Richard S. Hill

Richard S. Hill is Professor of New Zealand Studies at Victoria University of Wellington's Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies, where he is also Director of its Treaty of Waitangi Research Unit. He is an historian of state policies and institutions, especially those relating to policing, afficher plus social control and state-indigenous interaction. Professor Hill has written four books on the history of policing in New Zealand up to the First World War period, as well as the predecessor work to Maori and the State. He has had a long involvement in the settlement of Maori claims under the Treaty of Waitangi. Professor Hill holds a Doctorate of Letters from Canterbury University, and has a continuing association with Cambridge University, where he is a Life Member of Clare Hall. He is currently in Cambridge as a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College and a Visiting Scholar in the Faculty of History. afficher moins