Leonie Pihama

Leonie Pihama
FRSNZ
Born1962 (age 62–63)
Alma materUniversity of Auckland
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Auckland, University of Waikato
Theses
Doctoral advisorJudith Simon, Fiona Cram, Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Doctoral studentsDonna Campbell

Leonie Eileen Pihama FRSNZ (born 1962) is a New Zealand kaupapa Māori academic.

Career

Pihama was born in 1962.[1] She wrote her 1993 master's thesis at the University of Auckland with the title Tungia te ururua, kia tupu whakaritorito te tupu o te harakeke: a critical analysis of parents as first teachers.[2] She completed her PhD at the same institution in 2001 and her doctoral thesis had the title Tīhei mauri ora: honouring our voices: mana wahine as a kaupapa Māori: theoretical framework, and was supervised by Fiona Cram, Judith Simon and Linda Tuhiwai Smith.[3] She won a Fulbright-Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Scholar Award and is now a Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga principal investigator.[4] She rose to Associate Professor there,[5] before moving to the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand.[6] Notable students include Donna Campbell.[7]

Pihama served on the establishment board of Māori TV and then as a director, but quit after three years due to a conflict of interest involving a family member.[8]

In 2017, Pihama was ranked as one of the '100 Māori leaders' by Te Rau Matatini.[9] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2022.[10]

Publications

  • Pihama, Leonie, Fiona Cram, and Sheila Walker. "Creating methodological space: A literature review of Kaupapa Maori research." Canadian Journal of Native Education 26, no. 1 (2002): 30.
  • Pihama, Leonie, Kaapua Smith, Mereana Taki, and Jenny Lee. "A literature review on kaupapa Maori and Maori education pedagogy." Prepared for ITP New Zealand by The International Research Institute for Maori and Indigenous Education (IRI) (2004).
  • Johnston, Patricia, and Leonie Pihama. "What counts as difference and what differences count: Gender, race and the politics of difference." Irwin K, Ramsden I. Toi Wähine: The Worlds of Mäori Women. Penguin Books, Auckland (1995).
  • Pihama, Leonie. "Are films dangerous?: a Maori woman's perspective on 'The Piano'." Hecate 20, no. 2 (1994): 239.

Personal life

Pihama is of Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Māhanga and Ngā Māhanga ā Tairi descent.

References

  1. ^ "Pihama, Leonie". Library of Congress. Retrieved 15 May 2022.
  2. ^ Pihama, Leonie (1993). Tungia te ururua, kia tupu whakaritorito te tupu o te harakeke : a critical analysis of parents as first teachers (Masters thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland. hdl:2292/2966.
  3. ^ Pihama, Leonie (2001). Tīhei mauri ora : honouring our voices : mana wahine as a kaupapa Māori : theoretical framework (Doctoral thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland. hdl:2292/1119.
  4. ^ "Dr Leonie Pihama | Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga". Maramatanga.ac.nz. Retrieved 19 July 2014.
  5. ^ "Dr Leonie Pihama – The University of Auckland". Unidirectory.auckland.ac.nz. Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 19 July 2014.
  6. ^ "Leonie Pihama – Te Kotahi Research Institute (TKRI): Māori Research Institute for Innovation, Well-being and Inspiration : University of Waikato". www.waikato.ac.nz.
  7. ^ Campbell, Donna (2019). Ngā kura a Hineteiwaiwa: The embodiment of Mana Wahine in Māori fibre Arts (Doctoral thesis). Waikato Research Commons, University of Waikato. hdl:10289/12583.
  8. ^ "Maori Television: Pihama quits | The National Business Review". www.nbr.co.nz. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017.
  9. ^ "Associate Professor Leonie Pihama". 100 Maori Leaders. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
  10. ^ "View our fellows". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 29 August 2023.


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