Brendan Hokowhitu Explained
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]
Academic career
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
- 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.
Notes and References
- Web site: Brendan Hokowhitu – Staff Profiles: University of Waikato. www.waikato.ac.nz.
- Hokowhitu . Brendan . 2002 . Doctoral thesis . Te mana Māori : Te tatari i nga korero parau . OUR Archive, University of Otago . 10523/133 .
- Web site: Waikato University to host Native American and Indigenous Studies conference. Stuff. 9 June 2019.
- Web site: Professor Brendan Hokowhitu.
- Web site: Professor takes up role in Waikato. 18 January 2016. www.nzherald.co.nz.
- Web site: Ka muri, ki mua: The vital role of a critical academic voice. Brendan. Hokowhitu. 30 March 2018.
- Web site: Brendan Hokowhitu . www.komako.org.nz.
- Web site: Researchers and scholars at the top of their fields elected as Fellows . 21 November 2019 . Royal Society Te Apārangi . 27 November 2019.
