke: New Zealand Cities, 1840– 1920'' (2016) received the W.H. Oliver Prize, awarded by the New Zealand Historical Association. The award recognises the best book published on New Zealand history in the previous two years.<ref>{{cite web |title=NZHA Prizes |url=https://nzha.org.nz/conferences-past/nzha-prizes/ |website=The New Zealand Historical Association |access-date=16 April 2024 |language=en |date=30 January 2013}}</ref> The work also received the 2017 New Zealand Heritage Non-Fiction Book Award,<ref>{{cite web |title=NZSA Canterbury – NZ Heritage awards winners announced |url=https://authors.org.nz/nzsa-canterbury-nz-heritage-awards-winners-announced/ |website=New Zealand Society of Authors |access-date=16 April 2024 |date=19 October 2017}}</ref> and was shortlisted for the General Non-Fiction award at the 2017 [[Ockham New Zealand Book Awards]].<ref>{{cite web |title=2017 Awards Shortlist |url=https://www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-book-awards/2017-awards/shortlist/ |website=New Zealand Book Awards Trust |access-date=16 April 2024}}</ref>
In 2017 his work ''The Big Smoke: New Zealand Cities, 1840– 1920'' (2016) received the W.H. Oliver Prize, awarded by the New Zealand Historical Association. The award recognises the best book published on New Zealand history in the previous two years.<ref>{{cite web |title=NZHA Prizes |url=https://nzha.org.nz/conferences-past/nzha-prizes/ |website=The New Zealand Historical Association |access-date=16 April 2024 |language=en |date=30 January 2013}}</ref> The work also received the 2017 New Zealand Heritage Non-Fiction Book Award,<ref>{{cite web |title=NZSA Canterbury – NZ Heritage awards winners announced |url=https://authors.org.nz/nzsa-canterbury-nz-heritage-awards-winners-announced/ |website=New Zealand Society of Authors |access-date=16 April 2024 |date=19 October 2017}}</ref> and was shortlisted for the General Non-Fiction award at the 2017 [[Ockham New Zealand Book Awards]].<ref>{{cite web |title=2017 Awards Shortlist |url=https://www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-book-awards/2017-awards/shortlist/ |website=New Zealand Book Awards Trust |access-date=16 April 2024}}</ref>

A review of ''The Big Smoke'' in the ''Journal of New Zealand Studies'' said the work "makes a powerful case for the centrality of the urban in New Zealand’s evolving identity".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Pawson |first1=Eric |title=The Big Smoke. New Zealand Cities 1840-1920 |journal=The Journal of New Zealand Studies |date=2018 |issue=NS26 |doi=10.26686/jnzs.v0iNS26.4846 |url=https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/jnzs/article/view/4846 |access-date=16 April 2024 |language=en |issn=2324-3740}}</ref> [[Erik Olssen]] writing in the ''New Zealand Journal of History'' noted some "scholarly issues" with the text but said these should not detract from the "general reader's enjoyment"; he said the work "contained much fresh and original material, often enlivened by pertinent
biographical essays, [and] deftly introduced the broader socio-cultural context".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Olssen |first1=Eric |title=The Big Smoke: New Zealand Cities 1840–1920 |journal=New Zealand Journal of History |date=2017 |volume=51 |issue=1 |url=https://www.nzjh.auckland.ac.nz/docs/2017/NZJH_51_1_17.pdf |access-date=17 April 2024}}</ref>


In 2017 he received the [[CLNZ Writers' Award]], worth $25,000, towards work on his next research project.<ref name="CLNZ">{{cite news |title=Conservation of New Zealand heritage writing project leads to $25,000 Writers’ Award |url=https://thebigidea.nz/community-announcements/conservation-of-new-zealand-heritage-writing-project-leads-to-25-000-writers-award |access-date=16 April 2024 |work=The Big Idea |date=22 September 2017}}</ref>
In 2017 he received the [[CLNZ Writers' Award]], worth $25,000, towards work on his next research project.<ref name="CLNZ">{{cite news |title=Conservation of New Zealand heritage writing project leads to $25,000 Writers’ Award |url=https://thebigidea.nz/community-announcements/conservation-of-new-zealand-heritage-writing-project-leads-to-25-000-writers-award |access-date=16 April 2024 |work=The Big Idea |date=22 September 2017}}</ref>
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===Selected works===
===Selected works===
*''We call it home: a history of state housing in New Zealand'' (2005)<ref name="Natlib"/>
*''We Call It Home: a history of state housing in New Zealand'' (Reed Publishing, 2005)<ref name="Natlib"/>
*''The Big Smoke: New Zealand Cities, 1840– 1920'' (2016)<ref name="RNZ 2016"/>
*''The Big Smoke: New Zealand Cities, 1840– 1920'' (Bridget Williams Books, 2016)<ref name="RNZ 2016"/>


== References ==
== References ==

Revision as of 00:01, 17 April 2024

Ben Schrader (born 1964) is a New Zealand historian specialising in urban history.

Schrader was born in Christchurch in 1964, and grew up in Wellington.[1][2] He obtained a bachelor's degree in arts from Victoria University of Wellington followed by a master's degree in 1993. His master's thesis was titled Planning Happy Families: A History of the Naenae Idea.[2] He has spoken publicly about the importance of Naenae to New Zealand's urban planning history.[3] In 2001 he completed his doctorate at the University of Melbourne; his thesis was titled Rebuilding Melbourne: modernity and progress in the central business district, 1910–50.[2]

He is a founding member of the Professional Historians' Association of New Zealand (PHANZA), served on its first committee, and in 2023 was made a life member of the organisation.[2] He was a contributor to the New Zealand Historical Atlas (1997, edited by Malcolm McKinnon).[4][5]

In 2006 his book We Call It Home: a history of state housing in New Zealand (2005) was shortlisted for the history award at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards.[6] In 2015 journalist Chris Trotter cited the work in a discussion about the politics of state housing.[7]

In 2016 he was interviewed by Radio New Zealand about New Zealand's urban history.[8]

In 2017 his work The Big Smoke: New Zealand Cities, 1840– 1920 (2016) received the W.H. Oliver Prize, awarded by the New Zealand Historical Association. The award recognises the best book published on New Zealand history in the previous two years.[9] The work also received the 2017 New Zealand Heritage Non-Fiction Book Award,[10] and was shortlisted for the General Non-Fiction award at the 2017 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.[11]

A review of The Big Smoke in the Journal of New Zealand Studies said the work "makes a powerful case for the centrality of the urban in New Zealand’s evolving identity".[12] Erik Olssen writing in the New Zealand Journal of History noted some "scholarly issues" with the text but said these should not detract from the "general reader's enjoyment"; he said the work "contained much fresh and original material, often enlivened by pertinent biographical essays, [and] deftly introduced the broader socio-cultural context".[13]

In 2017 he received the CLNZ Writers' Award, worth $25,000, towards work on his next research project.[14]

He held the 2022 JD Stout Fellowship at Victoria University of Wellington, during which his research work focused on the history of urban conservation in New Zealand.[15]

Selected works

  • We Call It Home: a history of state housing in New Zealand (Reed Publishing, 2005)[1]
  • The Big Smoke: New Zealand Cities, 1840– 1920 (Bridget Williams Books, 2016)[8]

References

  1. ^ a b "Schrader, Ben, active 1970-2008". National Library of New Zealand. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d "New Life Memberships approved at PHANZA's AGM" (PDF). Phanzine. 29 (3): 6–7. December 2023. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  3. ^ Schouten, Hank (10 February 2015). "Naenae has special place in NZ urbanism". Stuff. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  4. ^ Swarbrick, Nancy (22 October 2014). "Page 3. Government publications, 1980s–2000s". Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  5. ^ Swarbrick, Nancy (22 October 2014). "Working on the historical atlas: Ben Schrader (2nd of 2)". Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  6. ^ "Montana finalists highlight bumper year for publishing". The New Zealand Herald. 1 June 2006. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  7. ^ Edwards, Bryce (16 June 2015). "Political roundup: Anger over 'slum landlord' Government". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  8. ^ a b "Ben Schrader: New Zealand's urban history". Radio New Zealand. 15 October 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  9. ^ "NZHA Prizes". The New Zealand Historical Association. 30 January 2013. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  10. ^ "NZSA Canterbury – NZ Heritage awards winners announced". New Zealand Society of Authors. 19 October 2017. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  11. ^ "2017 Awards Shortlist". New Zealand Book Awards Trust. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  12. ^ Pawson, Eric (2018). "The Big Smoke. New Zealand Cities 1840-1920". The Journal of New Zealand Studies (NS26). doi:10.26686/jnzs.v0iNS26.4846. ISSN 2324-3740. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  13. ^ Olssen, Eric (2017). "The Big Smoke: New Zealand Cities 1840–1920" (PDF). New Zealand Journal of History. 51 (1). Retrieved 17 April 2024.
  14. ^ "Conservation of New Zealand heritage writing project leads to $25,000 Writers' Award". The Big Idea. 22 September 2017. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  15. ^ "Historian Dr Ben Schrader announced as 2022 JD Stout Fellow". Victoria University of Wellington. 19 November 2021. Retrieved 16 April 2024.

External links

Category:1964 births Category:Living people Category:People from Christchurch Category:Victoria University of Wellington alumni Category:University of Melbourne alumni

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