Rate My Professor Tracey McIntosh

Tracey Kathleen Dorothy McIntosh MNZM, of Ngāi Tūhoe descent, is Professor of Indigenous Studies and Co-Head of Te Wānanga o Waipapa (School of Māori Studies and Pacific Studies) at the University of Auckland. She holds a PhD in Sociology awarded in 2002 by the University of Auckland for her thesis titled Death in the Margins: Riding the Periphery, along with an MA (Hons) and BA in Sociology from the same institution. Prior to her current roles, McIntosh served as Head of the Sociology Department at the University of Auckland and lectured for three years at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji. Her research specializations include Indigenous studies, sociology, criminology, processes of marginalisation, incarceration of Māori and Indigenous peoples, poverty, inequality, social justice, and state institutions.

McIntosh has held appointments including membership on the New Zealand Government’s Welfare Expert Advisory Group and the Safe and Effective Justice Advisory Group in 2018. She is one of two editors of the journal AlterNative and has contributed to government inquiries, including providing evidence to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care. In 2017 she received the Te Rangi Hiroa Medal from the Royal Society Te Apārangi and was selected for the society’s 150 women in 150 words recognition. In the 2019 New Year Honours she was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to education and social science. Key publications include the co-edited volume Māori and Social Issues (Huia Publishers, 2011) and chapters such as “Māori identities: Fixed, fluid, forced” in New Zealand Identities: Departures and Destinations (2005). Her work has influenced academic discourse on sociocultural cohesion, diversity, and alternatives to traditional justice systems.

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