April 29, 2015
First encounter expert embraced by peers
There's more recognition for the University of Auckland’s Dame Anne Salmond.
Dame Anne, a Distinguished Professor of Maori Studies and Anthropology, has been elected as an International member of the American Philosophical Society.
Membership in the 270-year-old society is entirely honorary and reflects extraordinary accomplishments in all fields of intellectual endeavour.
Other scholars elected by the society's members at the same time as Dame Anne include economists Lord Nicholas Stern, the author of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, and Thomas Piketty, whose book Capital ignited the debate around rising inequality.
Dame Anne says the nomination came out of the blue, and is a marvellous and unexpected honour.
The 2013 New Zealander of the year is also a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy chaired by Lord Stern, and a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences in the US.
She was also the first social scientist to be given the Royal Society's Rutherford Medal, New Zealand's highest research medal.
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