Michael Belgrave is a professor of history at Massey University, the author of Historical Frictions: Maori Claims and Reinvented Histories and From Empire's Servant to Global Citizen: A History of Massey University, co-author of Social policy in Aotearoa New Zealand and co-editor of The Treaty on the Ground: Where We Are Headed, and Why It Matters. He was previously research manager of the Waitangi Tribunal and has continued to work on Treaty of Waitangi research and settlements, providing substantial research reports into a wide number of the Waitangi Tribunal's inquiries. He received a Marsden Fund award in 2015 for study into the re-examination of the causes of the New Zealand wars of the 1860s.