Prior to writing full-time Hayley spent 30 years in academia, first as a student, then as a researcher, and finally as a teacher. She holds a PhD (Cultural Foundations of Education) and Certificate of Advanced Study (Women's & Gender Studies) from Syracuse University (New York) where she wrote a doctoral thesis on the colonial context of sexual violence and trauma experienced by Māori whānau and the connections to raupatu (land confiscation) in Tauranga Moana. She holds Masters and Bachelors degrees in Psychology from the University of Waikato (Aotearoa/New Zealand), and a Certificate in Māori Language (Poupou Huia Te Reo) from Te Wānanga o Raukawa (Aotearoa/New Zealand).
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Between her masters and doctoral qualifications Hayley spent 15 years as a researcher, most of this embedded within academic institutions. In her work as a program evaluator and coordinator she managed research and scholarly projects for a variety of clients/funders to include: US Department of Education, NYSED, Mellon Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Ministry of Health, Te Rūnanga o Kirikiriroa, Hamilton Safer Cities/Hamilton Police, Foundation for Research, Science, & Technology, Alcohol Advisory Council, Children, Young Persons, & Their Families Agency, Health Funding Authority, and Te Puni Kōkiri/Ministry of Māori Development.
Program Coordinator, Democratizing Knowledge Project, College of Arts & Sciences, Syracuse University, 2010-2013, 2016-2018.
Research Assistant, Holocaust & Genocide Project, School of Education, Syracuse University, 2009-2010.
Program Evaluation Research Coordinator, Office of Professional Research & Development, University College, Syracuse University, 2002-2009.
Program Evaluation Research Assistant, Office of Professional Development, School of Education, Syracuse University, 2001-2002.
Program Evaluator, Evaluation Associates, Auckland, 1998-2000
Program Evaluator, Kereru Kawe o te Karere: Indigenous Youth & Alcohol Project, Whariki: Alcohol & Public Health Research Unit, University of Auckland (New Zealand), 1996-2000.
Contract Program Evaluator/Researcher, various projects, School of Māori & Pacific Development/School of Social Science, University of Waikato (New Zealand), 1996-2000.
teaching
Hayley also spent more than a decade teaching within tertiary education, both in New York and Aotearoa. Until 2024 she was a teaching fellow for the Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies at the University of Waikato where she taught Māori and indigenous research methods and decolonial theory to graduates; and an adjunct professor in Native American & Indigenous Studies at Syracuse University where she taught indigenous women’s lives. She has previously taught at Colgate University (Educational Studies), Ithaca College (Sociology, Women's & Gender Studies), and Syracuse University (Women’s & Gender Studies, Renee Crown Honors Program, Cultural Foundations of Education). She most recently taught beginners te reo Māori for Learn Māori Abroad.
University of Waikato: Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies (2019-2023)
MAORI570: Te Mahi Rangahau: Māori, Pacific & Indigenous Research Methods & Issues
MAORI571: Decolonising Theory & Indigenous Studies
MAORI518: Māori, Indigeneity and Criminal Justice
Syracuse University (New York): Native American and Indigenous Studies (2017-2022)
NAT300: Indigenous Women’s Lives: Culture, Colonization, Resistance*
NAT105: Introduction to Native American & Indigenous Studies
*cross-listed with Women’s and Gender Studies
Syracuse University (New York): Women’s & Gender Studies, Cultural Foundations of Education, Renee Crown Honors Program (2010-2016)
WGS101: Introduction to Women’s & Gender Studies
CFE776: Gender, Culture, and Education
HNR210: Introduction to Political Culture & Practice
Ithaca College (New York): Women’s and Gender Studies, Sociology (2010-11, 2015-16)
WGS240 Indigenous Women’s Lives: Culture, Colonization, Resistance
WGS101: Introduction to Women’s Studies: Global Perspectives
SOC135: Contemporary Global Issues
Colgate University (New York): School of Education (2016-17)
EDU101: The American School
EDU303: Gender, Education & International Development
University of Waikato: Psychology Department (1996-1998)
PSYCH321: Violence in New Zealand (TA)
PSYCH311: Community Psychology (TA)
PSYCH309: Psychology & Women (TA)
fellowships and grants
Hayley is a past recipient of the New Zealand Psychological Society James Ritchie Fellowship for Contributions to the Development of Bi-Cultural Research, Syracuse University School of Education Creative Research Grant, New Zealand Health Research Council Postgraduate Fellowship (Te Atawhai o Te Ao Independent Research Unit for Environment & Health – He Kokonga Whare program), Ithaca College Dissertation Diversity Fellowship (Women's & Gender Studies), and the Bringing Theory to Practice (Association of American Colleges & Universities) Campus Dialogue Grant.
Campus Dialogue Grant, Bringing Theory to Practice, 2017-18.
Dissertation Diversity Fellow, Women’s & Gender Studies at Ithaca College, 2015-16.
New Zealand Health Research Council Postgraduate Fellow, He Kokonga Whare: Māori Intergenerational Trauma and Healing Grant for Te Atawhai o Te Ao Independent Maori Research Unit for Environment & Health, Aotearoa/New Zealand, 2012-14.
Graduate Travel Grant, School of Education, Syracuse University, 2013, 2015.
Graduate Travel Grant, Graduate Student Association (GSO), Syracuse University, 2013, 2015.
Conference Scholarship, National Women’s Studies Association, 2012.
Creative Research Grant, School of Education, Syracuse University, 2012.
James Ritchie Fellowship for contributions to the Development of Bi-Cultural Research, New Zealand Psychological Society, Aotearoa/ New Zealand, 1998.
kōrero in academia
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Decolonizing Rape & An Indigenous Response To #metoo Plenary II: Sexual Violence and Racialized Bodies: Re/Centering Creative Practices of Representation and Resistance | Race Sex Power 2018 Conference | April 2018
ELMIRA, NEW YORK
Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women Indigenous Peoples Day Panel | Elmira College | October 2018
Writing Our Lives On The Land Elmira College Empowering Relationships Project Workshop | September 2017
KIRIKIRIROA, AOTEAROA
What is Indigenous Studies? University of Waikato, ‘Introduction to Māori, Pacific & Indigenous Studies’ Guest Speaker, Faculty of Māori & Indigenous Studies (w. Nepia Mahuika, Hineitimoana Greensill) | July 2022
Sexual Violence & Whānau Restoration in Aotearoa: Exploring Mātauranga-based Approaches through Pūrākau He Manawa Whenua Indigenous Research Conference (w. Rawiri Waretini-Karena, Takirirangi Smith) | July 2013
HONOLULU, HAWAI’I
Our Love on The Land: Māori Intimate Economy in Scarcity Times Native American & Indigenous Studies Association‘Indigenous Economies of Abundance: Art Grown through Land-Based Activism in the Pacific’ Panel (w. Candace Fujikane, Brandy Nālani McDougall, ku’ualoha manawanui) | May 2016
Mātauranga Maori: Māori Knowledges Taukaea Maori Symposium, UH Mānoa Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies | April 2013
ITHACA, NEW YORK
Of Land & Bodies: Gendering Colonization, Decolonizing the Indigenous Imagination Ithaca College Native Heritage Month Keynote | November 2016
Deconstructing ‘Whale Rider’ Ithaca College Center for Study of Culture, Race, & Ethnicity ‘Watching Race in U.S Media’ Guest | March 2016
Sing Our Rivers Red: Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women Cornell University Indigenous Graduate Student Association Panel (w. Lisa Kahaleole Hall) | November 2015
Mana Wahine Māori: Indigenous/Māori Feminism Cornell University American Indian & Indigenous Studies Program ‘Indigenous Women’s Experiences’ Guest | October 2011
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA
Indigenous Women’s Ways of Knowing: Critical Interruptions National Women’s Studies Association ‘Democratizing Knowledge: Feminists of Color Engage Syracuse University’ (w. Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Linda Carty, T. Jackie Cuevas, Beverly Guy-Sheftall) | November 2012
ROCHESTER, NEW YORK
From Trauma & Grief to Resilience & Recovery Keynote, Monroe Community College Diversity Conference | October 2019
SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO
Transnational Challenges to Global Empire: Cultivating Ethical Feminist Praxis National Women’s Studies Association (w. Chandra Mohanty, Amina Mama, Linda Carty, Suzy J. Zepeda, Carol Fadda-Conrey) | November 2014
Democratizing Knowledge, Collaborative Scholarship, and Anti-Colonial Struggles National Women’s Studies Association (w. Dana Olwan, Carol Fadda-Conrey, Linda Carty, Chandra Mohanty) | November 2014
STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Decolonizing Research Through Storywork: Tales From Aotearoa/New Zealand Penn State College of Education Decolonizing and Indigenous Pedagogy Speaker Series | March 2020
SYRACUSE, NEW YORK
Te Mahi Rangahau: Māori & Pacific Research Native American & Indigenous Studies (SU) ‘Indigenous Intellectual Sovereignty’ Guest Speaker | April 2022
Global Indigineity: Gendering Resistance in Hawai’i Native American & Indigenous Studies (SU) ‘Global Indigenous Issues’ Guest Speaker | December 2017
Educational Colonialism Democratizing Knowledge ‘Understanding the Power of Place’ Guest Speaker | April 2017
Decolonizing Methodologies Native American & Indigenous Studies (SU) ‘Global Indigenous Issues’ Guest Speaker | November 2016
Decolonizing Educational Practice Democratizing Knowledge Mellon Foundation Summer Institute (w. Marcelle Haddix) | June 2016
Comparative Settler Colonialisms in Conversation: Indigenous Critique, Alliance Politics, & Decolonized Futures Democratizing Knowledge Panel (w. Jodi A. Byrd, Scott Morgensen, Dana Olwan) | March 2014
Our Voice & Allyship: An Indigenous Women’s Forum Pine Tree Talks (w. Jolene Rickard, Jonel Beauvais, Michelle Schenandoah, Christina Porter, Aedaniyo Seneca) | June 2020
TORONTO, CANADA
Pacific Cartographies and Sovereignties: Mapping Settler Colonial and Indigenous Topographies for Decolonial Futures Critical Ethnic Studies Association (w. Candace Fujikane, Kelsey Amos) | May 2015
UNCASVILLE, CONNECTICUT
Uncovering Restorative Education: Maori Women and Public Schools in Aotearoa/New Zealand Native American & Indigenous Studies Association | June 2012
WASHINGTON DC
Indigenous Cartography and Pacific Topographies: Mapping Gendered Economies onto Land for Decolonial Futures Native American & Indigenous Studies Association (w. Candace Fujikane, Tuti Baker, ku’ualoha manawanui) | June 2015