Dr Marama Salsano joined Te Manawahoukura in 2025. She has extensive high school English teaching experience in Aotearoa New Zealand. Her PhD project explored multigenre as an Indigenous form and contemplated the relationship between visual creativity and writing. As a collaborative and interdisciplinary researcher, Marama works at the intersection of Māori literary studies, toi Māori (Māori art), creative writing, and iwi Rangahau. Her current research interests reflect the contours, dynamism and scope of Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki archival writing and publishing.
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Dolores Figueroa Romero
Dr. Dolores Figueroa Romero is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center of Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology and Ethnology (CIESAS) in Mexico City, and Associate Fellow of the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) at York University, Toronto, Canada. She received a PhD in Sociology from York University in 2011. She is a young scholar with extensive involvement in academia, activism and policy advocacy in the fields of politics, gender, and ethnicity in Latin America. Dolores’s research work focuses on the intersections of transnational feminism, Indigenous women’s…
Professor Ayano Gizano
Ayano Ginoza is a Professor in the Research Institute for Islands and Sustainability at the University of the Ryukyus. Her work looks at cultures of militarism and feminist decolonial work in Okinawa. She currently focuses on issues of performativity and indigeneities of militarized islands cultures as articulated in Okinawan diasporic communities in California.
Shelley Hoani
With over two decades of experience in tertiary education within a Wānanga context, Dr Shelley Hoani has gained considerable experience in various aspects of Ako (teaching, learning), Aro (reflective practice), and Rangahau (Māori/Indigenous inquiry). Notably, Shelley has served as the lead for Publications and Ethics, acquiring extensive knowledge and experience in both of these areas. Shelley's interests encompass a wide range of personal, professional, and scholarly kaupapa, including wāhine Māori leadership, Indigenous frameworks of being, notions of success, the social construction of…