GISELLE M. BYRNES is a lecturer in New Zealand history at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, where she teaches courses on the Treaty of Waitangi, nineteenth-century Maori-Pakeha relations, and public history. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is a Member of the Executive of the New Zealand Historical Association and is editor of the Association's Newsletter. In 1995-96 she was employed as a historian for the Waitangi Tribunal, where she worked on The Taranaki Report: Kaupapa Tuatahi (1996). She has published a number of articles in refereed journals and is currently working on a book examining the historiographical role of the Waitangi Tribunal and the treaty claims process in New Zealand. A book coming out later this year focuses on colonial land surveying.