Brendan J. Hokowhitu is a New Zealand academic who is of Māori, Ngāti Pūkenga descent and as of 2019 is a full professor at the University of Waikato.[1]

Brendan Hokowhitu
Hokowhitu in 2017
Born
Brendan J. Hokowhitu

Ōpōtiki, New Zealand
Alma materUniversity of Otago
Scientific career
FieldsIndigenous studies
InstitutionsUniversity of Otago, University of Alberta in Edmonton, University of Waikato
Thesis

Academic career

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After a 2001 PhD titled 'Te mana Māori : Te tātari i ngā kōrero parau' at the University of Otago,[2] Hokowhitu moved to the University of Alberta in Edmonton and then to the University of Waikato, rising to full professor.[1][3][4][5][6][7]

In 2019, Hokowhitu was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.[8]

Selected works

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  • Hokowhitu, Brendan. "Tackling Maori masculinity: A colonial genealogy of savagery and sport." The Contemporary Pacific 16, no. 2 (2004): 259–284.
  • Jackson, Steven J., and Brendan Hokowhitu. "Sport, tribes, and technology: The New Zealand All Blacks haka and the politics of identity." Journal of Sport and Social Issues 26, no. 2 (2002): 125–139.
  • Hokowhitu, Brendan. "'Physical beings': Stereotypes, sport and the'physical education'of New Zealand Māori." Culture, Sport, Society 6, no. 2-3 (2003): 192–218.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Brendan Hokowhitu – Staff Profiles: University of Waikato". www.waikato.ac.nz.
  2. ^ Hokowhitu, Brendan (2002). Te mana Māori : Te tatari i nga korero parau (Doctoral thesis). OUR Archive, University of Otago. hdl:10523/133.
  3. ^ "Waikato University to host Native American and Indigenous Studies conference". Stuff. 9 June 2019.
  4. ^ "Professor Brendan Hokowhitu".
  5. ^ "Professor takes up role in Waikato". 18 January 2016 – via www.nzherald.co.nz.
  6. ^ Hokowhitu, Brendan (30 March 2018). "Ka muri, ki mua: The vital role of a critical academic voice".
  7. ^ "Brendan Hokowhitu". www.komako.org.nz.
  8. ^ "Researchers and scholars at the top of their fields elected as Fellows". Royal Society Te Apārangi. 21 November 2019. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
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