Vincent O'Malley

Vincent O'Malley FRSNZ FRHistS
O'Malley in 2023
Known for	Historian of the New Zealand Wars
Spouse	Joanna Kidman
Academic background
Thesis	Rūnanga and Komiti: Māori Institutions of Self-Government in the Nineteenth Century, New Zealand Studies PhD thesis, Victoria University of Wellington, 2004
Academic work
Notable works	Fragments from a Contested Past: Remembrance, Denial and New Zealand History: co-authored (2022)[1] Voices from the New Zealand Wars/He Reo Nō Ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa (2021)[2] The New Zealand Wars: Ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa (2019)[3] The Great War for New Zealand: Waikato 1800-2000 (2016)[4]
Notable ideas	The New Zealand Wars were defining conflicts in the nation's history. What a society chooses to remember or forget speaks to its priorities.
Website	https://www.meetingplace.nz/

Vincent Michael O’Malley FRSNZ FRHistS (born 1967) is a New Zealand historian whose work focuses on the history of how relationships between Māori, European settlers (Pākehā) and colonial governments shapes the development of New Zealand as a nation. In his publications, and as a presenter and media commentator, O'Malley takes public positions on the teaching of history in New Zealand schools, the importance of understanding the impact of the New Zealand Wars, interractions between Māori agency and Crown responses during the colonisation of the country and the role of the Waitangi Tribunal. O'Malley has received multiple research grants, won several literary awards and is involved in a wide range of professional associations. He is Research Director at HistoryWorks, a company he co-founded in 2004.