Rate My Professor Paerau Warbrick

Warbrick's research specializations include Māori history, politics, and law, the Treaty of Waitangi, and Māori elections particularly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He teaches MAOR 204: Te Tiriti o Waitangi, MAOR 304: Te Rōpū Whakamana i te Tiriti - Waitangi Tribunal, and MAOR 404: Toitū te Whenua - Land, Lore and Colonialism. As Chair of the Undergraduate Committee and Program Coordinator for Indigenous Studies, he contributes significantly to curriculum development and student programs. Key publications feature 'The super-narrative effect. The resonance of written letters for whānau in the historical record' in the Journal of New Zealand Studies (2023), guest editing the special issue 'He Tuhinga Tuku Iho: Texts, contexts, resonances' of the Journal of New Zealand Studies (2023, with Lachy Paterson), a review of 'The Fate of the Land: Māori Political Struggle in the Liberal Era, 1891-1912' in the New Zealand Journal of History (2024), and a review titled 'A Trojan Horse' of 'The English Text of the Treaty of Waitangi' in Landfall Review Online (2023). Additionally, he discussed 'Treaty of Waitangi and co-governance' on Otago Access Radio in 2023.