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Dame Evelyn Mary Stokes (5 December 1936 – 15 August 2005) was a professor of geography at the University of Waikato in New Zealand and a member of the New Zealand government's Waitangi Tribunal. Throughout her life she worked for recognition of marginalised groups including women and Māori, and she published extensively on New Zealand historical geography and on Māori land issues.〔.〕 ==Biography== Evelyn Mary Dinsdale was born in Tauranga, New Zealand, on 5 December 1936. She was educated at Tauranga Primary School and Tauranga College, where she was one of the first non-Māori to join the local kapa haka group.〔.〕 She then went to Canterbury University College, earning a master's degree with first class honours in geography in 1959.〔Author's biography from ''A History of Tauranga County''.〕 After earning this degree, she took a postgraduate teacher training course from Christchurch Teachers' College and taught briefly at Te Kuiti high school, fulfilling the requirements of the post primary teachers' bursary that had funded her education. Dinsdale was awarded a Fulbright Travel Grant and a Smith-Mundt Grant from the United States government in 1960, freeing her to travel to Syracuse University, where she received her PhD in 1963 under the supervision of Donald Meinig.〔. Reprinted in ''Datum: Newsletter of the New Zealand Map Society'', no. 23, November 2005.〕〔.〕 While in America, she demonstrated long poi swinging on television.〔Rigby (2005) states that she appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, but her letters from the time (''Evelyn's Letters from America'', p. 181) only mention a local television show hosted by Phil Markert, and there is no other record of an Ed Sullivan appearance.〕 Soon after her return to New Zealand, in 1964, she married Brian Stokes, changing her name to Evelyn Stokes; they had two children, Donald and Philip. Although Evelyn and Brian Stokes later divorced, Dr. Stokes continued to use her married name professionally for the rest of her career. Stokes was appointed to a lecturership with the Auckland University, and taught for a year for their Waikato branch before becoming a member of the geography department at Waikato University when that university was founded in 1964.〔 At Waikato, she worked hard to promote Māori studies and to integrate local Māori communities into the university's activities,〔〔.〕 and she continued to serve as a faculty member for nearly 41 years, the longest tenure among the Waikato staff.〔.〕 In 1969 she was promoted to Senior Lecturer, and in 1975 to Reader.〔 In the early 1970s, unusually for geography departments in New Zealand, the department at Waikato split into two, with physical geography moving to the Department of Earth Sciences; Stokes remained with the renamed Department of Human Geography and Environmental Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.〔.〕 Johnson recalls her as "a wise but stroppy woman, someone who would have no truck with fools but who opened her heart, her mind and her home to those whose intellect and politics she respected", and she was known as the "kuia" (a Māori word for a wise old woman) of the geography department.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Evelyn Stokes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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