Elizabeth McKinley


Elizabeth Ann McKinley is a New Zealand academic, is Māori of Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa and Ngāi Tahu descent, and as of 2019 is a full professor at the University of Melbourne.

Academic career

After a 2003 PhD titled Brown bodies, white coats : postcolonialism, Māori women and science at the University of Waikato, McKinley moved to the University of Auckland, rising to full professor and moving to the University of Melbourne.
In the 2015 Queen's Birthday Honours, McKinley was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to education and Māori.

Selected works