Kalissa Alexeyeff teaches in the Gender Studies Programme, School of Social and Political Sciences at The University of Melbourne. She specialises in the areas of gender and sexuality, globalisation and development. She has conducted research in the Pacific and the Pacific diaspora over the last 25 years, particularly Cook Islands and Samoan communities. Her publications cover contemporary gender identities, migration, performance and effect and, more recently, fashion cultures in the region. Her first book Dancing from the Heart: Movement, Gender and Cook Islands Globalization (2009) explores the significance of dance to Cook Islands femininity throughout colonial history and in its contemporary global manifestations. She is co-editor with Niko Besnier of Gender on the Edge: Transgender, Gay, and Other Pacific Islanders (2014) which explores alternative sexualities and gender identities in the Pacific region. With John Taylor, she edited the book Touring Pacific Cultures (2016) which examined touring and tourism. Fashioning culture: Transforming perspectives from Oceania (2021) is a an edited collection of the journal of Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty which was co-edited with Geir Henning Presterudstuen.

Gender, Body, Class, Dance, Development, Diasporas, Economic Anthropology, Emotions, Ethics, Feminism, Labour Mobility, Material Culture, Neo-Colonialism, Pacific Studies as Field of Study, Performance, Race / Racism, Work, Globalization

Gender studies

Australian Association for Pacific Studies (AAPS)

Polynesia

20th century
21st century
Anticipatory