Staff Members

Tahu Kukutai

Role: Senior Research Fellow Qualifications: BA (Hons) MSocSci Waikato, MA PhD Stanford Email: tahuk@waikato.ac.nz Location: K3.25 Contact: +64 7 838 4162

Research Interests:

Tahu Kukutai (Waikato, Ngāti Maniapoto, Te Aupōuri) is a Senior Research Fellow at the Population Studies Centre, University of Waikato. She is a graduate of Stanford University (Sociology) and the University of Waikato (History, Demography) and a former Fulbright recipient. Tahu’s research focuses on the nexus of ethnic/racial identification and classification and inequality. Most of her research has examined these processes in relation to indigenous populations, and Māori in particular. She is an associate investigator on two FRST-funded research programmes examining the relationships between education, employment and gender in New Zealand; and the dynamics of Māori transnationalism.

Tahu serves on the Māori Statistics Advisory Committee to the Government Statistician, the Population Association of New Zealand Council, and He Waka Tāngata, a group of emerging leaders in the social sciences sponsored by the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology. She is also an associate editor of the International Indigenous Policy Journal.

Research Publications:

You may like to view publications from 1997 onwards for Tahu Kukutai