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.
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.