Ngapare Hopa

Ngapare Kaihina Hopa MNZM is a Māori academic of Waikato Tainui descent.

Hopa in 2008

Early life and education

Hopa attended Gordonton School in Gordonton.[1] Later she moved to Auckland to attend Queen Victoria School and Epsom Girls’ Grammar.[1]

Hopa later became the first Māori woman to complete a D.Phil degree from the University of Oxford.[1][2][3]

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.[4][5]

Service

Beginning in 1989, while she was a senior research fellow at Waikato, Hopa became a member of the Waitangi Tribunal. She retired from the tribunal in 1993.[6]

Awards and honours

In the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours, Hopa was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to Māori.[7]

In 2011 Hopa was recognised for her contribution to Māori arts by Creative New Zealand, receiving its Te Waka Toi awards.[8][9]

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.[10] 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.[11] In 2017, Hopa was also selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's "150 women in 150 words", celebrating women's contributions to knowledge in New Zealand.[12]

Bibliography
  • Curnow, J., N. K. Hopa and J. McRae (Eds). (2002). Rere Atu, Taku Manu! Discovering History, Language & Politics in the Maori-Language Newspapers. Auckland: Auckland University Press. ISBN 978-1-86940-279-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)[13]

References
  1. "Oxford's first Maori Woman PhD remembers Gordonton School". Number 8 Network. 10 October 2016. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  2. K., Hopa, N. (1977). Urban Maori Sodalities a study in social change (D.Phil). University of Oxford.{{cite thesis}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. "Te Ahi Kaa 2 o Whiringa a rangi (October) 2011". Radio New Zealand. 30 September 2011. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  4. Pettersen, Morten Kjeldseth (2007). Kapa Haka: Traditional Maori Performing Arts in Contemporary Settings (PDF) (Masters Thesis). Oslo: University of Oslo.
  5. "APPOINTMENTS TO CREATIVE NEW ZEALAND". The Beehive. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  6. "Retirement" (PDF). Te Manutukutuku (24–25): 2. October–December 1993.
  7. "Queen's Birthday honours list 2008". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 2 June 2008. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  8. "Te Ahi Kaa 2 o Whiringa a rangi (October) 2011". Radio New Zealand. 30 September 2011. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  9. "Te Waka Toi Awards 2011". The Big Idea. 5 September 2011. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  10. "Royal Society Te Apārangi - Te Takarangi: Celebrating Māori publications". royalsociety.org.nz. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  11. "Royal Society Te Apārangi - About Te Takarangi: Celebrating Māori publications with Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga". royalsociety.org.nz. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  12. "Ngāpare Hopa". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  13. Curnow, J., N. K. Hopa and J. McRae (Eds). (2002). Rere Atu, Taku Manu! Discovering History, Language & Politics in the Maori-Language Newspapers. Auckland: Auckland University Press. ISBN 978-1-86940-279-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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