Danny Keenan (Ngāti Te Whiti Ahi Kā, Te Ātiawa) is a researcher and writer, has a PhD in history from Massey University, and was a founding member of Te Pouhere Kōrero, Māori Historians Network. He has previously worked in the Department of Māori Affairs and is a former senior lecturer in Māori and New Zealand History at Massey University, Palmerston North. In 2009 he was visiting Fulbright professor at Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
