Danny Keenan 'completed a PhD in history at Massey University in 1994 and was appointed Lecturer in History, becoming a Senior Lecturer in 2004. Danny was a founding member of Te Pouhere Kōrero, a Māori historians network established in 1992. In 2009, he received a Fullbright Senior Scholar Award to teach New Zealand history at Georgetown University, Washington DC. Danny has published widely on Māori and New Zealand history. In 2016 he was awarded a Ngā Kupu Ora Māori Book Award for his Te Whiti O Rongomai and the Resistance of Parihaka (Huia Publishers, 2015)....Danny was also awarded the Michael King Fellowship in 2023 to write In Sickness and in Health - A Cultural History of 3 Māori Pandemics 1895-2022. He is now a full-time writer living in Whanganui.'
Biographical sources
- Ngā Kupu Wero Ed. Witi Ihimaera. New Zealand: Penguin Books, 2023. 352-353.
Non-fiction
- "A Permanent Expedient? MMP and Māori Politics." He Pukenga Kōrero: A Journal of Māori Studies 2.1 (1996): 58-61.
- Huia histories of Māori: ngā tāhuhu kōrero. Ed. Danny Keenan. Wellington, N.Z. : Huia, 2012.
- Te Whiti O Rongomai and the Resistance of Parihaka. Huia Publishers, 2015.
- Keenan was awarded a Ngā Kupu Ora Māori Book Award for this publication in 2016.
- Wars Without End. Ngāā Pakanga Whenua O Mua. New Zealand's Land Wars - A Māori Perspective. Penguin, revised edition, 2021.
- Ahuwhenua: Celebrating 90 Years of Māori Farming Revised Edition, Huia Publishers, 2023.
- The Fate of the Land: Ko Ngā Ākinga a ngā Rangatira. Massey University Press, 2023.
- Extracts from Wars Without End. Rpt. in Ngā Kupu Wero. Ed. Witi Ihimaera. New Zealand: Penguin Books, 2023. 50-60..