Angela McCarthy

Angela McCarthy is Professor of Scottish and Irish History at the University of Otago where she teaches migration history, Scottish history, and Irish history. She is the author/editor of seven books on Irish and Scottish migration, English migration, and migration and mental health. She is currently writing a biography of James Taylor, the 'father of the Ceylon tea enterprise'. Her most recent publication was Far from 'Home': The English in New Zealand (Otago University Press, 2012), co-edited with Lyndon Fraser.