Recipients
Recipients of the Royal Society Te Apārangi Early Career Research Excellence Award for Humanities.
Latest recipient
Luke Fitzmaurice-Brown (Te Aupōuri) won the 2024 Early Career Research Excellence Award for Humanities for his work on decolonising the Aotearoa New Zealand child protection system.
Previous recipients
| 2023 | No award |
| 2022 | Anna High for her socio-legal exploration of orphan relief efforts, child rights and charity regulation in Mainland China. |
| 2021 | Elizabeth Jane Macpherson for her work exploring opportunities for Indigenous peoples' water rights in laws and policies around the world. |
| 2020 | Ngarino Ellis (Ngāpuhi/Ngāti Porou) for her work on Māori art history. |
| 2019 | No award |
| 2018 | Carwyn Jones for his ground-breaking book, New Treaty, New Tradition, which reveals new ways of using Indigenous knowledge to understand how law shapes society. |
| 2017 | Aroha Harris for her substantial contributions to the award winning Māori history, Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History, which spans the entirety of Māori history. She was lead author of the section on sociocultural history of twentieth-century Māori. |