Richard S Hill is Professor of New Zealand Studies at the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, and Director of the Treaty of Waitangi Research Unit within the Stout Research Centre. He holds three degrees from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, including Doctor of Letters. He has been a Commonwealth Scholar at Cambridge University, and a senior historian for the New Zealand government. He has been both Chief Historian and a senior negotiator for the New Zealand Crown in its negotiations to provide reparations to Maori tribes under the Treaty of Waitangi. He has been Archives By-Fellow, Churchill College Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge University; a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, where he is a Life Member; a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge University; and a Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of History, Cambridge University. He has written six books: Maori and the State: Crown–Maori Relations in New Zealand/Aotearoa, 1950-2000, 2009; State Authority, Indigenous Autonomy: Crown–Maori Relations in New Zealand/Aotearoa, 1900–1950, 2004; The Iron Hand in the Velvet Glove: The Modernisation of Policing in New Zealand 1886-1917,1995; The Colonial Frontier Tamed: New Zealand Policing in Transition, 1867-1886, 1989; Policing the Colonial Frontier: The Theory and Practice of Coercive Social and Racial Control in New Zealand, 1767-1867 (two-volume set), 1986. He has also co-edited books and written many articles and chapters reflecting his main research interests: the relationship between the Maori assertion of rangatiratanga/autonomy and the New Zealand state; comparative colonial policing; security policing; and nineteenth century colonial criminality. Recent publications include ‘War and Police: The Armed Constabulary in the Taranaki Wars’, in Kelvin Day (ed), Contested Ground Te Whenua I Tohea: The Taranaki Wars 1860-1881, 2010, and ‘Fitting Multiculturalism into Biculturalism: Maori-Pasifika Relations in New Zealand from the 1960s’, Ethnohistory, 57/2.