Ngapare Hopa

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Hopa in 2008

Ngapare Kaihina Hopa MNZM is a Māori academic of Waikato Tainui descent.

Early life and education[]

Hopa attended Gordonton School in Gordonton.[1] Later she moved to Auckland to attend Queen Victoria School and Epsom Girls’ Grammar.[1]

Hopa later became the first Māori woman to complete a D.Phil degree from the University of Oxford.[1][2][3]

Academic career[]

Hopa participated as a researcher at the University of Waikato in completing the research that informed the .

Hopa headed the Māori Studies department at the University of Auckland.[4][5]

Service[]

Beginning in 1989, while she was a senior research fellow at Waikato, Hopa became a member of the Waitangi Tribunal. She retired from the tribunal in 1993.[6]

Awards and honours[]

In the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours, Hopa was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to Māori.[7]

In 2011 Hopa was recognised for her contribution to Māori arts by Creative New Zealand, receiving its Te Waka Toi awards.[8][9]

Hopa's collaboration with Jennifer Curnow and Jane McRae, Rere Atu, Taku Manu! Discovering History Language & Politics in the Maori-Language Newspapers was included as part of the Te Takarangi Significant Maori non-fiction publications in 2017.[10] The list is a collaboration between and The Royal Society of New Zealand to celebrate Maori thinkers, writers, and authors since the foundation of the Royal Society.[11] In 2017, Hopa was also selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's "150 women in 150 words", celebrating women's contributions to knowledge in New Zealand.[12]

Bibliography[]

  • Curnow, J., N. K. Hopa and J. McRae (Eds). (2002). Rere Atu, Taku Manu! Discovering History, Language & Politics in the Maori-Language Newspapers,. Auckland: Auckland University Press. ISBN 978-1-86940-279-2.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)[13]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Oxford's first Maori Woman PhD remembers Gordonton School". . 10 October 2016. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  2. ^ K., Hopa, N. (1977). "Urban Maori Sodalities a study in social change". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ^ "Te Ahi Kaa 2 o Whiringa a rangi (October) 2011". Radio New Zealand. 30 September 2011. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  4. ^ Pettersen, Morten Kjeldseth (2007). Kapa Haka: Traditional Maori Performing Arts in Contemporary Settings (PDF) (Masters Thesis). Oslo: University of Oslo.
  5. ^ "APPOINTMENTS TO CREATIVE NEW ZEALAND". The Beehive. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  6. ^ "Retirement" (PDF). Te Manutukutuku (24–25): 2. October–December 1993.
  7. ^ "Queen's Birthday honours list 2008". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 2 June 2008. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  8. ^ "Te Ahi Kaa 2 o Whiringa a rangi (October) 2011". Radio New Zealand. 30 September 2011. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  9. ^ "Te Waka Toi Awards 2011". . 5 September 2011. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  10. ^ "Royal Society Te Apārangi - Te Takarangi: Celebrating Māori publications". royalsociety.org.nz. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  11. ^ "Royal Society Te Apārangi - About Te Takarangi: Celebrating Māori publications with Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga". royalsociety.org.nz. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  12. ^ "Ngāpare Hopa". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  13. ^ Curnow, J., N. K. Hopa and J. McRae (Eds). (2002). Rere Atu, Taku Manu! Discovering History, Language & Politics in the Maori-Language Newspapers,. Auckland: Auckland University Press. ISBN 978-1-86940-279-2.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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