Tracey McIntosh

Tracey Kathleen Dorothy McIntosh MNZM is a New Zealand sociology and criminology academic. She is of Māori descent (Ngāi Tūhoe) and is currently a Professor of Indigenous Studies and Co-Head of Te Wānanga o Waipapa at the University of Auckland.

Tracey McIntosh MNZM
McIntosh in 2019
Alma mater	University of Auckland
Scientific career
Fields	Sociology
Institutions	University of Auckland
Thesis	Death in the Margins: Riding the Periphery  (2002)

Academic career

After a 2002 PhD titled Death in the Margins: Riding the Periphery at the University of Auckland,^[1] she rose to full professor at the same institution.^[2] McIntosh is one of two editors of AlterNative.^[3]

In 2017, she won the Te Rangi Hiroa Medal.^[4][5][6][7] The same year McIntosh was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's "150 women in 150 words", celebrating the contributions of women to knowledge in New Zealand.^[8]

In 2018, McIntosh was appointed to the New Zealand Government's Welfare Expert Advisory Group and the Safe and Effective Justice Advisory Group.^[9][10]

In the 2019 New Year Honours, McIntosh was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to education and social science.^[11]

As of October 2022 McIntosh is Head of Te Wānanga o Waipapa at the University of Auckland where her research has included how to stop the intergenerational transfer of inequality.^[2][8][12]

Selected works

• McIntosh, Tracey. "Māori identities: Fixed, fluid, forced." New Zealand Identities: Departures and Destinations (2005): 38–51.
• Liu, James H., Tim McCreanor, Tracey McIntosh, and Teresia Teaiwa. "Introduction: Constructing New Zealand Identities." New Zealand Identities: Departures and Destinations (2005): 11–20.
• McIntosh, Tracey, and Malcolm Mulholland. Maori and Social Issues. Huia Publishers, 2011.
• McIntosh, Tracey. "Hibiscus in the flax bush: The Maori-Pacific island interface." Tangata O Te Moana Nui: The Evolving Identities of Pacific Peoples in Aotearoa/New Zealand (2001): 141–159.
• McIntosh, Tracey (2006). "Theorising Marginality and the Processes of Marginalisation". AlterNative. 2: 44–65. doi:10.1177/117718010600200103. S2CID 142449770.