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Distinguished Professor receives top international scientific accolades

Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Maori Studies Dame Anne Salmond CBE FRSNZ has been elected a foreign associate in the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for her excellence in scientific research.

Membership in the NAS is the highest honour given to a scientist or engineer in the United States, with even fewer scientists around the world being elected as foreign associates.

Professor Salmond will be inducted into the Academy next April during its 147th annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

Professor Salmond was also elected as a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy last year, one of just 307 such fellows.

 

She is the only New Zealander known to have achieved this double distinction. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1990.

With her explorations of Captain James Cook and blue-water navigation, Professor Salmond is internationally recognised for broadening the horizons of how Pacific voyaging is understood. Her recent research output includes a book in press, Aphrodite's Island: The European Discovery of Tahiti; and a new book on William Bligh and the mutiny on the Bounty.

She has won numerous awards for books that include Hui: A Study of Maori Ceremonial Gatherings; Amiria, Eruera: Teachings of a Maori Elder;and Two Worlds: First Meetings between Maori and Europeans. Professor Salmond’s The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas (Allen Lane 2003), won the Montana Book Award in 2004; and in that same year she received the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement.

 

The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit honorific society of distinguished scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furthering science and technology and to their use for the general welfare. 

Established in 1863, the National Academy of Sciences has served to "investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art" whenever called upon to do so by any department of the government.

For more information, or for the full list of newly elected members, visit http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer


 

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