Committee on the Status of Women presents Linda Tuhiwai Smith
January 15, 2021
The UAF Committee on the Status of Women invites the UAF community to a live presentation
by Linda Tuhiwai Smith on Thursday, Jan. 28, from noon-1 p.m. The presentation will
be livestreamed at media.uaf.edu. The presentation will include a talk by Smith followed by a Q&A. Please submit your questions in advance or during the talk, and they will be answered as time permits.
Following the presentation, UAF women faculty, postdocs and graduate students are
invited to join a Zoom gathering and dialogue at 1 p.m. RSVP for the gathering by Jan. 22.
Linda Tuhiwai Smith is professor of Māori and Indigenous studies at the University
of Waikato. She is Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Porou and Tuhourangi. Smith has led many developments
in Māori and Indigenous research, establishing research centres, building international
networks and mentoring researchers. She is known for her work on decolonizing and
Indigenous methodologies and Kaupapa Māori research.
Smith was joint founding director of Ngā Pae o Te Māramatanga, the Māori Centre of
Research Excellence, and is a former president of the New Zealand Association of Research
in Education. Smith is a member of the Waitangi Tribunal. She has served on a number
of advisory and governance boards in the public sector and for community organizations.
She has received a number of awards, including a New Zealand honor as Companion to
the New Zealand Order of Merit. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand
and of the American Education Research Association. In 2017 she received the Prime
Minister’s Lifetime Achievement Award in Education. In 2018 she received an honorary
doctorate of laws from the University of Winnipeg, Canada, and the Te Puawaitanga
Research Excellence award, the highest honor from the Royal Society of New Zealand
for research in Māori and Indigenous knowledge. Smith is a daughter, mother and grandmother.
For more information contact Meryem Udden at 474-7964 or maudden@alaska.edu.