Dean
- Professor Poia Rewi (On Study Leave until 24 December, 2018)
Language revitalisation; Māori culture; Māori performing arts - Associate Professor Lachy Paterson (Acting Dean, until 24 December, 2018)
Māori history (social, cultural, political); Te reo Māori; Niupepa Māori; Race relations; Indigenous textual cultures; Māori print culture
Academic Staff
- Dr Lyn Carter
Social impact of climate change; Landscape & identity; Environmental literacy; Maori & indigenous development - Dr Alumita Durutalo
Pacific Islands politics; Indigenous leadership; Pacific Islands languages, culture & identity - Craig Hall
Reo rūmaki; Second language acquisition; Silent way of learning - Dr Telesia Kalavite, Lecturer
Pacific Islands Studies; Pacific education; Pacific religion and culture; Indigenous development; Tongan language and translation; Climate change and sustainable development; Social justice
Email telesia.kalavite@otago.ac.nz
Phone +64 3 479 3974 - Dr Gianna Leoni, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Te reo Māori; Language normalisation; Sociolinguistics; Identify formation
Email gianna.leoni@otago.ac.nz
Phone +64 3 479 8624 - Professor Merata Kawharu (Adjunct Research Professor)
Māori development; Indigenous & Māori entrepreneurship; Leadership; World heritage; Māori cultural heritage - Erica Newman
Adoption of children; Whāngai; Cross-cultural adoption; Inter-country adoption; Identity; Kinship; Representation - Dr Karyn Paringatai
Māori performing arts; Māori language acquisition; Socio-cultural effects of urbanisation; Māori identity; Māori pedagogies; Second language acquisition - Associate Professor Lachy Paterson
Māori history (social, cultural, political); Te reo Māori; Niupepa Māori; Race relations; Indigenous textual cultures; Māori print culture - Megan Potiki
Kāi Tahu history & archives; Kāi Tahu mōteatea; Language loss - Tangiwai Rewi
Māori education; Māori pedagogies; Te reo me ngā tikanga Māori; Intergenerational knowledge transmission - Professor Michael P.J. Reilly
Polynesian traditional histories; Forms & content of Indigenous history; Collectors of Polynesian traditions - Dr Michelle Schaaf
Cultural studies; Pacific studies; Physical cultural studies; Body studies; Gender studies; Education; Race; Sports studies; Diaspora & identity - Dr Paerau Warbrick
Treaty of Waitangi; Waitangi Tribunal; Māori Land Court; Māori land; Law; New Zealand history; Māori history; Whānau history; Autobiography & autoethnography - Dr Jim Williams
Ngāi Tahu; Māori research methodologies; Māori natural resource management; Pre-contact history; Oral traditions
