Massey University is a university based in New Zealand,with significant campuses in Palmerston North,Auckland and Wellington. Massey University has approximately 27,533 students,18,358 of whom study either partly or fully by distance. Research is undertaken on all three campuses and people from over 130 countries study at the university.
The New Zealand Wars took place from 1845 to 1872 between the New Zealand colonial government and allied Māori on one side,and Māori and Māori-allied settlers on the other. They were previously commonly referred to as the Land Wars or the Māori Wars,while Māori language names for the conflicts included Ngāpakanga o Aotearoa and Te riri Pākehā. Historian James Belich popularised the name "New Zealand Wars" in the 1980s,although according to Vincent O'Malley,the term was first used by historian James Cowan in the 1920s.
Iwi are the largest social units in New Zealand Māori society. In Māori iwi roughly means "people" or "nation",and is often translated as "tribe",or "a confederation of tribes". The word is both singular and plural in the Māori language,and is typically pluralised as such in English.
The University of Waikato,is a public research university in Hamilton,New Zealand established in 1964. An additional campus is located in Tauranga. The university performs research in the disciplines of education,social sciences,and management and is an innovator in environmental science,marine and freshwater ecology,engineering and computer science. It offers degrees in health,engineering,computer science,management,Māori and Indigenous Studies,the arts,psychology,social sciences and education.
David Vernon Williams is a professor,and former deputy dean of the University of Auckland's Faculty of Law. He comes from the Hawke's Bay region of New Zealand,and was educated at Wanganui Collegiate School.
William Hosking Oliver,commonly known as W. H. Oliver but also known as Bill Oliver,was an eminent New Zealand historian and a poet. From 1983,Oliver led the development of the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.
Elizabeth Jane Kelsey is a New Zealand academic and activist who has promoted critical examination of the relationship between social,political and economic issues and how these can impact on human rights and justice. Specifically,within the New Zealand context,she has advocated public policy positions on colonialism and te Tiriti Waitangi,globalisation and neoliberalism,and the role of universities as public institutions. She has published widely on these and other issues,and in 2020 won the Global category of the New Zealand Women of Influence Award. Kelsey was professor of law at the University of Auckland until her retirement in 2022.
Dame Claudia Josepha Orange is a New Zealand historian best known for her 1987 book The Treaty of Waitangi,which won 'Book of the Year' at the Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Award in 1988.
Dame Judith Mary Caroline Binney was a New Zealand historian,writer and Emerita Professor of History at the University of Auckland. Her work focussed on religion in New Zealand,especially the Māori Ringatūreligion founded by Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki and continued by Rua Kenana. She also wrote extensively on the history of Ngāi Tūhoe.
Dame Margaret Clara Bazley is a New Zealand public servant. She began her career as a psychiatric nurse and rose through the ranks to senior leadership positions at psychiatric hospitals and district health boards. In 1978 she became the Director of Nursing at the Department of Health,the chief nursing position in New Zealand and at that time the most senior position in the public service held by a woman,and in 1984 became the first female State Services Commissioner. She subsequently held top positions at the Department of Transport and the Department of Social Welfare.
Linda Tuhiwai Te Rina Smith,previously a professor of indigenous education at the University of Waikato in Hamilton,New Zealand,is now Distinguished Professor at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi. The daughter of Sidney Moko Mead,she affiliates to the Ngāti Awa and Ngāti Porou iwi.
Rawinia Ruth Higgins is a New Zealand academic whose research focuses on Māori language and culture.
Charlotte Jean Macdonald is a New Zealand historian. After studying as an undergraduate at Massey University,she earned her PhD from University of Auckland and is now a professor at Victoria University of Wellington.
Alan Dudley Ward was a New Zealand historian,particularly known for his research into customary land tenure by Māori in New Zealand.
Bridget Rosamund Williams is a New Zealand publisher and founder of two independent publishing companies:Port Nicholson Press and Bridget Williams Books.
Bridget Williams Books is a New Zealand book publisher,established in 1990 by Bridget Williams.
The New Zealand Journal of History is an academic journal covering the history of New Zealand. It has been published by the University of Auckland since 1967.
Aroha Gaylene Harris is a Māori academic. As of 2020,Harris is an associate professor at the University of Auckland,specialising in Māori histories of policy and community development. She is also a member of the Waitangi Tribunal.
Alice Te Punga Somerville is a poet,scholar and irredentist. Dr Te Punga Somerville is the author of Once were Pacific:Māori connections to Oceania which provides the first critical analysis of the disconnections and connections between 'Māori' and 'Pacific'. Her research work delves into texts by Māori,Pacific and Indigenous peoples that tell Indigenous stories in order to go beyond the constraints of the limited stories told about them. In 2023 she won New Zealand's top award for poetry,the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry,for her collection Always Italicise:How to Write While Colonised.
Vincent Michael O’Malley MRSNZ FRHistS is a New Zealand historian whose work focuses on the history of how relationships between Māori,European settlers (Pākehā) and colonial governments shapes the development of New Zealand as a nation. In his publications,and as a presenter and media commentator,O'Malley takes public positions on the teaching of history in New Zealand schools,the importance of understanding the impact of the New Zealand Wars,interractions between Māori agency and Crown responses during the colonisation of the country and the role of the Waitangi Tribunal. O'Malley has received multiple research grants,won several literary awards and is involved in a wide range of professional associations. He is Research Director at HistoryWorks,a company he co-founded in 2004.
