Merata Kawharu Author

Merata Kawharu (Ngati Whatua, Ngapuhi) is the director of research at the James Henare Maori Research Centre at the University of Auckland. A former Rhodes Scholar, she is a graduate in anthropology and Māori studies from the University of Auckland and has a DPhil from Oxford in social anthropology. Kawharu is a member of the New Zealand Geographic Board Nga Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa. She is the editor of Whenua: Managing Our Resources (Reed, 2002), a finalist in the 2003 Montana Book Awards, and Tahuhu Korero: The Sayings of Taitokerau (Auckland University Press, 2008), which won the Te Reo Maori category at the Nga Kupu Ora Book Awards in 2009.