Research Interests

Postcolonial Feminist Theories, Visual Culture, Indigenous Feminisms, Violence, Historiography and the Pacific

Selected Publications

“If I Win I Might Tattoo My Face—Mike Tyson as Maori Cultural Artifact?” Indigenous Cultures, edited by Guillermo Delgado.  Santa Cruz: University of California Santa Cruz Press (under review; accepted for publication).

“A Queer Caste: Mixing Race and Sexuality in Colonial New Zealand.” Queer Indigenous Studies: Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics and Literature, edited by Qwo-Li Driskill, Chris Finley, Brian Joseph Gilley and Scott Lauria Morgensen.  Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2011.

“Exile: Maori and Lesbian.” Queer in New Zealand, edited by Lynne Alice.  Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, 2004.

“Criminal Sittings: Rape in the Colony, New Zealand, 1862.” Journal of Historical Sociology 24: 2 (2011): 186-208.

“Civilizing Images: Violence and The Visual Interpellation of Maori Women.”  Amerasia Journal, Russell C. Leong, Arnold Pan, Mary Kao and David Yoo  (eds.) University of California, Los Angeles

Awards

University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, UC Riverside, Department of Women’s Studies. Mentor: Piya Chatterjee, 2008-2010.
Nga Pae o te Maramatanga Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Auckland University, New Zealand, 2006.