Our people are at the heart of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga. Across Aotearoa and beyond, our whānau of researchers, students, partners, and professional staff are united by a shared commitment to advancing Māori knowledge, innovation, and excellence. Explore the profiles below to learn more about the diverse individuals who contribute to our research community and help shape a flourishing future for Māori.
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Associate Professor Awi Mona
Seediq Nation, Indigenous Taiwanese
National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
Associate Professor and Director of the Department of Institute of Financial and Economic Law
Awi Mona is a member of the Seediq Indigenous Nation of Taiwan and serves as Professor of Law and Dean of the College…
Associate Professor Awi Mona
Awi Mona is a member of the Seediq Indigenous Nation of Taiwan and serves as Professor of Law and Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan’s leading university for Indigenous studies. One of the first Indigenous scholars in Taiwan to earn a Ph.D. in Law, his research focuses on Indigenous legal orders, Indigenous self-determination, legal pluralism, and the revitalization of Indigenous governance. Through comparative and community-engaged research across Taiwan, Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada, Japan, and the Pacific, he works collaboratively…
Kanako Uzawa
Ainu
University of Melbourne
Visiting Scholar
Dr. Kanako Uzawa is an Ainu scholar, artist, museum curator, and advocate dedicated to amplifying Indigenous voices…
Kanako Uzawa
Dr. Kanako Uzawa is an Ainu scholar, artist, museum curator, and advocate dedicated to amplifying Indigenous voices worldwide. As the founder of AinuToday and CEO of K. Uzawa Consult, she bridges academic and public platforms to celebrate Indigenous identity. She is also an Assistant Professor at the Global Station for Indigenous Studies and Cultural Diversity at Hokkaido University and an affiliated researcher at the Historical Museum of the University of Oslo, Norway.Dr. Uzawa holds an MA in Indigenous Studies and a PhD in Community Planning and Cultural Understanding from UiT Arctic…
Professor Elizabeth Sumida Huaman
Quechua
University of Minnesota, USA
Professor of Comparative and International Development Education
Situated in the Mantaro Valley of Junín, Peru is an autochthonous Quechua Indigenous community that I call home. My…
Professor Elizabeth Sumida Huaman
Situated in the Mantaro Valley of Junín, Peru is an autochthonous Quechua Indigenous community that I call home. My mother and her siblings were born and raised in an adobe family house built by my grandparents, Antonieta Jesusa Carhuamaca and Antonio Huaman. Two floors of small rooms are linked by a wooden ladder that leads up to a balcony where a view of the entire valley includes one of our sacred mountain glaciers, Waytapallana—source of epistemic and ontological affirmation and renewal for the Indigenous people of this region. I am an educational researcher because of my connections to…
Professor Troy Storfjell
Sámi
Pacific Lutheran University, USA
Professor and Director Native American and Indigenous Studies
Troy Storfjell (Sámi) specializes in Sámi and Indigenous studies, where his work is largely guided by Indigenist…
Professor Troy Storfjell
Troy Storfjell (Sámi) specializes in Sámi and Indigenous studies, where his work is largely guided by Indigenist criticism and decolonize methodologies. In his scholarship Troy works to create a place for Indigenous intellectual and philosophical traditions within the academy, bringing Sámi ways of knowing to bear on such topics as settler colonial literature, multicultural diversity and trans-Indigenous film studies. In his teaching Troy strives for a student-centered approach and for classrooms that can become collaborative learning communities. He teaches in Norwegian and Scandinavian Area…
Professor Shannon Speed
Chickasaw
University of California Los Angeles, USA
Professor & Director of American Indian Studies Center
Dr. Shannon Speed is a tribal citizen of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma. She is Director of the American Indian…
Professor Shannon Speed
Dr. Shannon Speed is a tribal citizen of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma. She is Director of the American Indian Studies Center (AISC) and Professor of Gender Studies and Anthropology at UCLA. Dr. Speed has worked for the last two decades in Mexico and in the United States on issues of indigenous autonomy, sovereignty, gender, neoliberalism, violence, migration, social justice, and activist research. She has published numerous journal articles and book chapters in English and Spanish, and has published seven books and edited volumes, including her most recent, Incarcerated Stories…
Associate Professor Ánde Somby
Sámi
UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway
Associate Professor
Ánde Somby is a Sami scholar, musician, and writer renowned for his lifelong work in bridging indigenous culture and…
Associate Professor Ánde Somby
Ánde Somby is a Sami scholar, musician, and writer renowned for his lifelong work in bridging indigenous culture and legal academia. As an associate professor specializing in Indigenous Rights Law at the University of Tromsø and a celebrated traditional joik artist, Somby embodies a unique synthesis of intellectual rigor and deep cultural practice. His career is characterized by a profound commitment to articulating and defending Sami worldview and rights through both scholarly discourse and artistic expression.Ánde Somby was born and raised in Buolbmat, Norway, within a culturally rich Sami…
Dr. Wasiq Silan
Tayal
National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
Assistant Professor Indigenous Development and Social Work
Lokah simu kwara! I am Wasiq Silan (I-An Gao 高怡安). I am a Tayal woman from the Mstaranan known as the Nanshi River…
Dr. Wasiq Silan
Lokah simu kwara! I am Wasiq Silan (I-An Gao 高怡安). I am a Tayal woman from the Mstaranan known as the Nanshi River valley in the northern part of Taiwan. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Helsinki in 2021. My work engages with Taiwan's social policy and the Tayal elders, grounded in interpretive policy analysis and critical ethnography while drawing from Indigenous methodologies. Doing Indigenous methodologies heal self-doubt and colonial wounds. You can listen to a short poem reflecting on my self-doubt about not being Indigenous here. I was a core fellow at the prestigious Helsinki…
Dr. Marama Salsano
Ngāi Tūhoe, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Wairere
Te Wānanga o Aotearoa
Dr Marama Salsano joined Te Manawahoukura in 2025. She has extensive high school English teaching experience in…
Dr. Marama Salsano
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.
Robin Quigg
Raukawa, Ngāti Tamaterā
University of Otago
Associate Professor - Māori Health
I have a wide range of research interests with experience in physical activity and playgrounds (with accelerometers and…
Robin Quigg
I have a wide range of research interests with experience in physical activity and playgrounds (with accelerometers and GPS units), smokefree environment policy evaluation, and equity in tertiary education.I am particularly interested in decolonising spaces, such as parks, as they are largely westernised concept, reflecting the industrial revolution distinction between work and leisure, with the parks the result of colonisation, space taken from indigenous cultures. They are not innocuous features of the landscape especially in cities, but result from colonialist intervention, and have…
Associate Professor Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio
Kanaka Maoli
University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
Associate Professor in Political Science
I am a Kanaka Maoli wahine mākua, artist, activist, scholar, and storyteller born and raised in Pālolo Valley to my…
Associate Professor Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio
I am a Kanaka Maoli wahine mākua, artist, activist, scholar, and storyteller born and raised in Pālolo Valley to my parents, Jonathan and Mary Osorio. I earned my PhD in English (Hawaiian literature) in 2018 from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where I currently work as an Associate Professor of Indigenous and Native Hawaiian Politics. In 2020, my poetry and activism were the subject of an award-winning film, This is the Way We Rise, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2021. In 2022, I was a lead artist and co-writer of the VR documentary On the Morning You Wake (To the End of…
Dominic O'Sullivan
Te Rarawa, Ngāti Kahu
Charles Sturt University, Australia
Professor in Political Science
Professor Dominic O'Sullivan is a political scientist in the School of Social Work and Arts and Yindymarra Nguluway. He…
Dominic O'Sullivan
Professor Dominic O'Sullivan is a political scientist in the School of Social Work and Arts and Yindymarra Nguluway. He is interested in comparative indigenous politics and public policy and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He has authored eight books and co-edited one. Dominic has published more than 60 journal articles and book chapters and more than 120 articles for public audiences, including in the Conversation, Open Forum and the New Zealand Herald.Dominic is also an Adjunct Professor at the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies at Victoria University…
Associate Professor David Newhouse
Onondaga
Trent University, Canada
Associate Professor & Chair, Chaney Wenjack School of Indigenous Studies
David Newhouse is Onondaga from the Six Nations of the Grand River community near Brantford, Ontario. He was the first…
Associate Professor David Newhouse
David Newhouse is Onondaga from the Six Nations of the Grand River community near Brantford, Ontario. He was the first Principal of the new Peter Gzowski College at Trent University and Chair of the Department of Indigenous Studies. He is also an Associate Professor in the Business Administration Program. Professor Newhouse is Co-Chair of the Trent Aboriginal Education Council. He was the IMC/U of S Aboriginal Scholar in Residence at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon in 1998/99. He also teaches in the Graduate CED Program at Concordia University.He served as founding editor of the…
Associate Professor Renée Monchalin
Métis
University of Toronto, Canada
Associate Professor
Dr. Renée Monchalin is a Scientist at Unity Health Toronto, cross appointed with the Well Living House, and MAP Centre…
Associate Professor Renée Monchalin
Dr. Renée Monchalin is a Scientist at Unity Health Toronto, cross appointed with the Well Living House, and MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute.She is the Director of the Fireweed Project, a community-led project aimed at advancing knowledge around, and removing barriers to accessing abortion services and care for Indigenous peoples in Canada. The Fireweed Project is currently hiring.Dr. Monchalin’s research explores access to culturally safe health services, primarily with urban Métis Peoples. Her research program advances Métis reproductive…
Bradley Moggridge
Kamilaroi , Murri
University of Technology Sydney
Professor and Associate Dean Indigenous Leadership and Engagement
Prof Bradley Moggridge is a proud Kamilaroi man (North-West NSW) living on Ngunnawal Country. He is currently Professor…
Bradley Moggridge
Prof Bradley Moggridge is a proud Kamilaroi man (North-West NSW) living on Ngunnawal Country. He is currently Professor (Science) and Associate Dean (Indigenous Leadership and Engagement) at the University of Technology Sydney, previously was an Associate Professor in Indigenous Water Science at the University of Canberra and in 2023 was conferred with a PhD (Science). Between 2017-22 he was the Indigenous Liaison Officer for the Threatened Species Hub under NESP.He was appointed by IPCC as Lead Author for Assessment Report 7 WG1 Chapter 10 and is a Board Member with the NSW EPA and…
Professor Onowa McIvor Whitinui
nehinaw
University of Victoria, Canada
Professor
Onowa McIvor Whitinui is a member of Kinoséwi Sípíhk (Norway House Cree Nation) and connected to Cross Lake in Treaty 5…
Professor Onowa McIvor Whitinui
Onowa McIvor Whitinui is a member of Kinoséwi Sípíhk (Norway House Cree Nation) and connected to Cross Lake in Treaty 5 territory (northern Manitoba) on her mother and Scottish-Canadian through her father. She is a grateful resident of the SENĆOŦEN and lək̓ʷəŋən speaking territories. She is a lifelong language learner, activist, researcher and professor in Indigenous Language Revitalization.
Professor Ana Magdalena Hurtado
Arizona State University, USA
Professor
Ana Magdalena Hurtado is a professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, and Affiliate Faculty member…
Professor Ana Magdalena Hurtado
Ana Magdalena Hurtado is a professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, and Affiliate Faculty member of the Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation. In 1991, with funding from William T Grant career, she completed career development training in epidemiology at the School of Public Health, University of Michigan. After fifteen years of postdoctoral fieldwork, and faculty appointments at Emory University and the University of New Mexico, Hurtado moved to ASU to help build the first anthropology-based Global Health program. In 2012, Hurtado was inducted as fellow of…
Shelley Hoani
Waikato
Te Wānanga o Aotearoa
With over two decades of experience in tertiary education within a Wānanga context, Dr Shelley Hoani has gained…
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…
Professor Ayano Gizano
University of the Ryukyus, Japan
Professor, Research Institute for Islands and Sustainability
Ayano Ginoza is a Professor in the Research Institute for Islands and Sustainability at the University of the Ryukyus…
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.
Dolores Figueroa Romero
CIESAS, Mexico
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Dr. Dolores Figueroa Romero is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center of Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology and…
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…
Dr. Isla Emery-Whittington
Rereahu, Ngāti Kauwhata, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa
Emery Whittington Consultants Ltd
Occupational Therapist / Researcher / Tiriti antiracism educator / NESP mental health and addictions educator
Isla Emery-Whittington is an occupational therapist and consultant. Her research examines western theories and notions…
Dr. Isla Emery-Whittington
Isla Emery-Whittington is an occupational therapist and consultant. Her research examines western theories and notions of everyday occupations as shaped and produced by colonisation. The research aims to reveal taken for granted colonial notions of daily occupations and privilege exploration of a Kaupapa Māori theory of everyday occupations as accessible spaces of healing and connections to kaitiakitanga.
Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Central Connecticut State University, USA
Professor of History and African Studies
Dr. Gloria T. Emeagwali is a Professor of History and African Studies, Central Connecticut State University.In…
Professor Gloria Emeagwali
Dr. Gloria T. Emeagwali is a Professor of History and African Studies, Central Connecticut State University.In 'africahistory.net' we present various perspectives on African Indigenous Knowledge Systems(AIK) from a wide range of scholars. We publish brief extracts from scholarly works on the subject and focus on several areas. We are proud to say that this site has been listed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as one of the top 50 of African websites
Professor Serafín M. Coronel-Molina
Huanca Quechua
Indiana University, USA
Professor in Curriculum and Instruction
I am an Indigenous scholar from South America and a native speaker of Huanca Quechua, an endangered variety spoken in…
Professor Serafín M. Coronel-Molina
I am an Indigenous scholar from South America and a native speaker of Huanca Quechua, an endangered variety spoken in the central highlands of Peru. My life and work are deeply informed by my cultural and linguistic roots, which ground my scholarship, teaching, and activism. I earned my Ph.D. in Educational Linguistics/Sociolinguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, where I specialized in the study of language, power, and identity in multilingual and multicultural contexts. Before that, I received my M.A. in Hispanic Linguistics from The Ohio State University, an experience that provided…
Dr. Tania Canas
Salvadoran
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland
Post Doctoral Fellow
Dr. Tania Cañas is an artist-researcher whose work focuses on the intersection of forced displacement, borders, memory…
Dr. Tania Canas
Dr. Tania Cañas is an artist-researcher whose work focuses on the intersection of forced displacement, borders, memory, and decoloniality through community-led creative and performance practices. Her research is grounded in arts-based, practice-led, and participatory methodologies that foreground lived experience. Her lived experience as a Salvadorian refugee who grew up in Naarm on unceded Kulin Territory informs her scholarship with a deeply personal, ethical, and critical perspective, shaping her commitment to relational and community-embedded modes of knowledge-making. In 2023, the…
Dr. Joni Angeli-Gordon
Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Whātua, Te Roroa
Te Wānanga o Aotearoa
Director at Te Manawahoukura Rangahau Centre
Dr Joni Angeli-Gordon (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Whātua, Te Roroa) is Te Paemanu | Director at Te Manawahoukura Rangahau Centre at…
Dr. Joni Angeli-Gordon
Dr Joni Angeli-Gordon (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Whātua, Te Roroa) is Te Paemanu | Director at Te Manawahoukura Rangahau Centre at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa. Her research is an invitation to return to aroha as an intellectual discipline, to ancestral intelligence as method, and to gentle insistence as a transformative force. Working across Kaupapa Māori, Indigenous child development, Māori mindfulness (mauritau), educational psychology, and placefulness, Joni explores what it means for mokopuna and whānau to thrive — not in theory alone, but in lived, intergenerational, and embodied ways. Her work centres…
Dr. Sandra Yellowhorse
Diné/Navajo
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland
Research Fellow
Shí ié Sandra Yellowhorse yínishií. Kinyaa’aani nishłí adóó Bílligáana báshíchiin. Tachiinii dashichei adóó Kin’łichní…
Dr. Sandra Yellowhorse
Shí ié Sandra Yellowhorse yínishií. Kinyaa’aani nishłí adóó Bílligáana báshíchiin. Tachiinii dashichei adóó Kin’łichní dashináli. Nani’zhoozhí di shiʼdizhch. Tāmaki Makaurau Aotearoa déé naasha.I am a critical Indigenous disability scholar who specialises in Indigenous perspectives of disability and autism. I center first-person experiences and family cultural narratives to reframe understandings of disability to combat social stigma and build nurturing environments of belonging and empowerment. Committed to Diné ancestral, land-based knowledge, my research explores the abundance of many ways…
Dr Awanui Te Huia
Ngāti Maniapoto
Independent Kaupapa Māori Researcher
Associate Professor Awanui Te Huia (Ngāti Maniapoto) is a recipient of Ako Aotearoa Sustained Excellence in Tertiary…
Dr Awanui Te Huia
Associate Professor Awanui Te Huia (Ngāti Maniapoto) is a recipient of Ako Aotearoa Sustained Excellence in Tertiary Teaching Award (Kaupapa Māori Category), recognising her outstanding contribution to reo Māori education and kaupapa Māori research at Te Herenga Waka; Victoria University of Wellington.Her teaching is known for creating enjoyable, creative, and safe spaces that empower learners. Her teaching approach weaves together psychology, kaupapa Māori methods, and innovative tools to make te reo Māori accessible and inspiring for current and future learners. This nationally recognised…
Summer Rangimaarie Wright
Ngāti Maniapoto
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland
Research Fellow
Summer (Ngāti Maniapoto) trained as a dietitian and is a public health researcher focused on climate justice, health…
Summer Rangimaarie Wright
Summer (Ngāti Maniapoto) trained as a dietitian and is a public health researcher focused on climate justice, health equity, and food sovereignty. She has also worked in disability as a youth worker and support worker. Summer has a few creative pursuits and likes to spend time outside and with animals.
Dr Kiri Dell
Ngāti Porou
University of Auckland
Senior Lecturer
Kiri Dell is a lecturer in property in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Auckland. Her…
Dr Kiri Dell
Kiri Dell is a lecturer in property in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Auckland. Her teaching focuses on Māori land issues and Māori entrepreneurship and business development. Kiri’s research and areas of expertise focuses on competitive Māori strategy, Māori economics and Māori business.
Associate Professor Linda Te Aho
Ngāti Koroki Kahukura, Waikato-Tainui
University of Waikato
Associate Professor
Linda Te Aho, MNZM, (Ngāti Koroki Kahukura, Waikato-Tainui) is an Associate Professor in Te Piringa Faculty of Law and…
Associate Professor Linda Te Aho
Linda Te Aho, MNZM, (Ngāti Koroki Kahukura, Waikato-Tainui) is an Associate Professor in Te Piringa Faculty of Law and in 2025 was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Māori and to Legal Education. Linda has long served as the Associate Dean Māori for the law faculty, and more recently for the newly created Division of Arts, Law, Psychology and Social Sciences. An experienced governor, Linda continues to hold senior governance positions for the large iwi organisation, Waikato-Tainui (Te Arataura) and is a member of the Institute of Directors. As a guardian appointed by…
Distinguished Professor Jacinta Ruru FRSNZ
Raukawa, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāti Maniapoto
Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, University of Otago
Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Māori
Distinguished Professor Jacinta Ruru FRSNZ is a proud University of Otago graduate and since 1999 has had an…
Distinguished Professor Jacinta Ruru FRSNZ
Distinguished Professor Jacinta Ruru FRSNZ is a proud University of Otago graduate and since 1999 has had an award-winning career based in the Faculty of Law.Her research considers how state legal systems should reconcile with their Indigenous peoples, their laws and knowledges, and specifically considers how law and policy can be more Te Tiriti o Waitangi compliant to better enable Māori to contribute towards caring for, owning, managing and governing lands and waters. Her work has advanced options including legal personality of the environment and creating a bijural legal education. Her…