Recipients

2021

Annie Goldson, recognising her 26 films, many of them award-winning, that explore difficult contemporary socio-political issues ranging from war, genocide, and sexuality to surveillance, internet piracy and politics, and for her contribution to the academy.

2020

Jack Copeland. Jack is a leading philosopher of artificial intelligence, computing and information technology, and a world-wide expert on Alan Turning. 

2019

Selina Tusitala Marsh for her outstanding creative and scholarly work as a poet and notable Pacific scholar which has had a profound impact in academic, literary and public domains.

2018

Barbara Brookes for her outstanding contribution to Humanities scholarship, reshaping the history of New Zealand by putting women at the centre of a substantial and internationally recognised body of scholarly work culminating in A History of New Zealand Women.

2017

Laurie Bauer for his world-renowned research has focused on word-formation, the description of New Zealand English, and the sound structure of language

2016

Tony Ballantyne for reshaping the scholarly interpretation of British imperial history by demonstrating the importance of networks, cultural difference and mobility, and reconstructing the centrality of colonialism and empires in the making of the modern world

2015

Atholl Anderson for his outstanding contribution to the humanities through research on pre-European migration and colonisation of oceanic islands

2014

Brian Boyd for his wide-ranging contribution to the humanities

2013

Not awarded.

2012

Alan Musgrave for his enduring and profound influence as a philosopher of science whose influence has ranged widely across the humanities and social sciences

2011

Jim Flynn for his outstanding work in political philosophy, in particular his discovery of historical gains in IQ, now known as the ‘Flynn Effect’