She completed her PhD on the construction of New Zealand national identity, with a focus on the place of the Maori. Her recent research deals with the different models of management of ethno-cultural diversity in postcolonial societies, examining the evolution of indigenous peoples’ rights and the strategies used nationally and internationally for recognition and empowerment. She is presently working on how political ecology has become a new vector for indigenous claims. Her work has appeared in the journals Anglophonia, and the British Review of New Zealand Studies, and in the edited collections New Zealand and Australia: Narrative, History, Representation (2008), Conciliation et Réconciliation: Stratégies dans le Pacifique (2008), and Expériences des Guerres: Regards, Témoignages, Récits (2012).