Norman Naimark in New Zealand

Norman Naimark, '66, MA '68, PhD '72, is the Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of East European History, emeritus, and has served as the chair of Stanford’s history department, the Burke Family Director of Stanford’s Bing Overseas Studies Program and the Sakurako and William Fisher Family Director of Stanford’s Global Studies Division. During our program he will lecture on the central role of the Maori in New Zealand’s history past and present, their culture, language and relationship to their indigeneity, the history of New Zealand’s exploration and colonization, the role of World War I and World War II in the making of modern New Zealand, and the political and environmental challenges faced by contemporary New Zealanders.

• Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution 

• Senior Fellow (courtesy) at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

• Recipient: Richard W. Lyman Award for outstanding faculty volunteer service, Stanford Alumni Association, 1995; Dean’s Teaching Award, Stanford University, 1991–1992, 2002–2003; and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1996

• BA 1966, MA 1968 and PhD 1972—all history, Stanford University