Contributors
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Jonathan D. Baker is a lecturer and adjunct professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. He earned a PhD in medical anthropology in 2008 based on research examining the controversy over the safety of dietary supplements containing kava. His primary research focuses on cultural and biological dimensions of nutrition, diet, and health and explores the overlap of food and medicine. His secondary specialty is in vector-borne infectious disease.
David Chappell is associate professor of Pacific Islands history at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. He studies the French Pacific territories, especially Kanaky New Caledonia.
Stuart Dawrs is the senior Pacific specialist librarian of the Hawaiian and Pacific Collections, Hamilton Library, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. He holds a master's of library science and a master's of English literature (both from UH-Mānoa), with the latter placing special emphasis on modern Pacific literatures.
Vicente M Diaz is Pohnpeian and Filipino from Guam. He is an associate professor of American Indian studies and anthropology at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign. Diaz's research interests are in Micronesian culture and history, traditional navigation, colonial discourse, critiques of indigeneity, and cultural studies of sports.
Mark Falcous is a senior lecturer in the sociology of sport at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His research focuses on intersections of sport, globalization, media, and cultural politics. He has published in journals including Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Continuum, International Journal of Media and Cultural politics, and Sociology of Sport Journal.
Jon Fraenkel is professor in comparative politics at Victoria University of Wellington. He previously worked with the State, Society, and Governance in Melanesia Program at the Australian National University and at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji. He specializes in Pacific electoral systems, political science, and economic history.
Andrew D. Grainger is a doctoral graduate of the Physical Cultural Studies Program at the University of Maryland. Originally from New Zealand, he has taught classes in the sociocultural and historical analysis of sport, leisure, and recreation at universities in the United States and the United Kingdom. He now lives in Wellington, New Zealand. [End Page 469]
Nic MacLellan works as a journalist and researcher in the Pacific Islands and is a regular contributor to Islands Business magazine and other regional media.
Gordon Leua Nanau is a lecturer in politics at the University of the South Pacific, Fiji, where he teaches contemporary politics in Melanesia and political leadership and supervises postgraduate research students. Dr Nanau holds a PhD from the University of East Anglia (School of International Development), United Kingdom. His research interests revolve around areas of globalization, ethnicity, decentralization, conflicts and peacemaking, land tenure, rural development, and constitutional development.
Joshua I. Newman (PhD, University of Maryland) is associate professor of sport, media, and cultural studies and director of the Center for Physical Cultural Studies at Florida State University. His research and teaching draw on critical pedagogy and cultural studies to interrogate the cultural and political economies of the active body.
Howard Van Trease has over forty years' experience carrying out research in the Pacific. He has taught Pacific history at the University of the South Pacific (USP) and the University of Hawai'i at Hilo; was the founding director of the USP Centre in Vanuatu in 1980 and director of the USP centers in Kiribati and Nauru; and was director of distance and continuing education at usp and the University of Papua New Guinea. His main research interests are land tenure issues and politics in Vanuatu; he currently holds the position of honorary research fellow at the USP Emalus Campus in Port Vila, Vanuatu.
Irene Visser is senior lecturer in Modern English literature in the Department of English Language and Culture at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Her theoretical interests include the interdisciplinary relationships between literature, postcolonial theory, theology, and anthropology. Her recent research themes include trauma theory and postcoloniality, and a current interest is the representation of spirituality and sexuality in Maori and South African literature.
Muridan S. Widjojo, born in Surabaya, Indonesia, has worked at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences in Jakarta since 1993...
