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Anna-Karina Hermkens is an academic (lecturer, writer and researcher) who specialises in cultural anthropology, ethnographic art, museum collections and gender studies. She worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in Professor Margaret Jolly’s Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship project, ‘Engendering Persons, Transforming Things: Christianities, Commodities and Individualism in Oceania’ (FL100100196). She is currently working at the Department of Anthropology at Macquarie University, and is a visiting research fellow in Professor Nicholas Thomas’s Pacific Presences Project, at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK. Anna-Karina’s aim is to explore and establish an ‘anthropology-in-art’ practice which fuses academic theory and research on gender and art with her ceramics and painting.
Katherine Lepani is an anthropologist with a research focus on gender and health. She lives in Papua New Guinea and is currently working as gender equity specialist for the PNG Governance Facility, a joint initiative between the Governments of PNG and Australia. She was recently a senior research associate with Professor Margaret Jolly’s Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship project, ‘Engendering Persons, Transforming Things: Christianities, Commodities and Individualism in Oceania’ (FL100100196), 2010–2015. Lepani’s book Islands of Love, Islands of Risk: Culture and HIV in the Trobriands (2012), based on her PhD thesis, is the first full-length ethnography that examines the interface between global and local understandings of gender, sexuality and HIV in a Melanesian cultural context.
Hilde Coffé is an Associate Professor at the Political Science and International Relations Programme at Victoria University of Wellington. Her research interests focus on public opinion, political behaviour and political representation. She has written numerous articles that have been published in leading political science and sociology journals, and has been a visiting fellow at different institutions, including the University of California Berkeley, the University of Sydney and the Åbo Akademi University.
Nic Maclellan works as a journalist and researcher in the Pacific islands. As a broadcaster and correspondent, he has contributed to Islands Business magazine, Radio Australia, The Guardian, Inside Story, The Contemporary Pacific and other regional media and journals.
He has written widely on the environment, development, decolonisation and demilitarisation in the Pacific, and was awarded the 2015 ‘Outstanding Contribution to the Sector’ award by the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID).
He is co-author of other books on Pacific affairs, including La France dans le Pacifique: de Bougainville à Moruroa (Editions La Découverte, Paris), After Moruroa: France in the South Pacific (Ocean Press, New York and Melbourne) and Kirisimasi (PCRC, Suva).
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John G. Reid is a member of the Department of History at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Senior Fellow of the Gorsebrook Research Institute. He is a former co‑editor of Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region, and is the author of Viola Florence Barnes, 1885–1979: A Historian’s Biography (University of Toronto Press, 2005).
Mel Gurtov is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Portland State University, Oregon, USA. He has written numerous books and articles on East Asia and US foreign policy and security issues. He is Senior Editor of Asian Perspective.
Peter Van Ness is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of International Relations, The Australian National University. He has published books on Chinese support for revolution during the Maoist period, market reforms in socialist societies, the human rights debate in Asia, and Asian responses to the Bush Doctrine.
Pierre-Yves Le Meur is a Senior Researcher at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Montpellier, France.
Cameron Moore is an Associate Professor at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS) at the University of Wollongong. He is also an Associate Professor at The Australian National University. He wrote this book while a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of New England (UNE), Armidale, NSW. He has previously been the Academic Master of Robb College at UNE. His publications include the book ADF on the Beat: A Legal Analysis of Offshore Enforcement by the ADF (2004) and other articles and chapters on the Australian Defence Force and maritime security. Between 1996 and 2003, Cameron was a Royal Australian Navy Legal Officer. His legal experience includes service at sea as well as advising at the strategic level on a number of ADF deployments, ongoing fisheries and border protection operations and the Tampa incident. Cameron is still an active Navy reservist. He had a brief deployment to Afghanistan in 2010. He completed a PhD thesis through The Australian National University in 2015 on the Australian Defence Force and the Executive Power.