Claudia Orange
1938
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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: New Zealand
educated at: University of Auckland
occupation: historian
award received: Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, Companion of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement (Non-Fiction)
student of: Maurice Peter Keith Sorrenson
Dame Claudia Josepha Orange (née Bell, born 17 April 1938) is a New Zealand historian best known for her 1987 book The Treaty of Waitangi, which won 'Book of the Year' at the Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Award in 1988.Since 2013 she has been the head of research at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington, where she was previously the director of collections and research. In 2018 she was made a Companion of the Royal Society Te Apārangi in recognition of her service to the humanities. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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