Contributors
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mary tuti baker is a PhD candidate in the Political Science Department at the University of Hawai‘i–Mānoa with a special focus on indigenous politics and futures studies. Her research interest is the interface between political discourse and social and cultural practice in the Native Hawaiian movement for independence.
michael lujan bevacqua is an assistant professor of Chamorro language at the University of Guam and serves as the program coordinator for its Chamorro Studies Program. His research deals with studying the effects of colonization on the Chamorro people and theorizing the possibilities for their decolonization. He is a member of the Guam Commission on Decolonization and the Guam Council on the Arts and Humanities Agency.
priya chattier, who completed her PhD in sociology at the Australian National University (anu) in 2008, joined the anu State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program (ssgm) in April 2014 as a Pacific research fellow. Prior to that, she had pioneered and headed the University of the South Pacific’s first-ever gender studies program. Chattier’s work is located at the intersections of academic and activist work on gender equality, women’s economic empowerment, gender relations, Hindu womanhood and Hinduism, and social change in contemporary Fiji and other Pacific Island countries.
lorenz gonschor was born in Germany, where he studied anthropology, political science, and history. He obtained a master’s degree in Pacific Islands studies in 2008 from the University of Hawai‘i–Mānoa with a thesis comparing the institutional history of and future political prospects for Hawai‘i, French Polynesia, and Rapa Nui; he is currently a PhD candidate (abd) in political science at the same institution. His research interests include historical and contemporary governance and politics of Oceania, with a particular focus on Hawai‘i and French Polynesia.
holly l guthrey received her PhD from the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She currently works as a researcher at the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden. Guthrey’s primary research interests are transitional justice, victims of armed conflict, post-conflict reconciliation and peacebuilding, and traditional justice and reconciliation processes. [End Page 277]
lea lani kinikini kauvaka currently works with the Pacific Islands Leadership Program at the East-West Center in Honolulu. She was a lecturer in Pacific studies at the University of the South Pacific in Suva and has been involved with grassroots environmental and heritage issues in Tonga. She completed her master’s in Pacific Islands studies at the University of Hawai‘i–Mānoa and her doctorate at the University of Auckland.
monica c labriola, an assistant professor at the University of Hawai‘i–West O‘ahu, lived and worked in the Marshall Islands from 2001 to 2004 and returned to conduct fieldwork and research in 2005 and 2011. Her PhD dissertation, “Likiep Kapin Iep: Land, Power, and History on a Marshallese Atoll” explores the cultural, epistemological, and historical context surrounding the sale of Likiep Atoll to a Portuguese trader in 1877. She is currently adapting it into a book manuscript that more broadly considers decisions by Marshallese chiefs to sell land to outsiders in the two decades prior to Germany’s annexation of the Marshall Islands in 1885.
kelly g marsh holds a doctorate in cultural heritage studies from Charles Sturt University, Australia, building on her BA in history and anthropology and an MA in Micronesian studies from the University of Guam. Marsh was the former vice chair for the Guam Historic Preservation Review Board. She is active in local cultural and historical efforts such as serving as the chair for the History Subcommittee of the 12th Festival of Pacific Arts, which Guam will host in 2016; teaching History of Guam courses at the University of Guam; and conducting applied research within the Mariana Islands.
sudesh mishra is the author of Diaspora Criticism (2006), and his research papers have appeared in many journals, including New Literary History, Meanjin, Subaltern Studies, Australian Humanities Review, Continuum, Social Text, Borderlands, Emergences, Oxford Literary Review, and the Journal of Pacific History. He has contributed a long entry on diaspora criticism for the second edition of the Oxford...
