Joanna Kidman

Joanna Kidman is a New Zealand sociology academic, are Māori, of Ngāti Maniapoto and Ngāti Raukawa descent and as of 2019 is a full professor at Victoria University of Wellington.
Academic career.
After a 2001 PhD titled " 'Travelling in the present historic : a case study of socialisation in an academic community in New Zealand' " at the Australian National University, Kidman moved to Victoria University of Wellington, rising to full professor.