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Michelle DYER
Postdoctoral Fellow, Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University, Sweden

Administrative areas: Solomon Islands
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Anthropology, Applied Anthropology, Environmental Anthropology, Feminism, Gender, Indigenous Epistemology, Land Tenure, Natural Resource Exploitation, Political Ecology, Resilience


Desirée HETZEL
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for European Ethnology/IRI THESYs at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

Administrative areas: Vanuatu
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Environmental Anthropology, Climate Change, Horticulture, Indigenous Political Movements, Climate Change Adaptation, Livelihoods, Resilience And Indigenous Communities, Water


Jerry Keith JACKA
Professor, Anthropology at University of Colorado Boulder, United States

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea
Keywords: Development, Environmental Anthropology, Climate Change


Stéphanie LECLERC-CAFFAREL
Contractual researcher, Anthropology Department, National Museum of Natural History at Smithsonian Institution, United States

Administrative areas: Fiji
Places: Polynesia, Melanesia
Keywords: Agency, Art, Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations, Museums, Body, Ceremonial discourse, Colonial Imagination, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Culture-nature Relations, Custom


Kayser LIS
PhD Student, Anthropology Department, Aarhus University at Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Denmark

Administrative areas: French Polynesia
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Environmental Anthropology, French Polynesia, International Relations, Nuclear Issues, Post-Colonialism, Memory, Politics Of Knowing And Not Knowing


Michelle MACCARTHY
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology at Saint Mary's University, Canada

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Anthropology of Tourism, Christianity, Cosmology, Cultural Change, Cultural Heritage, Death and Bereavement, Economic Anthropology, Environmental Anthropology, Gender, Gift-giving Practices And Theory


Martha MACINTYRE
Research Fellow, School of Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Arts at The University of Melbourne, Australia

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Economic Anthropology, Environmental Anthropology, Extractive Industry - Mining And Oil, Feminism, Gender, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Land Tenure, Medical Anthropology, Milne Bay


Michael Allan MAIN
Independent researcher, Research Affiliate, The Initiative for Peacebuilding at The University of Melbourne, Australia

Administrative areas: Australia
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Applied Anthropology, Conflict Resolution, Environmental Anthropology, Indigenous Agency, Inequality, Land Ownership, Papua New Guimea, Resource Extraction, Violent Conflict, Sorcery And Related Violence


Ian PARKER
PhD Student, Department of Anthropology at University of California San Diego, United States

Administrative areas: Indonesia, Irian Jaya Barat (Indonesia), Papua (Indonesia)
Places: Melanesia, Polynesia, West Papua
Keywords: Ethics, Environmental Anthropology, Conservation, Interethnic Relations, Tourism, Social-ecological System, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Human-environment Relations, Religion, Seascapes


Eilin Holtan TORGERSEN
PhD Student, Department of Social Anthropology, Bergen Pacific Studies at University of Bergen, Norway

Administrative areas: Hawaii
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Cosmology, Cultural Change, Cultural Landscapes, Culture-nature Relations, Dance, Disaster, Ecology, Environmental Anthropology, Epistemology, Ethnicity


Carsten WERGIN
Associate Professor, Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS) at Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany

Administrative areas: Australia, Western Australia (Australia)
Places: Australia (country), Western Australia
Keywords: Audiovisual and Media, Climate Change, Conflict Management, Conservation, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Culture-nature Relations, Decolonisation, Diasporas, Environmental Anthropology, Global Health


Elisabeth WORLICZEK
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Global Change and Sustainability at University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Austria

Administrative areas: New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna, French Polynesia, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu
Places: Melanesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Climate Change, Climate Change Migration, Coastal Erosion, Cultural Change, Disaster, Interdisciplinarity, Migration, Mining and its Discontents, Natural Hazards, Social Change


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Some figures...

The database of experts counts today 1398 profiles, of which 656 are publicly accessible, while 742 have chosen to remain private.

These persons have defined 835 unique keywords in which they situate their research interests and expertise.

They have also defined and described 712 'experiences' (research and teaching activities, consulting work, or applied projects) in which they have contributed.