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Humanities fellow Dame Anne Salmond nominated for New Zealander of the Year
7 December 2009
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Fellow of the New Zealand Academy of the Humantities-Aronui, Dame Anne Salmond has been nominated for the 2009 New Zealander of the year. The nomination recognises her impressive academic achievements in the field of anthropology.
According to Salmond's 2007 FNZAH citation, Distinguished Professor Dame Anne Salmond is one of New Zealand’s most outstanding scholars, having shown a remarkable ability to sustain an excellent record of academic achievement throughout her professional career. Her work is interdisciplinary, straddling Social Anthropology, History and aspects of associate fields such as Navigation and Linguistics; it also absorbs cross-cultural perspectives in European, Māori and Pacific Island contexts, and it is her exceptional ability to represent the dynamics of these encounters that is most admired by her peers.
This year she was elected a foreign associate in the American National Academy of Sciences for excellence in scientific research, following a 2008 election as a corresponding fellow of the British Academy for humanities and social sciences.
For more information about the title and nominees, refer to the New Zealand Herald story.
