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Guillaume ALEVEQUE
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institut interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain at EHESS - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France

Administrative areas: French Polynesia
Keywords: Christianisation, Cultural Heritage, First Contacts, Personhood, Ritual, Social Movement, Post-Colonialism, Nuclear Issues


Chloé ANGUÉ
Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre de recherches en littérature et poétique comparées at Université Paris Nanterre, France

Administrative areas: French Polynesia, New Zealand, Samoa
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Myth, Imagology, Colonial Imagination, Colonial Literature, Post-Colonialism, Poetics, Cultural Studies


Apo APOROSA
Research Fellow, Anthropology at University of Waikato, New Zealand

Administrative areas: Fiji, New Zealand, Tonga, Samoa, Vanuatu, Cook Islands, Hawaii
Places: Melanesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Cultural Studies, Development Studies, Diasporas, Education, Indigenous Epistemology, Post-Colonialism, Spirituality, Kava, Indigenous Substances/medicines, Identity


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


EMANUELA BORGNINO
Postdoctoral Fellow, Cultural & Social Anthropology at University of Torino, Italy

Administrative areas: Hawaii
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Eco-anthropology, Environment, Indigenous Peoples Rights, Post-Colonialism, Native Title, Ecology of relations


Roser BOSCH I DARNÉ
PhD Student, Humanities Department & University Institute of Culture at Pompeu Fabra University, Spain

Administrative areas: Australia
Places: Australia (area)
Keywords: Agency, Colonial Discourse, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Cultural Studies, History, Identity, Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations, Material Culture, Museums, Post-Colonialism


Séverine BOUARD
Research Fellow, Axe III "Nouvelles ruralités et destin commun" at Institut Agronomique néo-Calédonien, New Caledonia

Administrative areas: New Caledonia
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Agriculture, Development, Indigenous Political Movements, Land Tenure, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Post-Colonialism, Sustainability, Sociology of Public Action


Agnes BRANDT
Other staff at European Parliament, Belgium

Administrative areas: New Zealand, Auckland (New Zealand), Wellington (New Zealand)
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Agency, Biculturalism, Climate Change, Climate Policy, Feminism, Gender, Identity, Indigenous Epistemology, Inter-ethnic Relations, Relatedness


Georges BUREAU
Independent researcher, France

Administrative areas: New Zealand, Northland (New Zealand), Australia, Northern Territory (Australia)
Keywords: Art, Media And National Identity, Post-Colonialism, Visualization and Representation, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Public Art


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


Margaret CASSIDY
PhD Student, School of Creative Arts & Media at University of Tasmania, Australia

Administrative areas: Australia
Places: Polynesia, Melanesia, Australia (area)
Keywords: Journalism, Media And National Identity, Photography, Post-Colonialism, Visualization and Representation


Emilie CHEVALIER
PhD Student, GEOLAB at University of Limoges, France

Administrative areas: French Polynesia, Australia
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Climate Change, French Overseas Territories, Migration, Political Ecology, Post-Colonialism, Space


Roberta COLOMBO DOUGOUD
Curator, Oceania Departement at Musée d'ethnographie de Genève, Switzerland

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea, East Sepik (Papua New Guinea), Australia, New Caledonia
Places: Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia, Australia (area)
Keywords: Anthropology, Art, Exhibitions, Museums, Material Culture, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Cultural Change, Post-Colonialism


Ian CONRICH
Professor, Visual and Material Culture at University of Vienna, Austria

Administrative areas: New Zealand, Rapanui - Easter Island (Chile), Australia, Hawaii, Samoa
Places: Polynesia, Australia (area)
Keywords: Film Studies, Audiovisual and Media, Media And National Identity, Popular Culture, Post-Colonialism, Visual Anthropology, Material Culture, Museums, Multiculturalism, Anthropology of Tourism


Emmanuelle CRANE
Adjunct Professor, History, Media studies at Sorbonne Paris 4, France

Administrative areas: French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Rapanui - Easter Island (Chile), Australia
Keywords: Engaged Anthropology, Ethnographic Filmmaking, French Overseas Territories, Gender Violence, Justice, Media And National Identity, Pacific Media, Post-Colonialism, Violence, Sexual Assaults


Anne-Marie D'HAUTESERRE
Senior Lecturer, Geography, Tourism and Environmental Planning at University of Waikato, New Zealand

Administrative areas: French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna, New Zealand
Places: Melanesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Cultural Studies, Development, French Overseas Territories, Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations, Post-Colonialism, Tourism


Gaëtan DESO
PhD Student, CRISES E.A. 4424 – Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires en Sciences humaines et Sociales at Université Paul-Valéry de Montpellier, France

Administrative areas: New Zealand, French Polynesia, Hawaii
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Art, Cultural Heritage, French Overseas Territories, Museums, Post-Colonialism


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


Greg DVORAK
Professor, Graduate School of Culture and Communication Studies at Waseda University, Japan

Administrative areas: Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Hawaii, Guam, Palau, Northern Mariana Islands, Cook Islands, Tonga, New Zealand, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Australia
Places: Micronesia, Marshall Islands
Keywords: Post-Colonialism, Self-Determination, World War II, Art, Climate Change, Cultural Studies, Critical History, Commemoration, Gender, Sexuality


Sina EMDE
Lecturer, Social Anthropology at Leipzig University, Germany

Administrative areas: Fiji
Places: Melanesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Gender, Nationalism, Identity, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), State, Security, Political Process, Personhood, Post-Colonialism, Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations


A. - [Chris]tina ENGELS-SCHWARZPAUL
Professor, School of Art and Design at Auckland University of Technology - Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makau Rau, New Zealand

Administrative areas: New Zealand, Samoa, Hawaii
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Architectural Anthropology, Audiovisual and Media, Performance, Possession, Post-Colonialism, Spatial Theory, Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations, Indigenous Epistemology, Decolonisation, Exhibitions


Sue FARRAN
Professor, Law at Newcastle University, United Kingdom

Administrative areas: Vanuatu, Pitcairn Islands, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Marshall Islands
Keywords: Customary Law, Gender, Land Tenure, Neo-Colonialism, Post-Colonialism, Sustainability, Development, Children, Legal Pluralism


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


Elisabetta GNECCHI-RUSCONE
Independent researcher, Dipartimento di Scienze Umane per la Formazione at Università di Milano Bicocca, Italy

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea, Northern (Papua New Guinea)
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Art, Christianisation, Colonial Discourse, Cosmology, Cultural Heritage, Domestic Space, First Contacts, Identity, History, Life-cycle Exchanges


Matthias KOWASCH
Professor, Laboratoire Médiations at Sorbonne University, France

Administrative areas: New Caledonia, Vanuatu
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Conflict, Development, Education, Governance, Indigenous Political Movements, Identity, Land Tenure, Mining, Post-Colonialism, Political Ecology


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


Stephanie LAWSON
Professor, Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University, Australia

Administrative areas: Fiji, Tonga, Samoa
Places: Melanesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Custom, Democracy, Globalization, Governance, Inter-ethnic Relations, International Relationships, Pacific Regional Politics, Politics, Post-Colonialism, Race / Racism


Géraldine LE ROUX
Lecturer, Department of Ethnology at Université de Bretagne Occidentale , France

Administrative areas: Australia, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands
Places: Polynesia, Melanesia, Australia (area)
Keywords: Art, Colonial Imagination, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Diasporas, Identity, Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations, Indigenous Politics, Museums, Performance, Post-Colonialism


Tate LEFEVRE
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology at Franklin and Marshall College, United States

Administrative areas: New Caledonia
Places: Melanesia, New Caledonia
Keywords: Citizenship, Identity, Nationalism, Post-Colonialism, Politics, Personhood, Social Change, State, Visualization and Representation, Youth


Bernd LEICHT
Independent researcher

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Anti-colonial, Colonial Discourse, Colonial Imagination, First Contacts, Museums, Post-Colonialism


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


Helene MARTINSSON-WALLIN
Associate Professor, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Campus Gotland at Uppsala University, Sweden

Administrative areas: Samoa, Rapanui - Easter Island (Chile), Galapagos (Ecuador)
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Architectural Anthropology, Austronesian Prehistory, Cultural Change, Cultural Heritage, Heritage Management, Material Culture, Migration, Polynesian Chiefdoms, Post-Colonialism, Spatial Theory


Malaika MIKAELSSON
PhD Student, Department of Thematic Studies: Environmental Change at Linköping University, Sweden

Places: Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Climate Change, Small Island Developing States (SIDS), Regionalism, Sovereignty, Geopolitics, Agency, Pacific Diplomacy, Post-Colonialism, Subaltern Geopolitics


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


Rebecca MONSON
Senior Lecturer, ANU College of Law at Australian National University, Australia

Administrative areas: Solomon Islands, Australia, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea
Places: Melanesia, Solomon Islands, Marovo Lagoon, New Georgia, Guadalcanal
Keywords: Sociolegal, Legal Geography, Cultural Geography, Customary Law, Gender, Land Tenure, Legal Pluralism, Political Ecology, Post-Colonialism, Settler Colonialism


Nathalie MRGUDOVIC
Lecturer, School of Languages and Social sciences at Aston University, United Kingdom

Administrative areas: New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Vanuatu, Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Wallis and Futuna
Places: Melanesia, Polynesia, Australia (area), Micronesia
Keywords: Self-Determination, Political Process, International Relationships, Post-Colonialism, Regional Integration, French Overseas Territories, Sub-regionalism


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


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


Aaron PEARCE
PhD Student, Humanities at University of Southern Queensland, Australia

Administrative areas: Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea
Places: Australia (area), Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Governance, Political Process, Sub-regionalism, Nationalism, Political Culture, Post-Colonialism, Social Organization, Development


Catherine PELLINI
PhD Student, CREDO - Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie at Aix-Marseille University, France

Administrative areas: New Zealand, Auckland (New Zealand)
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Contemporary Indigenous Art, Decolonisation, Feminism, Gender, Identity, Post-Colonialism, Urban, Visual Anthropology, Art, Biculturalism


Jonathon PRASAD
, Department of Religious Studies at Lancaster University, United Kingdom

Administrative areas: Fiji
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Body Theory, Cognitive Anthropology, Colonial Discourse, Colonial Imagination, Conceptual Model, Cultural Geography, Dance, Death and Bereavement, Diasporas, Epistemology


Geir Henning PRESTERUDSTUEN
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology at University of Bergen, Norway

Administrative areas: Fiji, Australia
Places: Fiji Islands
Keywords: Economic Anthropology, Ethnicity, Gender, Gender Violence, Health, Monsters, Post-Colonialism, Christianity, Body, Violence


Julia RATZMANN
Other staff, Pacific Information Desk at Centre for Mission, Partnership and Development, Germany

Administrative areas: Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Post-Colonialism, Christianisation, Conflict, French Overseas Territories, Land Dispute, Logging, Mining, Museums, Nuclear Issues, Tourism


Scott ROBERTSON
PhD Student, State, Society and Governance in Melanesia at Australian National University, Australia

Administrative areas: New Caledonia, French Polynesia, Wallis and Futuna
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Colonial Politic, Citizenship, French Overseas Territories, Political Anthropology, Self-Determination, Settler Colonialism, Post-Colonialism, Decolonisation


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


Laura SCHUFT
Adjunct/associate Researcher, Faculty of Sports Sciences at Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France

Administrative areas: French Polynesia
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Gender, Post-Colonialism, Race / Racism


Ann SULLIVAN
Associate Professor, Maori Studies, Te Wananga o Waipa at University of Auckland, New Zealand

Administrative areas: New Zealand, Australia
Places: Australia (area), Polynesia
Keywords: Cultural Studies, Democracy, Identity, Inter-ethnic Relations, Political Process, Post-Colonialism, Race / Racism, Self-Determination, Urban Identity, Urbanization


Anke TONNAER
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology Centre for Pacific and Asian Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

Administrative areas: Australia
Places: Australia (area)
Keywords: Tourism, Performance, Ritual, Post-Colonialism, Cultural Heritage, Exchanges, Globalization, Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations, Intersubjectivity, Anthropological Fieldwork


Andreea Raluca TORRE
Lecturer, School of Government, Development and International Affairs at University of the South Pacific, Fiji

Administrative areas: Fiji
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Ethnicity, Gender, Governance, Indigenous Epistemology, Labour Mobility, Migration, Population and Development, Post-Colonialism


Toon VAN MEIJL
Professor, Centre for Pacific and Asian Studies - Dept. of Anthropology and Development Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

Administrative areas: New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, Tonga
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Anti-colonial, Climate Change, Colonial Discourse, Colonial Imagination, Corporations, Cultural Heritage, Identity, Indigenous Politics, Intellectual Property Rights, Land Dispute


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


Dariusz ZDZIECH
Adjunct/associate Researcher, President at Australia, New Zealand and Oceania Research Association, Poland

Administrative areas: New Zealand, Kiribati, Hawaii
Places: Micronesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Christianisation, Citizenship, Coconut, Development, Food and Nutrition, First Contacts, Governance, History, Identity, Library


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The database of experts counts today 1368 profiles, of which 647 are publicly accessible, while 721 have chosen to remain private.

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