Dr Jim Williams

Jim Williams BA(Hons) (Well), MA, PhD(Otago)
Pūkenga Matua, Senior Lecturer (Appointed 1992)
(Ngāi Tahu)

Contact details

Room Richardson South Tower, Rm 4S7
Phone 64 3 479 7385

Email jim.williams@otago.ac.nz

Research

Dr Williams' research interests include Ngāi Tahu history and language and resource management including mahika kai, as well as comparisons with other Indigenous peoples. He is also conducting international comparisons in Rarotonga and with Native Americans looking at landscape and oral traditions amongst Indigenous Peoples.

Teaching

Supervision

Current

Daniela Serra - PhD
Delyn Day - PhD
David Mckay - PhD

Past

Abby Suszco - PhD
Anne-Marie Jackson - PhD
Fallyn Flavell - MIndS
Hauauru Rae - BA (Hons)
Hernare Mita - MA (2009)
Puawai Solo - MIndS (2009)
Sophia Beaton - MA - A Contemporary Māori Culinary Tradition (2007)
David Dudfield - MIndS (2007)
Rangimarie Mules - BA (Hons) - Kā uri ā Papatūānuku: An investiagtion of pre-contact resource management in Te Wāi Pounamu (2007)
Rahbeka Palmer - MAOR 490 Dissertation (2007)
Monica Peters - MSc (2005)
Ngahuia Asher - PGDipArts (2005)
Abby Suszco - BA (Hons) - Māori Perspectives on the Foreshore and Seabed Debate: A Dunedin Case Study (2005)
Darryn Russell - MIndS - Full and Final Settlement: There is a fishhook in my soup (2004)
Khyla Russell - PhD (Advisor) (2001)
Rachaelle Barclay - MA (Co-supervisor) (2001)
Greg Lewis (Health Research Council summer post-graduate studentship) (2001)
Sarah Asher - PGDipArts - Ko Taku Whakapapa Tonu Te Here: Application of Traditional Kaitiakitanga in Contemporary Commercial Contexts (2001)

Research Grants

2002 - FRST grant with Professor Geoff Kearsley and Dr Anna Carr, $150,000 over three years. My contribution is an involvement in the conceptualization of the research and analysis of results in the area of Māori preferences for internal, NZ tourist destinations.
2003 - Marsden grant with Professors Tom Brooking, Eric Pawson and Peter Holland) Empires of Grass total Grant $603,000 over three years. My contribution is an involvement in the conceptualization of the research, analysis of results in the area of Pre-European vegetation of Canterbury and completion of a chapter in the book that will be published in 2008

Distinctions

2004: National Māori Academic Excellence Award (Arts and Humanities)

Major Research Outputs

Book Chapters

Williams, Jim . (2010). 'Towards a Model for Indigenous Research on Traditional Topics'. In Hokowhitu, B., Kermoal, N., Andersen, C., Reilly, M., Rewi, P. & Petersen, A. (eds.). Indigenous Identity and Resistance: Researching the Diversity of Knowledge. Dunedin: University of Otago Press.

Williams, Jim and Holland, P. (2010). 'Learning about The Environment in Early Colonial New Zealand.' In Brooking, Tom and Pawson, Eric (eds.). Seeds of Empire, London: I. B. Taurus.

Williams, Jim. (2007). ‘Declaration of ownership of Ruapuke o 1840’. In Strachan, Stuart & Tyler, Linda. (Eds.) Kā Taoka Hākena: Treasures from the Hocken Collection. Dunedin: Otago University Press

Williams, Jim. (2007). ‘Kai Tahu hāpu (sic) o 1848’. In Strachan, Stuart & Tyler, Linda. (Eds.) Kā Taoka Hākena: Treasures from the Hocken Collection. Dunedin: Otago University Press

Williams, Jim. (2007). ‘Southern Māori stories o c. 1920s’. In Strachan, Stuart & Tyler, Linda. (Eds.) Kā Taoka Hākena: Treasures from the Hocken Collection. Dunedin: Otago University Press

Williams, Jim. (2004). 'Ngā hekenga waka: Canoe migrations'. In T.M. Ka'ai, J.C. Moorfield, M.J.P. Reilly & S. Mosely. (eds.) Ki te Whaiao: An Introduction to Māori Culture and Society. Auckland: Pearson Education

Williams, Jim. (2004). 'Papa-tūā-nuku: Attitudes to land'. In T.M. Ka'ai, J.C. Moorfield, M.J.P. Reilly & S. Mosely. (eds.) Ki te Whaiao: An Introduction to Māori Culture and Society. Auckland: Pearson Education

Williams, Jim. (2004). 'Traditional Māori Images of Geographic Space'. In Kearsley, Geoff & Fitzharris, Blair (eds.) Glimpses of a Gaian World. School of Social Sciences, Otago University, Dunedin

Journal Articles

Williams, Jim. (2010). 'Mahika Kai: The Husbanding of Consumables by Māori in Pre-contact Te Waipounamu'. Journal of the Polynesian Society, 119(2), pp. 149-180.

Williams, Jim. (2006). 'Resource Management and Māori attitudes to water in Southern New Zealand' in New Zealand Geographer, (62), pp. 73-80.

Williams, Jim. (2002). 'Traditional Resource Management in Te Wai Pounamu - Some Kai Tahu Experience'. Pacific Ecologist, (2), pp. 19-24.

Williams, Jim. (2000). 'Would the real Tahu please stand up: Examining biases in Māori oral accounts.' Pohere Körero.

Williams, Jim. (1997). 'Mauri and the traditional Māori environmental perspective.' Environmental Perspectives, 14 (March/April).

Williams, Jim. (1997). 'Whakarongo e Te Rau.' Journal of the Polynesian Society, 106(4).

Keynote Address

Willias, Jim. (2010). Rocky Mountain Landscape and Memory Symposium, University of Wyoming, October

Book Reviews

Williams, Jim. (2010). 'Tāhuhu Kōrero: The Sayings of Taitokerau, by Merata Kawharu'. In The Journal of the Polynesian Society, 1119(3), pp 119-120.

Willias, Jim. (2010). 'Handbook of Polynesian Mythology, by R.D. Craig'. In The Journal of the Polynesian Society, 119 (4), pp 415-416.

Williams, Jim. (2008). 'Ngāi Tahu: A Migration History, by Rawiri Te Maire Tau & Atholl Anderson'. In New Zealand Journal of History, 42(2), pp. 223-225.

Williams, Jim. 'Ngā Pikitūroa o Ngāi Tahu, by Rawiri, Te Maire Tau'. In New Zealand Journal of History, 38(2), pp. 309-310.

Williams, Jim. (2004). 'Whenua: Managing our Resources, by Merata Kawharu (ed)'. In The Journal of the Polynesian Society, 112(4), pp. 420-421.

Williams, Jim. 'Te Whānau Moana, by McCully, Matiu & Margaret Mutu'. In The Journal of the Polynesian Society, 113(1), pp. 104-106.

Research Reports

Freeman, C, C Cheyne, N Ellery, P Ding, & J Williams. (2005). The Impact of Rising Property Prices on Coastal Settlement Communities.

Hoakanson, J, F Chapman & J Williams. (2005). Ethnographic Investigations at Camp Guernsey, Wyoming. Commissioned Research Report, Confidential to the Wyoming Army National Guard.

Forum Contribution

Williams, Jim. (2009). '"O ye of little faith": traditional knowledge and Western Science', in Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Vol. 39, No. 4, December, pp. 167-169.

Roa T, Beggs JR, Williams J, Moller H. (2009). "New Zealand's Performance Based Research Funding model undermines Maori research". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 39(4), pp. 233-238.