Jenny Bol Jun Lee-Morgan (also Jennifer Joy Lee) is a New Zealand academic and sociologist. She is Professor of MÃÂori Research, and was founding director of Unitec's NgàWai a Te Tà «Ã« MÃÂori Research Centre.
Lee-Morgan is MÃÂori, and affiliates to Waikato Tainui, NgÃÂti Mahuta, and NgÃÂti Te Ahiwaru. Her father is MÃÂoriâÂÂChinese and her mother is Chinese, and both were teachers. Lee-Morgan trained as a MÃÂori teacher, and started the MÃÂori unit at Northcote College, before leading the Kahurangi unit at Auckland Girls' Grammar School. She completed a Master of Arts in 1996, followed by a PhD titled Ako: Pà «rÃÂkau of MÃÂori teachers' work in secondary schools both at the University of Auckland.
Lee-Morgan then joined the faculty at Auckland, before moving to the University of Waikato, and rising to full professor. Lee-Morgan was the inaugural director of the NgàWai a Te Tà «Ã« MÃÂori Research Centre at Unitec Institute of Technology, which was established in 2021.
Lee-Morgan's research focuses on MÃÂori pedagogy. As part of the Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities National Science Challenge, Lee-Morgan and her research team ran the Te Manaaki o te MÃÂrae project, which looked at how Te Puea Memorial Marae in MÃÂngere was working with homeless people. In 2021 Lee-Morgan was awarded a Marsden grant with Dr Frances Hancock from The University of Auckland and Pà «kenga Matua Carwyn Jones (NgÃÂti Kahungunu) of Te WÃÂnanga o Raukawa, for a research project on protecting IhumÃÂtao from commercial development. The research also involved Pania Newton, Moana Waa and Qiane Matata-Sipu. Lee-Morgan is also a researcher in the NgàPae o Te MÃÂramatanga Centre of Research Excellence.
Lee-Morgan has written several books, including a book about the history of MÃÂoriâÂÂChinese people in New Zealand, Jade Taniwha: Maori-Chinese Identity and Schooling in Aotearoa. Her 2016 book with Jessica Hutchings, Decolonisation in Aotearoa: education, research and practice, was awarded the prize in the non-fiction category of the NgàKupu Ora Aotearoa MÃÂori Book Awards 2017.
In 2016, the New Zealand Association for Research in Education awarded Lee-Morgan the Te Tohu Pae Tawhiti Award for "her significant and high-quality research contribution to MÃÂori education".