Leonie Pihama

Leonie Eileen Pihama is a New Zealand Kaupapa Māori academic, of Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Māhanga and Ngā Māhanga ā Tairi descent.

Pihama won a Fulbright-Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Scholar Award and is now a Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga principal investigator. She did a PhD at the University of Auckland and rose to Associate Professor there, before moving to the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand.

Pihama served on the establishment board of Māori TV and then as a director, but quit after three years due to a conflict of interest involving a family member.

In 2017,Pihama was ranked as one of the '100 Māori leaders' by Te Rau Matatini.

• Pihama, Leonie, Fiona Cram, and Sheila Walker. "Creating methodological space: A literature review of Kaupapa Maori research." Canadian Journal of Native Education 26, no. 1 (2002): 30.
• Pihama, Leonie. "Tīhei mauri ora: honouring our voices: mana wahine as a kaupapa Māori: theoretical framework." PhD thesis., ResearchSpace@ Auckland, 2001.
• Pihama, Leonie. "Tungia te ururua, kia tupu whakaritorito te tupu o te harakeke: A critical analysis of parents as first teachers." Masters thesis, ResearchSpace@ Auckland, 1993.
• Pihama, Leonie, Kaapua Smith, Mereana Taki, and Jenny Lee. "A literature review on kaupapa Maori and Maori education pedagogy." Prepared for ITP New Zealand by The International Research Institute for Maori and Indigenous Education (IRI) (2004).
• Johnston, Patricia, and Leonie Pihama. "What counts as difference and what differences count: Gender, race and the politics of difference." Irwin K, Ramsden I. Toi Wähine: The Worlds of Mäori Women. Penguin Books, Auckland (1995).
• Pihama, Leonie. "Are films dangerous?: a Maori woman's perspective on 'The Piano'." Hecate 20, no. 2 (1994): 239.