Khyla J. Russell is a New Zealand academic. She was appointed full professor at
Otago Polytechnic on 1 February 2012
and emeritus professor at the same institution in March 2016.
Academic career
Russell has a BA from
Massey University
Massey University ( mi, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa) is a university based in Palmerston North, New Zealand, with significant campuses in Albany and Wellington. Massey University has approximately 30,883 students, 13,796 of whom are extramural or ...
and graduated in 2001 from the
University of Otago with a PhD in Anthropology, ''Landscape: perceptions of Kai Tahu I Mua, Āianei, Ā Muri Ake''.
She was appointed Kaitohutohu (Deputy Chief Executive Māori Development) at Otago Polytechnic in 2005 and in 2012 she became only the second person to be named full professor of that institution, the first being
Leoni Schmidt.
In 2016 she was the first academic to be named an emeritus professor there.
Russell was selected as one of ten Māori women leaders interviewed for the 2011 New Zealand Families Commission report, ''Mātiro whakamua: Looking over the horizon: Interviews with 10 Māori leaders''.
Public outreach
Russell gave a keynote address in September 2020 at a symposium on the ways art reflects how people learn to live and act in the changing environment.
Personal life
Russell is
Māori
Māori or Maori can refer to:
Relating to the Māori people
* Māori people of New Zealand, or members of that group
* Māori language, the language of the Māori people of New Zealand
* Māori culture
* Cook Islanders, the Māori people of the C ...
of
Kāi Tahu,
Kāti Māmoe,
Waitaha, Rapuwai descent.
She received her
tā moko
' is the permanent marking or "tattoo" as traditionally practised by Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand. It is one of the five main Polynesian tattoo styles (the other four are Marquesan, Samoan, Tahitian and Hawaiian).
(tattoois ...
, Māori tattoo in 2001.
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Selected works
Book
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Journal articles
* Hudson, M. & Russell, K. (2009). "The Treaty of Waitangi and Research Ethics in Aotearoa." ''Journal of Bioethical Inquiry'', Vol. 6., No. 1. 61–68.
* Russell, K. (2006). "Landscape: Perceptions of Kai Tahu I mua, aianei, a muri ake." ''Spasifika'', Issue 12. 72–73.
* Russell, K. (2005). "Movements. Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue," . 04: ''Movement'', June. 11–12.
References
External links
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Massey University alumni
University of Otago alumni
Academic staff of Otago Polytechnic
New Zealand anthropologists
New Zealand women anthropologists
Ngāi Tahu people
Kāti Māmoe people
Waitaha (South Island iwi)
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