Damon Salesa
Damon Ieremia Salesa (born 30 December 1972) is a New Zealand academic. Of Samoan descent, he is the first Pacific person to hold the position of vice-chancellor at a New Zealand university. Education Raised in Glen Innes, Salesa attended Selwyn College and then the University of Auckland. He graduated in 1997 with a master's of arts and the title of his thesis was ''"Troublesome half-castes" : tales of a Samoan borderland''. Salesa was the first Rhodes Scholar of Pacific descent, obtaining his PhD from the University of Oxford. The title of his doctoral thesis was ''Race mixing: a Victorian problem in Britain and New Zealand, 1830s–1870''. Academic career He was an associate professor of history at the University of Michigan, before returning to Auckland where he has been co-head of Te Wānanga o Waipapa (School of Māori Studies and Pacific Studies) and pro vice-chancellor (Pacific) at the University of Auckland. Salesa is a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi ...
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