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Ron ADAMS
Senior Research Fellow, Graduate Research Centre at Victoria University, Australia

Administrative areas: Vanuatu, Tafea (Vanuatu)
Places: Melanesia, Vanuatu
Keywords: Anthropological Fieldwork, Christianisation, Cultural Change, Custom, Colonialism, Decolonisation, Epistemology, Historical Consciousness, History, Memory


Sémir AL WARDI
Associate Professor, Laboratoire Gouvernance et Développement Insulaire at Université de la Polynésie française, French Polynesia

Administrative areas: French Polynesia
Places: Polynesia, Melanesia
Keywords: Colonialism, Democracy, Foreign Policy, French Overseas Territories, Governance, Indigenous Politics, Pacific Regional Politics, Political Culture


Doris BACALZO

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea, Morobe (Papua New Guinea), Eastern Highlands (Papua New Guinea)
Places: Papua New Guinea
Keywords: Children, Customary Law, Gender, Indigenous Politics, Kinship, Migration, Mining, Political Ecology, Political Economy, Engaged Anthropology


Joshua A. BELL
Curator, National Museum of Natural History at Smithsonian Institution, United States

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea, Hawaii
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Materiality, Material Culture, Logging, Natural Resource Exploitation, Cultural Transformation, Colonialism, Visual Anthropology, Mobile Telephony, Museums, Historical Consciousness


Rainer F. BUSCHMANN
Professor, History at California State University Channel Islands, United States

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea
Places: Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Anthropological Fieldwork, Colonial Discourse, Colonial Imagination, Colonialism, Ethnographic Encounter, Historical Consciousness, Historical Imagination, History, Knowledge, Museums


Laurence Marshall CARUCCI
Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Montana State University, United States

Administrative areas: Marshall Islands
Places: Marshall Islands
Keywords: Adoption, Age and Aging, Anthropological Fieldwork, Body, Christianity, Climate Change, Climate Change Migration, Colonial Discourse, Colonial Literature, Colonialism


Mathias CHAUCHAT
Professor, LARJE (Research Centre on Economics and Law) at Université de Nouvelle-Calédonie, New Caledonia

Keywords: Colonial Politic, Colonialism, Corruption, Development Studies, French Overseas Territories, Mining, Pacific Studies, Politics, Political Process, Political Economy


Ali CLARK
Curator, Department of World Cultures at National Museums Scotland, United Kingdom

Administrative areas: Australia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands
Places: Australia (area), Melanesia, Micronesia
Keywords: Art, Climate Change, Climate Change Migration, Colonialism, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Custom, Cultural Change, Exhibitions, Material Culture, Museums


Kasia Renae COOK
Independent researcher, The Samoa Historical and Cultural Trust, Samoa

Administrative areas: American Samoa, Australia, Tonga, New Zealand, Samoa
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Colonialism, Identity, Feeling of Belonging, Cultural Heritage, Race / Racism, Inter-racial Relations, Emigration, Racial Mobility


Michael Barry DAVIS
Independent researcher, Sydney Environment Institute at Sydney University, Australia

Administrative areas: Australia, New Zealand, Solomon Islands
Places: Australia (area)
Keywords: Colonial Discourse, Colonial Imagination, Colonialism, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Studies, Environment, Ethics, Ethnographic Encounter, Fisheries, First Contacts


Fabiana DIMPFLMEIER
Research Fellow, DILASS at 'Gabriele d'Annunzio' University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea, Australia
Places: Queensland, Melanesia
Keywords: Anthropology, Anthropological Field Records, Archives, Colonialism, Inter-racial Relations, Nationalism, New Guinea, Pacific Studies, Post-Colonialism, History Of Anthropology


Yannick ESSERTEL
Contractual researcher, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, EHESS, France

Administrative areas: New Zealand, Wallis and Futuna, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Hawaii, Samoa, Tonga
Places: Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia
Keywords: Christianisation, Conceptual Model, Colonialism, Missiology, Indigenous Christianities


Patricia FIFITA
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management at University of Hawai'i-Manoa, United States

Administrative areas: Tonga, New Zealand, Solomon Islands, Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam
Places: Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia
Keywords: Medical Anthropology, Ethnobotany, Indigenous Epistemology, Colonialism, Biomedicine, Gender, Non Communicable Diseases, Political Economy, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Climate Change


Courtney HANDMAN
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology at University of Texas at Austin, United States

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea, Morobe (Papua New Guinea)
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Christianity, Christianisation, Colonial Discourse, Colonialism, Communication, Language Policy, Language Ideology, Linguistic Anthropology, Mission History, Pacific Media


Katharina Wilhelmina HASLWANTER
PhD Student, Ethnographic Museum at University of Zurich, Switzerland

Administrative areas: Indonesia, Papua (Indonesia)
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Material Culture, Colonialism, Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations, Exchanges, Social Change, Technology, Museums, Visualization and Representation


Garrett HILLYER
PhD Student, Department of History at University of Hawai'i-Manoa, United States

Administrative areas: Samoa, American Samoa, Hawaii, New Zealand, Auckland (New Zealand), Manu'a (American Samoa)
Places: American Samoa, Samoa, Hawai'i (US State), New Zealand
Keywords: Food and Nutrition, Food History, Global History, Globalization, Oceanic Historicities, Orality And Oral Traditions, Deep Past, Ethnographic History, Colonialism, Resistance


Edwin JONES
PhD Student, Centre for Pacific Studies at University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom

Administrative areas: Fiji
Keywords: Christianity, Citizenship, Colonialism, Intellectual Property Rights, Kava, Land Dispute, Names and Naming, Oral Tradition, Poetics, Political Economy


Magdalena KITTELMANN
PhD Student, Institute of the History of Medicine and Medical Ethics at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Medical Anthropology, Christianisation, Colonialism


Francesco LATTANZI
PhD Student, Dipartimento di Storia Antropologia Religione Arte e Spettacolo at Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy

Administrative areas: French Polynesia, New Caledonia
Places: Melanesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Colonialism, Ethnographic Encounter, Heritage, Indigeneity, Material Culture, Memory, Oceanic Historicities, Orality, Seascapes, Secrecy


Jacqueline LECKIE
Associate Professor, Anthropology and Archaeology at University of Otago, New Zealand

Administrative areas: Fiji, New Zealand
Places: Melanesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Medical Anthropology, Colonialism, Migration, Agency, Diasporas, Ethnicity, Gender, History, Identity, Pacific Studies


Claudia LEDDERUCCI
PhD Student, Culture, Politica e Società at Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy

Administrative areas: French Polynesia, New Caledonia
Places: Melanesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Island Studies, Anthropological Fieldwork, Citizenship, Colonial Discourse, Colonialism, Contemporary Pacific, Militarism


Carol MACLENNAN
Professor, Social Sciences at Michigan Technological University, United States

Administrative areas: Hawaii
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Agriculture, Colonialism, Cultural Landscapes, Natural Resource Exploitation, Political Ecology, Water Resources


Jo MIDDLETON
Research Fellow, Sussex Sustainability Research Programme; Dept. Primary Care and Public Health, and NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Neglected Tropical Diseases at University of Sussex; Brighton and Sussex Medical School, United Kingdom

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Conservation, Biomedicine, Colonialism, Ecology, Ethnobotany, Global Health, Logging, Medical Anthropology, Medical Research, New Guinea


Denis MONNERIE
Professor emeritus, Laboratoire LinCS UMR 7069 CNRS Université de Strasbourg at Université de Strasbourg, France

Administrative areas: New Caledonia, Solomon Islands
Keywords: Kinship, Language, Ceremonial discourse, Names and Naming, Performance, Political Anthropology, Resilience, Ritual Studies, Social Change, Society


Julia MORRIS
Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina Wilmington, United States

Administrative areas: Nauru, Australia
Places: Micronesia
Keywords: Migration And Im/Mobility, Resource Extraction, Colonialism


Adrian MUCKLE
Senior Lecturer, History Programme at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Administrative areas: New Caledonia, New Zealand
Places: Melanesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Colonialism, Decolonisation, French Overseas Territories, Violence, Post-Colonialism, History, Colonial Discourse, Commemoration


Hermann MUECKLER
Professor, Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology at University of Vienna, Austria

Administrative areas: Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Rapanui - Easter Island (Chile), Hawaii, Marshall Islands
Places: Melanesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Historical Imagination, Mission History, Post-Colonialism, Neo-Colonialism, Colonialism, Conflict Management, Cultural Studies, History, Material Culture, Peace And Conflict


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


Jude PHILP
Curator, Macleay Museum at Sydney University Museums, Australia

Places: Torres Strait, Western Province (Fly), National Capital District, Central
Keywords: Agency, Christianity, Colonialism, Cultural Heritage, Culture-nature Relations, History, Indigenous Christianities, Mission History, Museums, Photography


Max QUANCHI
Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences at University of the South Pacific, Fiji

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Australia, New Caledonia
Places: Australia (area), Melanesia
Keywords: Colonialism, First Contacts, Pacific Studies as Field of Study, Photography, Visualization and Representation


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

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


Hélena REGIUS
Independent researcher

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Christianisation, Colonialism, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Cultural Heritage, Custom, Indigenous Christianities, Material Culture, Missiology, Museums, Textiles / Fibre Arts


Amiria SALMOND
Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology at University of Auckland, New Zealand

Administrative areas: New Zealand, Gisborne (New Zealand)
Places: Polynesia, Micronesia
Keywords: Anthropology of Ontology, Colonialism, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Cultural Transformation, Digital Resources, First Contacts, Intellectual Property Rights, Kinship, Law and Culture, Museums


Dominik SCHIEDER
Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences at University of Siegen, Germany

Administrative areas: Fiji, Samoa
Places: Fiji Islands, Samoa
Keywords: Migration, Social Organization, Agency, Applied Anthropology, Class, Colonial Discourse, Colonial Imagination, Colonialism, Complexity, Conflict


Suzanne SPUNNER
Research Fellow, Indigenous Studies Unit, Centre for Health Equity at The Univeristy of Melbourne, Australia

Administrative areas: Australia
Places: Australia (area)
Keywords: Agency, Art, Archives, Colonialism, Cultural Heritage, Exhibitions, Indigenous Agency, Intellectual Property Rights, Memory, Oral History


Adrian TANNER
Professor emeritus, Department of Anthropology at Memorial University, Canada

Administrative areas: Fiji, Eastern (Fiji)
Keywords: Anthropological Fieldwork, Colonialism, Domestic Space, Horticulture, Land Tenure, Myth, Native Title, Regional History, Ritual, Subsistence Economy


Upolu Luma VAAI
Senior Lecturer, HoD Theology and Ethics Department at Pacific Theological College, Fiji

Administrative areas: Fiji, Samoa, American Samoa, Tokelau, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Cook Islands
Places: Polynesia, Melanesia
Keywords: Christianity, Pacific Relational Hermeneutics, Relational Theology, Relational Ethics, Pacific Epistemology, Climate Change, Colonialism, Economy And Justice


Frank WEIGELT
Senior Lecturer, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at University of Hamburg, Germany

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Indonesia, New Caledonia
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Agency, Applied Anthropology, Class, Colonial Discourse, Cognitive Anthropology, Colonialism, Conflict, Conflict Management, Cultural Change, Cultural Heritage


Alexandra (Sandra) WIDMER
Assistant Professor, Anthropolgy Dept at York University, Canada

Administrative areas: Vanuatu
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Colonialism, Food and Nutrition, Gender, Health, Medical Anthropology, Metabolic Disorders, Modernity, Post-Colonialism, Nursing And Midwifery, Reproduction


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The database of experts counts today 1332 profiles, of which 634 are publicly accessible, while 698 have chosen to remain private.

These persons have defined 814 unique keywords in which they situate their research interests and expertise.

They have also defined and described 695 'experiences' (research and teaching activities, consulting work, or applied projects) in which they have contributed.