Angela Wanhalla (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Māmoe) is a historian at Ōtākou Whakahiku Waka | The University of Otago. She has published extensively on marriage, family and community in Māori, Pacific and New Zealand history, including the award-winning Matters of the Heart: A history of interracial marriage in New Zealand (Auckland University Press, 2013) and Of Love and War (University of Nebraska Press, 2023), about the New Zealand and Pacific war brides who married American servicemen and settled in the United States. In 2024 she co-authored Te Hau Kāinga: The Māori Home Front during the Second World War, published by Auckland University Press. She is now working on a project about Māori servicemen’s access to medical care during and after the Second World War.