Danny Keenan (Ngāti Te Whiti ki Te Ātiawa) completed a PhD in history at Massey University in 1994 and became a senior lecturer there in 2004. In 2009 he won a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award to teach New Zealand history at Georgetown University, Washington DC. He has published widely on Māori and New Zealand history. In 2016, Te Whiti O Rongomai and the Resistance of Parihaka (Huia, 2015) received a Ngā Kupu Ora Māori Book Award, and his 2009 book Wars Without End Ngā Pakanga Whenua o Mua: New Zealand’s Land Wars — a Māori perspective was revised and reissued in 2021. Danny lives in Whanganui.