Dorothy Pauline Page is a retired New Zealand historian and academic. She specialised in women's history, biography and public history. [1]
Page was appointed as a lecturer in history at the University of Otago in 1969 and was later promoted to associate professor. [2] [3] Page completed a PhD at the university in 1984, with a thesis on disability in nationality of British women (a term referring to the change of nationality of a British woman when she married a foreigner). [4] In 1986 Page and her colleague Barbara Brookes introduced the first university-level women's history paper in New Zealand. [5] She retired from the university in 2000. [1] Page remained active in local history events; she was the president of the Otago Settlers' Association in 2007 and 2008. [6]
In 1993, Page was awarded the New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal. [7]