Contributors
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Niko Besnier is professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. The University of Hawai'i Press published his latest book, Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics, in 2009, and a new book manuscript, "On the Edge of the Global: Modern Anxieties in a Polynesian Island Nation," is currently under review.
David Chappell is associate professor of Pacific Islands history at the University of Hawai'i, Mānoa. For the past decade, he has been focusing his studies on the French Pacific territories, especially Kanaky New Caledonia.
Vicente M Diaz is associate professor and director of the Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies unit in the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Repositioning the Missionary: Rewriting the Histories of Colonialism, Native Catholicism, and Indigeneity in Guam (forthcoming), and also wrote and directed the video documentary, Sacred Vessels: Navigating Tradition and Identity in Guam (1997). A key figure in the field of Native Pacific cultural studies, Diaz is also involved in traditional seafaring in the Marianas and the Central Caroline Islands.
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. After his master's study at the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (2004), he went on to earn his PhD at the Australian National University in Canberra (2008). He is currently a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science postdoctoral fellow at the University of Tokyo, working on both a book and documentary film that deal with colonialism, war, memory, and identity between Japan and the Marshall Islands.
Ben Finney is a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Hawai'i's Mānoa campus. He has researched Polynesian voyaging ethnographically and experientially; studied Tahitians and Papua New Guineans as they respectively struggled to survive France's nuclear follies and profit from the world's taste for coffee; spent time at NASA, Russia's Star City, and France's International Space University thinking anthropologically about humanity in space; and explored the art of surfing from Austronesian beginnings to its elaboration in ancient Hawai'i and subsequent global spread. [End Page 411]
Jon Fraenkel is a senior research fellow with the State, Society, and Governance in Melanesia Program at the Australian National University. He previously worked for eleven years at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji. He specializes in Pacific electoral systems, political science, and economic history.
David Hanlon has returned to the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa's Department of History after six years as director of the Center for Pacific Islands Studies. A former editor of The Contemporary Pacific, he is the author of Upon a Stone Altar: A History of the Island of Pohnpei to 1890 and Remaking Micronesia: Discourses Over Development in a Pacific Territory, 1944–1982, and is currently writing a biography of Tosiwo Nakayama, the first president of the Federated States of Micronesia. His research interests include culture contact, missionization, development, Micronesia, and ethnographic approaches to the study of Pacific pasts.
Judith Humbert was the graduate assistant for the publications program of the Center for Pacific Islands Studies at the University of Hawai'i, Mānoa, 2005–2006. During that time she worked on several projects, including the groundwork for the index for volumes 11–20 of this journal. Since completing her master's degree in Pacific Islands studies in 2008, Judith's research interests have focused on relationships among nature, spirituality, and women's journeys.
Solomon Kantha is a project assistant with the International Organization for Migration, based in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Kantha holds a master's degree in political science from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. His areas of interest are international relations, international political economy, comparative politics, and public policy.
Roselyn Lenga is a teacher from Solomon Islands. She holds a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of the South Pacific and is currently completing a postgraduate diploma in education. Mrs Lenga maintains a keen interest in the political issues and events in Solomon Islands.
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