Faculty oF humanities and social sciences 2013 - Victoria University ...

Richard Hill
Professor
“The history of the policing of empire is inextricably
interwoven with that of the dispossession of
indigenous peoples.”
An historian of policing and social control in colonial New
Zealand and other colonies, including colonies of empires
other than the British, Richard also works on the history of the
interaction between states (past and present) and indigenous
peoples. As a former negotiator in Treaty negotiations processes,
and a current member of the Waitangi Tribunal, he has long
been involved in applying historical scholarship to Treaty-based
reconciliation. He has published four books on policing/social
control in 19th and early 20th-century New Zealand, and two
books on Crown–Māori relations from 1900–2000.
Richard supervises postgraduate students whose studies cover
a diverse range of subjects, but he specialises in supervising
work focused on coercion, state activity and indigeneity. He is
currently writing a book on comparative policing in colonies.
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Therese Crocker
BA(Hons) Massey
“Historians have tended to focus on the hearing
of Treaty of Waitangi claims. We now need to
shift our gaze to the process and outcomes of
Treaty negotiations.”
Therese has long had an interest in New Zealand history, sparked
by her upbringing in Patea in South Taranaki. After graduating
from Massey University in 1993 with a BA(Hons), focusing on
New Zealand history, she started work as a historian at the
Office of Treaty Settlements. Over the past 14 years Therese has
continued to work as an independent research historian. Much
of this work has been in the field of Treaty settlements.
Her doctoral research will focus on the development of the
Treaty of Waitangi claims settlement process, from 1988 to
1998. That period encompasses the establishment of a formal
negotiations process between claimants and the Crown, the
launch of the ‘fiscal envelope’ policies and the settlement of
several major claims including the pioneering Waikato-Tainui
and Ngai Tahu settlements. This work will investigate the
motivation behind the establishment of the claims settlement
process and its evolution in that initial decade.