

Linda has been part of the movement that established Māori schools known as Kura Kaupapa Māori and tribal institutions known as Wānanga. Linda is renowned for her work in Indigenous Māori education, Decolonising Methodologies and Kaupapa Māori. She is a researcher, mentor, supervisor, writer and educator. Linda Tuhiwai Smith is currently a Distinguished Professor at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi.

Linda Tuhiwai Smith (Māori) will kick off the new Oxford-Penn-Toronto international doctoral cluster in the environmental humanities with a talk, "Decolonizing the Way We Know the World, Ourselves, and Other Entities." Join us for a talk that draws on Māori and Indigenous ideas about the “not so special human being” and ways to live in relation to other entities, and talk about decolonising the ways in which the West has come to see, define and know the world.
