Contributors
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Frédéric Angleviel is professor in contemporary history at the University of New Caledonia and editor of the 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.
Kalissa Alexeyeff is currently a research fellow at the University of Melbourne Department of Anthropology, seconded from her position as lecturer in the Gender Studies Program. She has a doctorate from the Australian National University, with a PhD thesis titled "Dancing from the Heart: Gender, Movement and Sociality in the Cook Islands." Her research interests include gender, sexuality, dance, expressive culture, globalization, and development.
Greg Dvorak grew up in Kwajalein Atoll, the United States, and Japan, working for many years in the media and as a consultant to the Japanese government. He holds a master's degree in Pacific Islands studies and a certificate in international cultural studies (2004) from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, where his thesis about Kwajalein was awarded the prestigious Meller Prize. His research at the Australian National University (PhD, interdisciplinary cross-cultural research, 2008) culminated in both a documentary film and dissertation that deal with issues of colonialism, memory, environment, and identity in the Marshalls.
Nicole George holds the position of John Vincent Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of International Relations at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University. She lectures in the areas of gender, globalization, and development. She is currently preparing a book manuscript from her doctoral research, which examines the domestic, regional, and international activism of Fiji-based women's organizations from the 1960s until the present day.
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. [End Page 287]
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-Mānoa as well as a master's in public administration from John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Brendan Hokowhitu, of Ngāti Pukenga descent, is a senior lecturer in Māori, Pacific, and Indigenous studies at the University of Otago, and has been based in Dunedin, New Zealand, since 2002. His research interests include Māori masculinities, sport, film, and other representations of Māori men in contemporary popular culture. Dr Hokowhitu is currently the program coordinator for the Master of Indigenous Studies at the University of Otago.
Margaret Jolly is professor and head of the Gender Relations Centre in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Australian National University, Canberra. She has written extensively on gender and sexuality in the Pacific. Her books include Women of the Place: Kastom, Colonialism and Gender in Vanuatu (1994); and edited volumes Sites of Desire, Economies of Pleasure: Sexualities in Asia and the Pacific (1997) with Lenore Manderson; Maternities and Modernities: Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences in Asia and the Pacific (1998) with Kalpana Ram; and Birthing in the Pacific: Beyond Tradition and Modernity? (2002) with Vicki Lukere.
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...
