Dr Richard Hill

Dr Richard Hill is a historian who has published a multi-volumed study of policing and social control in nineteenth and early twentieth century New Zealand (1986–95). His book State Authority, Indigenous Autonomy (2004) examines the history of Crown–Māori relations between 1900 and 1950, and his text of a successor book covering the period until 2000 has been completed. He has also authored many articles and book chapters.

Dr Hill is Professor of New Zealand Studies at the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies at Victoria University of Wellington and the director of its Treaty of Waitangi Research Unit and is affiliated to Clare Hall and Churchill College, Cambridge University. He worked in the Treaty of Waitangi resolution processes during the pioneering negotiations in the late 1980s and the 1990s and holds the degree of doctor of letters from Canterbury University.

Dr Hill was appointed to the Tribunal in 2008.

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