Geoffrey Rice

Geoffrey Wayne Rice
Born 1946 (1946) (age 72)
Taumarunui, New Zealand
Residence Christchurch, New Zealand
Nationality New Zealand
Known for Study of Christchurch history and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
Title Emeritus Professor
Academic background
Alma mater University of Canterbury
Academic work
Discipline History
Sub-discipline Biography and Urban History
Institutions University of Canterbury

Geoffrey Wayne Rice (born 1946) is an Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. He joined the staff in 1973, and served as Head of the School of History from 2006 to 2011, before retiring in 2012.

Rice graduated MA in 1970 and was subsequently the first person to be awarded a History PhD by the University of Canterbury in 1974.[1] He served as the foundation Secretary of the New Zealand Historical Association from 1978 to 1981, and was secretary of the Canterbury Historical Association from 1982 to 2007.[1] He has been secretary of the Canterbury History Foundation since 2012. Rice has also been a member of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, London. He was general editor for the 2nd edition of the Oxford History of New Zealand.[2] Since 1986 he has organised and judged the J. M. Sherrard Award in New Zealand Local and Regional History.[3]

Rice is best known for his detailed studies of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic and its effect on New Zealand[4] and Japan,[5] as well as his studies of the local history of Christchurch. His book Black November (1988; second edition 2005) was the first country-level study of the 1918 influenza pandemic based on individual death records. This book assisted the New Zealand Ministry of Health in preparing its current Influenza Pandemic Plan.[6] Data from his research has been used in several recent epidemiological studies.[7][8] A condensed and updated version of Black November was published in 2017 as Black Flu 1918: the story of New Zealand’s worst public health disaster.[9]

Rice is also known for his books on Christchurch's history and that of its neighboring port, Lyttelton. Rice has also written books and articles on the Fourth Earl of Rochford[10][11] and Heaton Rhodes, as well as some of the Christchurch heritage lost during the 2011 Christchurch earthquake and its aftershocks.[1][12] His precinct history of Victoria Square, a public space in Christchurch, was published in 2014.[13]

Books

  • All Fall Down: Christchurch's Lost Chimneys, (Canterbury University Press, 2011), ISBN 978-1-927145-10-4
  • Ambulances and First Aid: St John in Christchurch 1885–1987, (The Order of St John Christchurch, 1994) ISBN 0-473-02517-5
  • Black November: The 1918 influenza pandemic in New Zealand, (with assistance from Linda Bryder), (Canterbury University Press, 2005, 2nd edition), ISBN 1-877257-35-4
  • Christchurch Changing: An illustrated history, (Canterbury University Press, 1st Ed. 1999, 2nd Ed. 2008) ISBN 978-0-908812-53-0
  • Christchurch Crimes 1850 - 75: Scandal and skullduggery in port and town, (Canterbury University Press, 2012) ISBN 978-1-927145-39-5
  • Christchurch Crimes and Scandals 1876 - 99, (Canterbury University Press, 2013) ISBN 978-1-927145-51-7
  • Christchurch in the Nineties: A Chronology, (Canterbury University Press, 2002) ISBN 0-473-08238-1
  • Heaton Rhodes of Otahuna, (Canterbury University Press, 2nd Ed. 2008) ISBN 978-1-877257-65-0
  • The Life of the Fourth Earl of Rochford: Eighteenth-century Anglo-Dutch Courtier, Diplomat and Statesman, (Edwin Mellen Press, 2010) ISBN 978-0-7734-1300-9
  • Lyttelton: Port and Town: an illustrated history, (Canterbury University Press, 2004) ISBN 1-877257-24-9
  • Rhodes on Cashmere: a history of the Rhodes Memorial Convalescent Home, (Hawthorne Press, 2005) ISBN 0-473-10261-7
  • Victoria Square: Cradle of Christchurch, (Canterbury University Press, 2014) ISBN 978-1-927145-58-6
  • Cricketing Colonists: The Brittan Brother in Early Canterbury, (with assistance from Frances Ryman), (Canterbury University Press, 2015) ISBN 978-1-927145-68-5

References

  1. 1 2 3 School of Humanities Staff Profile - Geoffrey Rice - University of Canterbury
  2. ↑ Rice, G., (1993). The Oxford History of New Zealand. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-558257-4
  3. ↑ "The J. M. Sherrard Awards in New Zealand Regional and Local History" (PDF). University of Canterbury. Canterbury Historical Association. Archived (PDF) from the original on April 25, 2018. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
  4. ↑ Rice, G., (2005). Black November: The 1918 influenza pandemic in New Zealand, Canterbury University Press. ISBN 1-877257-35-4
  5. ↑ Rice, G. W., Palmer, E. (1993) Pandemic Influenza in Japan, 1918–19: Mortality, Patterns and Official Responses, Journal of Japanese Studies, v. 19, n. 2, pp 389–420
  6. ↑ Ministry of Health (2017). New Zealand Influenza Pandemic Plan: a framework for action (2nd ed.). Wellington. ISBN 978-1-98-850285-4. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
  7. ↑ Nishiura, H.; Wilson, N. (2009). "Transmission dynamics of the 1918 influenza pandemic in New Zealand: analyses of national and city data" (PDF). NZ Medical Journal. 122 (1296): 81–85. ISSN 1175-8716. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
  8. ↑ Wilson, Nick; Oliver, Jane; Rice, Geoff; Summer, Jennifer A.; Baker, Michael G.; Waller, Michael; Shanks, G. Dennis (September 15, 2014). "Age-Specific Mortality During the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic and Possible Relationship to the 1889–92 Influenza Pandemic". Journal of Infectious Diseases. 210 (6): 993–995. doi:10.1093/infdis/jiu191. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
  9. ↑ Rice, G. W. (2017). Black Flu 1918: the story of New Zealand’s worst public health disaster. ISBN 978-1-927145-95-1. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
  10. ↑ Rice, Geoffrey W. (September 23, 2004). "Nassau van Zuylestein, William Henry van, fourth earl of Rochford (1717–1781), diplomatist and politician". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30312. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
  11. ↑ Rice, Geoffrey W. (2010). Life of the Fourth Earl of Rochford (1717-1781): Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Dutch Courtier, Diplomat and Statesman. Lewiston, New York. ISBN 0-7734-1300-6. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
  12. ↑ Rice, G., (2011). All Fall Down. Canterbury University Press. ISBN 978-1-927145-10-4
  13. ↑ Crean, Mike (29 November 2014). "Victoria Square once a Wild West scene". The Press. p. C10. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
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