About the Author

Rebecca Lenihan completed her undergraduate degree and her PhD at Victoria University of Wellington. Her doctoral thesis, creating a demographic profile of New Zealand's Scots migrants, was part of a larger research project investigating the Scots in New Zealand funded by the Royal Society Marsden Fund of New Zealand. Between 2011 and 2013 Rebecca worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Guelph, Canada. She is the author of several articles and book chapters, and co-author of Unpacking the Kists (McGill Queen's University Press/Otago University Press, 2013).