Contributors
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Frédéric Angleviel is professor in contemporary history at the University of New Caledonia and editor of the annual journal Annales d'histoire calédonienne. His 1989 doctoral thesis on the religious history of Wallis and Futuna was published in 1994, and in 2002 he completed his second French thesis (HDR) on New Caledonia's historiography (published in 2003). His research interests include perceptions of Christianity in Oceania, identity and migrations, historical sources, and, especially in recent years, the politics and governance of New Caledonia.
John Connell is a geographer in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney. He has worked in several parts of the Pacific, but especially Bougainville, and written several books on development issues in the region.
Stewart Firth, formerly professor of Politics at the University of the South Pacific, is part-time head of the Pacific Centre, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University. His recent research has focused on regional security in the Pacific Islands and the impact of globalization, and he is the editor of a forthcoming collection on Pacific globalization and governance. With Jon Fraenkel, he is also coediting a book on Fiji's 2006 elections.
Lorenz Gonschor was born in Germany, where he studied anthropology, political science, and history. He is currently a graduate student of Pacific Islands studies at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. His main research interests are contemporary political movements in Hawai'i, French Polynesia, and Rapa Nui.
John R Haglelgam is a regent professor at the national campus of the College of Micronesia-FSM in Palikir, where he teaches government, politics, and history of Micronesia. Mr Haglelgam was the second president of the Federated States of Micronesia, from 1987 to 1991. He holds a master of arts in political science from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa as well as a master's in public administration from John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. [End Page 353]
Jon Tikivanotau M Jonassen is professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University, Hawai'i. He has served as director of programs and acting secretary general for the South Pacific Commission, secretary of Foreign Affairs and of Cultural Development for the Cook Islands government, and high commissioner of the Cook Islands to New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea, and Fiji. Jonassen completed his PhD in political science at the University of Hawai'i in 1996 and is interested in a variety of Pacific issues including national politics, governance, regionalism, and cultural plagiarism.
Kelihiano Kalolo was appointed director of the Tokelau Campus of the University of the South Pacific, in Atafu, in 2006; between 1998 and 2004 he was either Tokelau's director of education or a member of the Modern House of Tokelau Project team. After gaining a first-class honors master's in education from the University of Auckland (1996), he began work on a doctorate in anthropology. His research interests include development-related issues, migration, nation building, homeland-diaspora relations, and governance; he hopes to continue his PhD research through the University of the South Pacific.
J Kēhaulani Kauanui is an assistant professor of anthropology and American studies at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. She has coedited special journal issues: "Migrating Feminisms," Women's Studies International Forum (1998); "Native Pacific Cultural Studies on the Edge," The Contemporary Pacific (2001); and "Women Writing Oceania: Weaving the Sails of the Waka," Pacific Studies (2006); and her first book, Long Division: The Politics of Hawaiian Blood and the Question of Sovereignty, is forthcoming from Duke University Press. Her scholarship appears in Social Text, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, American Studies, Comparative American Studies, The Hawaiian Journal of History, Mississippi Review, Amerasia Journal, and American Indian Quarterly.
Lamont Lindstrom is a professor of anthropology at the University of Tulsa. He is the author of Cargo Cult: Strange Stories of Desire from Melanesia and Beyond (University of Hawai'i Press, 1993) and Knowledge and Power in a South Pacific Society (Smithsonian, 1990), and coauthor of Kava: The Pacific Drug (Yale University Press, 1992) and Island Encounters: Black and White Memories of the Pacific War (Smithsonian, 1990). He has also published on...
