Encircled Lands: Te Urewera, 1820-1921

Judith Binney, DCNZM, FRSNZ, FNZAH, was born in Australia in 1940 and educated at Auckland University, where she is Professor Emeritus of History. She has served as a Guardian of Alexander Turnbull Library, and on the boards of Te Papa Tongarewa, New Zealand Historic Places Trust, and Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa.  Emeritus Professor Dame Judith Binney became a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1998 and a Fellow of the New Zealand Academy of the Humanities in 2007.

The Prime Minister’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Non-fiction was awarded to Judith Binney in 2006 in recognition of her contribution to the development of New Zealand’s intellectual life, particularly in oral history and Māori history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.  Emeritus Professor Binney has recently embarked on a major new project, working with Atholl Anderson, Aroha Harris, and a team of Māori researchers – Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History, due for publication by BWB in 2011.