Cook Islands

Kalissa ALEXEYEFF
Senior Lecturer at University of Melbourne, Australia

Keywords: Gender, Body, Class, Dance, Development, Diasporas, Economic Anthropology, Emotions, Ethics, Feminism

Bryant ALLEN
Adjunct/associate Researcher, Dept of Pacific Affairs at The Australian National University, Australia

Keywords: Land Ownership, Millenarianism, Oral History, World War II, Disaster, Climate Change, Ethnobotany, Health

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

Keywords: Cultural Studies, Development Studies, Diasporas, Education, Indigenous Epistemology, Post-Colonialism, Spirituality, Kava, Indigenous Substances/medicines, Identity

Michaela APPEL
Curator, South Asia, Southeast Asia and Australia at Museum Fuenf Kontinente, Germany

Keywords: Art, Austronesian Languages, History, Oral Tradition, Ritual, Indigenous Agency

SERGE DUNIS
Independent researcher, retired University Professor at University of the French Pacific, French Polynesia

Keywords: Myth, Pre-European Settlement, Genetics, Archaeology, Prehistory

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

Keywords: Post-Colonialism, Self-Determination, World War II, Art, Climate Change, Cultural Studies, Critical History, Commemoration, Gender, Sexuality

Andrea EIMKE
PhD Student, CoLab at AUT Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

Keywords: Art, Creativity, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Technology, Feeling of Belonging, Identity, Material Culture, Place, Space, Tapa

Sue FARRAN
Professor, Law at Northumbria University, United Kingdom

Keywords: Customary Law, Gender, Land Tenure, Neo-Colonialism, Post-Colonialism, Sustainability, Development, Children, Legal Pluralism

Yannick FER
Research Fellow, Groupe Sociétés religions laïcités at CNRS - Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, France

Keywords: Christianity, Social Change, Politics, Emotions, Feeling of Belonging, French Overseas Territories, Migration, Morality, Religion, Institution

David GLORY
Postdoctoral Fellow at CREDO, France

Keywords: Anthropological Fieldwork, Anthropology of Knoweldge, Coastal Erosion, Conservation, Development, Disaster, Environment, Outer Island Development, Resilience And Indigenous Communities, Social Change

Sargam GOUNDAR
PhD Student, School of Geography at University of Otago, New Zealand

Keywords: Climate Change Migration, Pacific Studies, Sustainable Development, Perceptions, Geography, Sustainable Livelihoods

Nicholas HOARE
Lecturer, Department of Pacific Affairs at The Australian National University, Australia

Keywords: Mining, Mining and its Discontents, Phosphate, Labour Mobility, Biographic Research, Archives, History Of Anthropology, Newspaper History, Colonialism, Environment

Elisabeth HOLLAND
Professor, Pacific Centre for the Environment and Sustainable Development at University of the South Pacific, Nauru

Keywords: Climate Change, Oceania, Ocean Acidification, Pacific Studies, Sustainable Development, Sustainability

Edvard HVIDING
Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, Bergen Pacific Studies at University of Bergen, Norway

Keywords: Social Organization, Cultural Heritage, Environment, Climate Change, Indigenous Political Movements, Ethnobiology, Art, Dance, Performance, Diplomacy

Takiora INGRAM
Independent researcher, FRIENDS OF THE LAGOON/PACIFIC PLANNING &RESEARCH at Non-Government Organization, Cook Islands

Keywords: Climate Policy, Development, Gender Violence, Mining and its Discontents, Political Anthropology, Regional History, Seascape, Social Impact Analysis, Sustainable Tourism, World Heritage

Kim Andreas KESSLER
, School of Geography at University of Otago, New Zealand

Keywords: Development, Resilience, Livelihoods, Aspirations, Aid, Rural-urban Linkages, Spatial Justice, Climate Change Adaptation, History Of Anthropology, Higher Education

Lea Lani KINIKINI KAUVAKA
Independent researcher, Pacific Community at EU PacTVET project, Tonga

Keywords: Resilience, Indigenous Knowledge, Forced Migration, Subaltern Bodies, Māui Genealogies, Body Theory, Coconut Oil, Race, Settlerhood

Michael LIGALIGA
Associate Professor, Intercultural Peacebuilding and Pacific Studies at Brigham Young University Hawaii, United States

Keywords: Peace And Conflict, Indigenous Peacebuilding, Vābuilding, Decolonizing Pedagogy, Conflict, Conflict Management, Peace, Indigenous Peacebuilding,

Gwendoline MALOGNE-FER
Postdoctoral Fellow, Groupe Sociétés religions laïcité at EPHE/CNRS, France

Keywords: Religion, Social Change, Migration, Gender, Christianisation, Audiovisual and Media, Mission History

Carol Elizabeth MAYER

Keywords: Anthropology of Knoweldge, Climate Change, Colonial Discourse, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Cultural Heritage, Customary Law, Worldview, Visual Anthropology, Tapa, Sustainable Development

John Joseph MCCAFFERY
Research Fellow, Faculty of Education, University of Auckland at Uniservices Consultancy Ltd, New Zealand

Keywords: Education, Education Policy, Language Policy, Language Shift, Language-Culture-Cognition, Polynesian Languages, Pacific Studies, Language, Literacy, Bilingual/Immersion Education

Anthony MEYER

Keywords: Cultural Artefacts, Ethnographic Encounter, Ethnographic History, Ethnographic Filmmaking, Exhibitions, Heritage, Heritage Management, Material Culture, Oceania, Traditional Art Forms Of Pre- And Contact Oceania

Richard MOYLE
Professor emeritus, Centre for Pacific Studies at University of Auckland, New Zealand

Keywords: Christianisation, Cultural Change, Dance, Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations, Language Documentation, Polynesian Languages, Ritual, Voyaging, Oral Tradition, Music

Valelia MUNI TOKE
Research Fellow, SeDyL at IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, France

Keywords: Sovereignty, Stakeholder Engagement, State, Public Policies, Public Services, Health, Food and Nutrition, Multilingualism, Mining, Oceans

Peter NUTTALL
Senior Research Fellow, School of Marine Studies at University of the South Pacific, Fiji

Keywords: Canoes, Climate Change, Climate Policy, Transport, Voyaging, Technology

Arno PASCHT
Research Fellow, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

Keywords: Political Anthropology, Leadership, Legal Pluralism, Cultural Change, Environment, Climate Change

Federica PIERISTÈ
PhD Student, Dipartimento di Storia, Antropologia, Religioni SARAS at Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy

Keywords: Gastrocolonialism, Sovereignty, Sustainability, Local Ecological Knowledge, Indigenous Political Movements, Food and Nutrition, Decolonisation, Creativity

Gene RANKEY
Professor, Geology at University of Kansas, United States

Keywords: Geomorphology, Sedimentology, Ocean Acidification, Coral Reefs, Coastal Erosion, Remote Sensing, Hydrodynamics

Catherine RIS
Associate Professor, LARJE (Research Centre on Economics and Law) at University of New Caledonia, New Caledonia

Keywords: Development Studies, Education Policy, Employment, Ethnicity, French Overseas Territories, Population and Development, Public Policies, Social Justice Policy, Youth, Mining

Cecilie RUBOW
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology at University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Keywords: Climate Change

Penelope SCHOEFFEL
Associate Professor, Centre for Samoan Studies at National University of Samoa, Samoa

Keywords: Applied Anthropology, Development Studies

Yvonne UNDERHILL-SEM
Associate Professor, Development Studies at University of Auckland, New Zealand

Keywords: Body, Development, Markets, Political Ecology, Feminsm

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

Keywords: Christianity, Pacific Relational Hermeneutics, Relational Theology, Relational Ethics, Pacific Epistemology, Climate Change, Colonialism, Economy And Justice

Joeli VEITAYAKI
Associate Professor, School of Marine Studies at University of the South Pacific, Fiji

Keywords: Climate Change, Conservation, Cultural Geography, Fisheries, Natural Resources, Natural Hazards, Sustainability

Margaretha WEWERINKE-SINGH
Lecturer, School of Law at University of the South Pacific, Vanuatu

Keywords: Climate Change, Human Right To A Healthy Environment, Human Rights, Human Rights And Environmental Studies, Climate Change Migration, Climate Policy, Intergenerational Equity, International Relationships, Statehood, Sustainable Development

Graeme WHIMP
, Australia

Keywords: Austronesian Prehistory, Colonial Discourse, Colonial Imagination, Narratives, Settler Colonialism, Interdisciplinarity, Pacific Studies as Field of Study