Tahu Kukutai
Tahu Hera Kukutai | |
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At 2025 Research Honours Aotearoa | |
| Born | 1971 (age 54–55) |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Sociology |
| Institutions | University of Waikato |
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Tahu Hera Kukutai FRSNZ (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.