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Jocelyn AZNAR
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institut für Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft at Universität Zürich, Unibe, Switzerland

Administrative areas: Vanuatu, Malampa (Vanuatu)
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Linguistic Anthropology, Narratives, Literature, Language Documentation, Digital Resources, Linguistic Description, Nisvai Language, Cross-linguistic Studies, Corpus Linguistics


Salhia BEN-MESSAHEL
Professor, Department of English at University of Toulon, France

Administrative areas: Australia
Places: Australia (area)
Keywords: Diasporas, Environment, Historical Imagination, History, Identity, Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations, Landscape, Literature, Narratives, Place


Jan BRZOBOHATY
PhD Student, Department of Asian Studies at Palacký University Olomouc, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic

Administrative areas: Tonga, New Zealand
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Pacific Studies, Language Revitalization, Language Policy, Applied Linguistics, International Relations, Conflict Resolution, Literature


Viola CARMILLA
Independent researcher, Italy

Administrative areas: Samoa, New Zealand
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Cultural Change, Diasporas, Exchanges, Globalization, Life-cycle Exchanges, Literature, Migration, Post-Colonialism, Postcolonial Literatures, Power and Resistance


Ellen CARTER
Postdoctoral Fellow, Département des langues at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France

Administrative areas: New Zealand
Places: Vanuatu, New Caledonia, France possession, French Polynesia, Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands
Keywords: Crime Fiction, Cultural Studies, Creativity, Colonial Literature, Contemporary Literatures, French Overseas Territories, Literature, Postcolonial Literatures, Post-Colonialism


Julia FRENGS
Associate Professor, Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, United States

Administrative areas: French Polynesia, New Caledonia
Keywords: Cultural Studies, Cultural Production, Decolonization, Disaster, Ecology, Feminism, French Polynesia, French Overseas Territories, Francophone Literatures, Gender


Odile GANNIER
Professor, Département de Lettres modernes/ CTEL at Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, France

Administrative areas: French Polynesia, New Caledonia
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Colonial Imagination, Colonial Literature, Cultural Studies, Francophone Literatures, Imagology, Literature, Navigation, Post-Colonialism, Voyaging, Marine Biodiversity


Volker HEESCHEN
Professor emeritus, Institut für Ethnologie at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

Administrative areas: Indonesia
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Anthropological Fieldwork, Contemporary Literatures, Great-men Societies, History, Human Rights, Kinship, Language Documentation, Language-Culture-Cognition, Linguistic Anthropology, Linguistic Description


Jari KUPIAINEN
Principal lecturer, Media Studies at Karelia University of Applied Sciences, Finland

Administrative areas: Solomon Islands, Rennell and Bellona (Solomon Islands), Western (Solomon Islands)
Places: Melanesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Art, Audiovisual and Media, Agency, Christianisation, Cognitive Anthropology, Colonial Discourse, Complexity, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Production


Sylvie LARGEAUD-ORTEGA
Associate Professor, English literature and culture at University of French Polynesia, French Polynesia

Administrative areas: French Polynesia
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Anti-colonial, Colonial Discourse, Colonial Imagination, Colonial Literature, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Studies, Engaged Anthropology, First Contacts, Francophone Literatures, Gender


Marika MOISSEEFF
Research Fellow, Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale at CNRS - Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, France

Administrative areas: Australia
Places: Australia (area), South Australia
Keywords: Cosmology, Death and Bereavement, Emotions, Gender, Health, Identity, Indigenous Politics, Justice, Kinship, Landscape


Robert NICOLE
Research Fellow, Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies at University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Administrative areas: Fiji
Places: Melanesia, Fiji Islands, Bau, Taveuni, Vanua Levu, Viti Levu
Keywords: Agency, Archaeology, Archives, Class, Race, Gender, Colonialism, Diplomacy, Indigenous Movements, Literature, Oral History, Peace And Conflict


Károly Sándor PALLAI
Research Fellow, Department of French and Francophone Studies at Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary

Administrative areas: Wallis and Futuna, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, New Caledonia, Kiribati, Hawaii, French Polynesia, Fiji, Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, Niue, Tuvalu, Tonga
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Contemporary Literatures, Francophone Literatures, Identity, Postcolonial Literatures, French Overseas Territories, Post-Colonialism, Narratives, Literature, Cultural Studies, Colonial Imagination


L. Michael RATNAPALAN
at Yonsei University, Korea, Republic of

Keywords: Christianity, Anthropology, Literature, Mission History, Missiology, Colonialism


Mere Marina TAITO
PhD Student, English and Linguistics at University of Otago, New Zealand

Administrative areas: Rotuma (Fiji)
Places: Miingimbi, Galuwin'ku, Ramininging, Gapuwiyak
Keywords: Archives, Creative Practice, Digital Technologies, Language Revitalization, Literature, Poetics


Natalia VELA AMENEIRO
Professor, Departamento de Filología Francesa e Inglesa at Universidad de Cádiz, Spain

Administrative areas: French Polynesia
Keywords: Literature, Gender


Fabrice WACALIE
Lecturer, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Education at University of New Caledonia, New Caledonia

Administrative areas: New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna, Vanuatu
Places: Melanesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Linguistic Description, Literature, Education, Education Policy, Cultural Studies


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Some figures...

The database of experts counts today 1424 profiles, of which 663 are publicly accessible, while 761 have chosen to remain private.

These persons have defined 843 unique keywords in which they situate their research interests and expertise.

They have also defined and described 725 'experiences' (research and teaching activities, consulting work, or applied projects) in which they have contributed.