Tahu Kukutai
Tahu Hera Kukutai (born 1971) is a New Zealand sociology academic; she is Māori, of Ngāti Tīpā, Ngāti Mahanga, Ngāti Kinohaku, Ngāti Ngawaero and Te Aupōuri descent, and as of 2019 is a full professor at the University of Waikato. In 2022 Kukutai was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi. Academic career. After a 2010 PhD titled " 'The thin brown line: re-indigenizing inequality in Aotearoa New Zealand " at Stanford University, Kukutai moved to the University of Waikato, rising to full professor. In 2022 Kukutai was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi . The society said "She has undertaken a broad range of applied population research, from iwi projections and demographic profiling, to survey-based analysis of Māori identity and whānau structure. She has published widely on Māori demography and ethnic identity and is recognised internationally for her work on state practices of ethnic and racial classification and census taking."