Matthew Woodbury
Wellington
Matt, president of PHANZA since January 2025, is a senior historian at Te Tari Whakatau – the Office of Treaty Settlements and Takutai Moana where his work focuses on developing redress for Māori groups settling historic Treaty of Waitangi claims against the Crown. Beginning in 2021, he designed and facilitated courses for public servants about the history of the Treaty of Waitangi and the Māori Crown relationship and has also developed series of online modules on this theme.
Prior to becoming a public servant in 2020, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan where he taught classes on environmental and imperial history. Trained at Stanford University, the University of Oxford, and the University of Michigan as a historian of Britain and the British Empire, his research interests focus on the history of humanitarianism and how communities learn from, utilize, and seek to regulate environments at both local and global scales.
Matt has also worked with the US National Park Service developing National Historic Landmark nominations for properties in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
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