Twenty-two new Ngā Ahurei a Te Apārangi Fellows and Ngā Ahurei Honore a Te Apārangi Honorary Fellows have been elected to the Academy of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.
Congratulations to the following BWB authors and contributors, who are among this cohort:
Vincent O'Malley has been elected for ‘helping transform how New Zealanders think about and relate to the history of their own country’. Vincent’s latest book The Invasion of Waikato / Te Riri ki Tainui publishes in August.
Joanna Kidman has been elected for her ‘contributions to sociology, focusing on the role of indigeneity in economic, political, and cultural development’. Joanna’s co-authored work Fragments from a Contested Past has been a recent bestseller in the BWB Texts series.
Nicola Gaston has been elected for her ‘important insights into the behaviour of low-temperature liquid metals’. Nicola’s Why Science is Sexist published in the Texts series in 2015.
Carwyn Jones, contributor to a forthcoming volume on Te Tiriti o Waitangi, has been elected for his ‘award-winning Indigenous legal and constitutional research’.
Anthony Hōete, contributor to a forthcoming Text on urbanism in Aotearoa, has been elected for his ‘advancement of New Zealand and Māori architecture worldwide’.
Fellowship recognises researchers, scholars, and innovators throughout Aotearoa New Zealand who have achieved excellence in their various disciplines across science, technology, and the humanities.
Read more here: www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/latest-cohort-of-nga-ahurei-a-te-aparangi-fellows-announced