Redemption Songs: A Life of the Nineteenth-Century Maori Leader Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki

Judith Binney is a professor with the University of Auckland Department of History and an expert in the history of Maori-European interactions. She contributes to The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, The New Zealand Journal of History, and other scholarly publications. Binney's book Redemption Songs: A Life of Te Kooti Arikirangi was the winner of the Book of the Year in the Cultural Heritage Section of the Montana Book Awards and was runner-up for the Australian-New Zealand Ernest Scott Award. Nga Morehu: The Survivors was nominated for a Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Award. She, along with Atholl Anderson and Aroha Harris, won the 2016 New Zealand Awards illustrated nonfiction award for Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History.