Contributors
- Contributors
brian t alofaituli is a senior lecturer in the Postgraduate Development Studies Programme at the National University of Samoa’s Centre for Samoan Studies. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Hawai‘i–Manoa (uhm), an MA in Pacific Studies from uhm’s Center for Pacific Islands Studies, and an MA in theology from Fuller Theological Seminary. His main research interests are Pacific church history, cultural heritage, and Pacific Islands migration.
michael lujan bevacqua, PhD (Familian Kabesa yan Bittot), taught Guam history and Chamoru language at the University of Guam for ten years and helped found its Chamorro studies program, the only one of its kind in the world. With his brother Jack, he runs a creative collection called The Guam Bus, which publishes Chamoru-language books, comics, and learning materials (www.theguambus.com). He hosts a weekly podcast for the group Independent Guåhan called Fanachu!
elizabeth (isa) ua ceallaigh bowman, PhD, has been a passionate advocate and activist on the issues of sexual harassment and Indigenous rights since her experiences at the University of Guam, where she was an assistant professor from 2012–2018. She has collaborated frequently with Michael Lujan Bevacqua, most recently on their essay “I Tano’ i Chamorro/Chamorro Land: Situating Sustainabilities through Spatial Justice and Cultural Perpetuation” in Sustainability: Approaches to Environmental Justice and Social Power (New York University Press, 2018). She entered politics after leaving academia and continues to work toward justice.
peter clegg is an associate professor in politics and head of the Department of Social Sciences at the University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom. He was formerly a visiting research fellow at both kitlv/Royal Netherlands Institute of South East Asian and Caribbean Studies in Leiden, The Netherlands, and the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (salises), University of the West Indies, Jamaica. His main research interests focus on the international political economy of the Caribbean and contemporary developments within the British Overseas Territories.
jack corbett is a professor of politics at the University of Southampton. His current research projects include an Australian Research Council–funded book on the participation of small states in international organizations and a British Academy–funded book on secession in small island states.
john cox is an honorary associate in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at La Trobe University. His prize-winning ethnographic work on middle-class financial and moral aspiration is now published as a monograph: Fast Money Schemes: Hope and Deception in Papua New Guinea (Indiana UniversityPress,2018). John’s work critically examines the politics of development in the Pacific. He has also worked with emerging scholars from Fiji on the social, political, and religious implications of disasters and climate change. John is currently researching the social dimensions of climate adaptation in Melanesia as a consultant to the World Bank.
zaldy dandan studied broadcast journalism at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines and has written and/or edited for the Philippine Daily Globe, Manila Standard, and the Manila Times. He is the editor of Marianas Variety, the CNMI’s oldest newspaper. His book of poems, We’ll Kiss Like It’s Air and We’re Running Out of It (2017), book of short stories, Die! Bert! Die! (2017), and novel, How I Learned What Really (Probably) Happened to Amelia Earhart (2018), are available on Amazon.com.
adriano favole is a professor of cultural anthropology in the Department of Cultures, Politics and Society at the University of Turin. He has been a visiting professor at the University of New Caledonia and the University of Reunion Island. He carried out fieldwork in East Futuna, New Caledonia, La Réunion, and other European Union overseas countries and territories. His most recent book is L’Europa d’oltremare (Raffaello Cortina, 2020). He is the author, with Lara Giordana, of “Islands of Islands: Responses to the Centre-Periphery Fractal Model in East Futuna (Wallis and Futuna) and the Belep Islands (New Caledonia)” (Island Studies Journal 13[1], 2018).
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...
