Monographs
Kalimpong Kids: The New Zealand Story, in Pictures (Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2020).
Race, Tea and Colonial Resettlement: Imperial Families, Interrupted (London, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017).
Winner of the Ian Wards Prize (Archives and Records Assn NZ) 2018, and the Erik Olssen Prize (Best first book, NZHA) 2019.
Family Land: Inheritance, Culture and the Family Farm (Auckland: Auckland University Press, manuscript in progress)
Edited volumes
Brookes, B., McCabe, J. and Wanhalla, A. (eds) Past Caring? Women, Work and Emotion (Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2019).
Ballantyne, T., and McCabe, J. (eds) Global Dunedin (Dunedin: Otago University Press, in progress)
Journal Articles
‘No Ordinary Plain: Seeing and Unseeing the Taieri with McCahon’, Journal of New Zealand Studies, NS31 (2020), 33-50.
‘Remaking Anglo-Indian Men: Agricultural Labour as Remedy in the British Empire, 1908-1938’, Gender and History 26:3 (2014), 438-458.
‘Working the Permit System: Anglo-Indian Immigration to New Zealand, 1920-1940’, New Zealand Journal of History 48:2 (2014), 27-49.
‘An Unlikely Pair: Disturbance and Intimacy in an Interracial “Empire Family”’, Journal of New Zealand Studies 14 (2013), 122-137.
Book Chapters
‘Out of the Shadows: Family Silence and the National Imaginary’, in Allbrook, M. and Scott-Brown S. (eds), Family History, History and the Historian (New York: Routledge, forthcoming 2021)
‘Freedom and the Freehold: Intergenerational land ownership by Chinese and Dalmatian farming families’, in Kate Bagnall and Peter Prince (eds), Subjects and Aliens: Histories of Nationality in Australia and New Zealand before 1948 (in review process)
‘In the Darkness of Night: Traversing Worlds Through the Concept of Ayah Care’, in Brookes, B., McCabe, J. and Wanhalla, A. (eds), Past Caring? Women, Work and Emotion (Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2019)
‘Transforming Family Narratives: The Kalimpong Community in New Zealand’, in Pickles et. al (eds), History Making a Difference: New Approaches from Aotearoa (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017)
‘From Polo to Poultry: A Planter’s Legacy’, in Annabel Cooper, Lachy Paterson and Angela Wanhalla (eds), He Taonga, He Kōrero: The Lives of Colonial Objects (Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2015)
‘Settling in, From Within: Anglo-Indian Lady-Helps in 1920s New Zealand’, in Victoria Haskins and Claire Lowrie (eds) Colonisation and Domestic Service: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (New York: Routledge, 2015)
‘An Ideal Life: Anglo-Indians in the NZEF’, in Katie Pickles, David Monger and Sarah Murray (eds) Endurance and the First World War: Experiences and Legacies in New Zealand and Australia (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014)
Co-authored book chapters
Brookes, B., McCabe, J. and Wanhalla, A. ‘Introduction’, in Past Caring? Women, Work and Emotion (Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2019)
Brookes, B., Cooper, K., Devere, H., McCabe, J., Polaschek, B., Tennant, M., & Wanhalla, A. ‘Stitching the generations together: Clothing care’. In Past Caring? Women, Work and Emotion (Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2019)
Book Reviews
West Island: Five Twentieth-Century New Zealanders in Australia. New Zealand Journal of History, (2020), 142-143
The Taste of Empire: How Britain’s quest for food shaped the modern world. American Historical Review, 124:2 (2019), 627-628
Settler Society in the Australian Colonies: Self-government and Imperial Culture. Women's History Review, 27:3 (2018), 503-505
Colonial Relations: The Douglas-Connolly family and the nineteenth century imperial world. Victorian Studies, 59:3 (2017), 559-561
Acknowledge No Frontier: The creation and demise of New Zealand’s provinces. Landfall, April 2017