University of Otago

Faculty Member, Te Tumu, School of Maori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies

Lecturer

About

Tēnā rā koe.

I am a lecturer in Māori Studies at Te Tumu: School of Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies, University of Otago.  My main teaching responsibilities are in Māori-language teaching, and Māori history.

I try to meld my interests in history (social, cultural, political and religious) and te reo Māori within my research, with particular attention in Māori language sources.  I also wrote my PhD thesis on mid nineteenth-century Māori-language newspapers bilingually (i.e. English and Māori-language versions) and have an article (forthcoming) written in Māori.

My research continues to focuses on Māori-language print history, and I am currently part of a small group writing a “history of the book in New Zealand”.

Connections have also led me into new fields, and I am currently undertaking research on the female workers of the Presbyterian Maori Mission 1907-1970, under the aegis of Te Aka Puaho (Presbyterian Māori Synod).  This is a mixed method project, incorporating both oral histories and archival research.  This work also fits into Te Whakapapa o te Whakapono, a wider research community of scholars both within and outside of academia, who seek to explore the many ways in which Māori embraced Christianity.

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