Doctoral Student Fellow
Doctoral Student, Department of Anthropology, Graduate School of Arts & Science
Mediating Mãoritanga: Television, Video, and the Construction of Identity in New Zealand
April Strickland is a documentary filmmaker and received her PhD from the Anthropology Department at New York University. She earned her B.A. in Art History from Mount Holyoke College and a Certificate in Culture and Media from New York University. Her dissertation research considers how sites of Maori media production in New Zealand create, negotiate, and sustain Indigenous subject formation, reclaim Maori political and cultural agency, and contest state-legislated identities. As 2009–2010 Teaching Prize Fellow, Ms. Strickland taught undergraduate courses at New York University on The Anthropology of Media and Sovereignty and Civil Disobedience. She is also an avid sports fan.