Collectively the HistoryWorks Directors offer more than 60 years’ professional experience in the Treaty of Waitangi claims process.
Here are short profiles for the Directors:
Please get in touch if you’d like a full CV or more background information about our work.
Dr Vincent O’Malley FRHistS FRSNZ (Director)
Vincent is a Pākehā New Zealander of Irish, Scottish and English descent. He has a BA (Hons) in History (1st Class) from the University of Canterbury and completed his PhD thesis at Victoria University of Wellington in 2004. Vincent has published widely in the area of Crown and Māori historical relationships, including his 1998 book, Agents of Autonomy: Māori Committees in the Nineteenth Century (Huia Publishers), and (with David Armstrong) The Beating Heart: A Political and Socio-Economic History of Te Arawa (Huia Publishers, 2008), The Treaty of Waitangi Companion: Māori and Pākehā from Tasman to Today (Auckland University Press, 2010, co-edited with Bruce Stirling and Wally Penetito), The Meeting Place: Māori and Pākehā Encounters, 1642-1840 (Auckland University Press, 2012), a finalist in the NZ Post Book Awards for 2013, Beyond the Imperial Frontier: The Contest for Colonial New Zealand (Bridget Williams Books, 2014) Haerenga: Early Māori Journeys Across the Globe (Bridget Williams Books, 2015), The Great War for New Zealand: Waikato, 1800-2000 (Bridget Williams Books, 2016), The New Zealand Wars/Ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa (Bridget Williams Books, 2019), and Voices from the New Zealand Wars/He Reo Nō Ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa (Bridget Williams Books, 2021). He has also contributed to a wide range of local and international scholarly journals and other publications and is joint principal investigator of a Marsden Fund (Royal Society of New Zealand) project on remembering and forgetting difficult histories in New Zealand, focusing specifically on the New Zealand Wars.
Vincent was the 2014 J D Stout Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington, where he worked on a history of the Waikato War. In 2022, Voices from the New Zealand Wars won the general non-fiction category at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. In the same year he was named as the winner of the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in Non-Fiction and a semi-finalist for the Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year for 2023. He was awarded the Humanities Aronui Medal at the 2023 Research Honours Aotearoa awards by the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi for research or innovative work of outstanding merit in the Humanities. He has also received multiple research grants and awards and in 2017 was recipient of the Mary Boyd prize from the New Zealand Historical Association for the best article on any aspect of New Zealand history published over the previous two years. He has served as editor of H-ANZAU (part of H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences Online) since 2016.
He has worked as a professional historian focused mainly on Treaty of Waitangi claims research since 1993 and in that time has prepared and presented many research reports on behalf of iwi around the country.
See Vincent’s publications list
Bruce Stirling (Director)
Bruce is a Pākehā New Zealander of Scottish descent who grew up in Rarotonga and Wellington. He has a degree in history from Victoria University. Bruce has been involved with Treaty issues since 1989, initially as a Crown Law Office historian. In 1993 Bruce moved to the Crown Forestry Rental Trust, becoming the Trust’s Research Manager in mid-1999. Bruce has worked with many Māori claimant groups throughout the country assisting them with a wide range of research issues whilst also directing the Trust’s research effort. During this time he has also written and presented to the Waitangi Tribunal numerous research reports.Bruce was co-editor (with Vincent O’Malley and Wally Penetito) of The Treaty of Waitangi Companion: Māori and Pākehā from Tasman to Today (Auckland University Press, 2010).
Further Information
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