25 Facts About Anne Salmond

Anne Salmond was New Zealander of the Year in 2013.

At the University of Auckland, Anne Salmond graduated with Bachelor of Arts in 1966 and Master of Arts in anthropology in 1968.

Anne Salmond later attended the University of Pennsylvania, where she gained a PhD in 1972.

Anne Salmond was inspired to research early Maori history during her time in the United States as a teenager.

In 2001, Anne Salmond became Distinguished Professor of Maori Studies and Anthropology at the University of Auckland.

From 2002 to 2007, Anne Salmond served on the boards of the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology, the Museum of New Zealand, and was chair of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.

Anne Salmond was Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Auckland from 1997 to 2006.

Anne Salmond is the project sponsor for the Starpath Partnership for Excellence, which aims to ensure that Maori, Pacific and low-income students achieve their potential through education.

Anne Salmond had a close relationship with Eruera Stirling and Amiria Stirling, noted elders of Te Whanau-a-Apanui and Ngati Porou.

Anne Salmond wrote a five-part series in 2021 exploring possible new "institutional forms of order" for New Zealand.

Anne Salmond made the case that acknowledging the interwoven "ancestral lines of descent" in whakapapa would allow a reimagining of relations between all people in the country, and a re-focus on the promise of the partnership between Maori and the Crown in the Treaty of Waitangi.

Anne Salmond acknowledged that the idea for the collection came from her husband, who had felt that the contemporary, personalised introductions to each piece would add context about "what was happening at the time".

Anne Salmond responded and disputed the doctrine of discovery was uncontested at the time and that prior to leaving, conflicting instructions were given to Cook.

Anne Salmond noted that in his journal, Cook admitted to an "error of judgement".

In December 2020 Anne Salmond expressed optimism that a worldview for New Zealand based on key concepts such as aroha and kaitiakitanga could build relationships, not just between people, but with the living world.

In 2020, when the New Zealand media outlet Stuff apologised for its inequitable treatment of Maori and tikanga Maori, Anne Salmond made the case that under the Treaty of Waitangi, this was "living up to the Queen's promise of equality and mutual respect for different tikanga, and weaving these together in ways that benefit all New Zealanders".

Anne Salmond was elected Deputy Chair of the Parks and Wilderness Trust in 1990, and in 2000, with her husband Jeremy, initiated the restoration of what would become the Waikereru Ecosanctuary near Gisborne.

In making the case for the New Zealand Government taking a trustee role in protecting waterways, Anne Salmond cited initiatives in Hawaii and the USA that recognised the public interest coulf be maintained when customary rights were respected and that there was "a uniquely Kiwi way" of doing this based on kaitiakitanga.

Anne Salmond called for "nature based solutions" to tackle climate change in New Zealand if the country's indigenous forests that supported important diversity of plants and animals and store high amounts of carbon were to be restored.

Anne Salmond noted how "pine plantations had been displacing other land uses, including food production through sheep and beef farming, while increasing the risks of fire, disease, wildling pines, erosion with clear fell harvesting, and flooding with forestry slash", and this was evident in the devastation caused to the environment and communities by forestry debris during Cyclone Gabrielle.

Anne Salmond received the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement for non-fiction in 2004.

Anne Salmond was named New Zealander of the Year for her work on cultural history.

Anne Salmond was elected an international member of the American Philosophical Society in 2015.

In 2017, Anne Salmond was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Aparangi's "150 women in 150 words", celebrating the contributions of women to knowledge in New Zealand.

Anne Salmond was the 2024 Honoured Writer at the Auckland Writers Festival.