Contributors
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holly m barker has an MA in international education and a PhD in anthropology from American University, and she holds a joint appointment at the University of Washington (uw) as the curator for Oceanic and Asian culture at the Burke Museum and principal lecturer in the anthropology department. Her research interests include decolonizing education and museums through student- and community-directed inquiry and research and nuclear justice issues in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI). In addition to her uw positions, Holly currently serves as a commissioner on the RMI National Nuclear Commission.
volker boege is a peace researcher and historian, an honorary research fellow at the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland, codirector of the Peace and Conflict Studies Institute Australia in Brisbane, and a senior research fellow at the Toda Peace Institute, Tokyo. His main fields of work are post-conflict peacebuilding and state formation, and environmental degradation and conflict; his main regional area of expertise is Oceania. He has published numerous journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, and books on peace and conflict studies as well as on German contemporary history.
mathias chauchat is a professor of public law at the University of New Caledonia and an expert on the legal and constitutional complexities that govern the French territory’s institutions and statutes.
joseph daniel foukona is a law lecturer at the University of the South Pacific, School of Law, Emalus Campus in Port Vila, Vanuatu. He teaches property law, administrative law, Pacific land tenure, equity and trust law, and intellectual property. His research interests are law and development, land tenure issues, climate change and relocation/resettlement, land law and history, South Pacific legal systems, property law, and equity and trust law.
jessica hardin is an assistant professor at Rochester Institute of Technology. She holds a PhD in anthropology from Brandeis University. She is the author of the book Faith and the Pursuit of Health: Cardiometabolic Disorders in Samoa (Rutgers University Press, 2018) and coeditor of the volume Reconstructing Obesity: The Meaning of Measures and the Measure of Meanings (Berghahn Books, 2013).
budi hernawan is a political anthropologist with research interests in peace-building, human rights, and the anthropology of violence in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, especially Papua where he worked and lived for twelve years. He teaches anthropology at Driyarkara School of Philosophy in Jakarta. He was a visiting fellow at the Australian National University (anu) and the University of Melbourne as well as a postdoctoral fellow at anu and at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (kitlv). His publications include Torture and Peacebuilding in Indonesia: The Case of Papua (Routledge, 2018) and “Why Does Indonesia Kill Us? Political Assassination of knpb Activists in Papua” (Kyoto Review 21, March 2017).
christina ting kwauk is a fellow at the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. She holds a PhD in comparative and international development education from the University of Minnesota, an MA in social sciences from the University of Chicago, and a BS in psychology from Sewanee: The University of the South.
brij v lal, now in early dotage, is an emeritus professor of the Australian National University. He is retired but is not the retiring type. Off the academic treadmill, he writes creative nonfiction, his latest in this genre being “Road from Mr Tulsi’s Store: Stories from Fiji” in Turnings: Fiji Factions (anu Press, 2013). A more sombre footnote-laden scholarly tome is Levelling Wind: Remembering Fiji (anu Press, 2019). Banned for life from his native Fiji for stubbornly defending the values of democracy and free speech against the onslaught of military coups, four in twenty years, he refuses to be defined or derailed by exile and relishes the “sad wisdom of remembrance.”
michael leach is a professor in politics and international relations at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. He has researched and published widely on the politics and history of Timor-Leste, including, most recently, Nation-Building and National Identity in Timor-Leste (Routledge, 2017). He is also cofounder of the Timor-Leste Studies Association (http://www.tlstudies.org/).
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