Ngapare Kaihina Hopa is a Māori academic of
Waikato Tainui descent.
Early life and education
Hopa attended Gordonton School in Gordonton.
Later she moved to
Auckland to attend Queen Victoria School and Epsom Girls’ Grammar.
Hopa later became the first Māori woman to complete a
D.Phil degree from the
University of Oxford.
Academic career
Hopa participated as a researcher at the
University of Waikato in completing the research that informed the
Waikato Raupatu claim.
Hopa headed the Māori Studies department at the
University of Auckland.
Service
Beginning in 1989, while she was a senior research fellow at Waikato, Hopa became a member of the
Waitangi Tribunal
The Waitangi Tribunal (Māori: ''Te Rōpū Whakamana i te Tiriti o Waitangi'') is a New Zealand permanent commission of inquiry established under the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975. It is charged with investigating and making recommendations on cla ...
. She retired from the tribunal in 1993.
Awards and honours
In the
2008 Queen's Birthday Honours
The Queen's Birthday Honours 2008 were appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by citizens of those countries. The Birthday Honours are awarded as part of the Queen's Of ...
, Hopa was appointed a
Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to Māori.
In 2011 Hopa was recognised for her contribution to Māori arts by Creative New Zealand, receiving its Te Waka Toi awards.
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. The list is a collaboration between
Nga Pae o Te Maramatanga and
The Royal Society of New Zealand to celebrate Maori thinkers, writers, and authors since the foundation of the Royal Society. In 2017, Hopa was also selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's "
150 women in 150 words
Fifteen or 15 may refer to:
*15 (number), the natural number following 14 and preceding 16
*one of the years 15 BC, AD 15, 1915, 2015
Music
*Fifteen (band), a punk rock band
Albums
* ''15'' (Buckcherry album), 2005
* ''15'' (Ani Lorak alb ...
", celebrating women's contributions to knowledge in New Zealand.
Bibliography
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References
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New Zealand Māori academics
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
New Zealand Māori women academics
Academic staff of the University of Auckland
People educated at Epsom Girls' Grammar School
Waikato Tainui people