Notes on Contributors


Pauline McKenzie Aucoin completed her doctorate in anthropology at the University of Toronto, and currently teaches at the University of Ottawa.

Lucy de Bruce completed her graduate studies at the University of Technology Sydney and is currently a freelance scholar.

Michael Goddard teaches anthropology at the University of Newcastle, NSW.

Michael Goldsmith teaches anthropology in the Department of Societies and Cultures at the University of Waikato.

Geoffrey Gray is a Research Fellow at the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and Honorary Research Associate in the School of History, Monash University.

Niel Gunson is a Visiting Fellow in the Division of Pacific and Asian History at The Australian National University.

David Hanlon is the Director of the Center for Pacific Islands Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.

Christina Houen is a doctoral student at Curtin University, in the School of Media, Society and Culture, and a research assistant in the Australia Research Institute at Curtin.

Wolfgang Kempf is a lecturer and researcher at the Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Göttingen.

Brij V. Lal is Professor of Pacific and Asian History in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University.

Vicki Luker is Executive Editor of The Journal of Pacific History in the Division of Pacific and Asian History, The Australian National University.

Clive Moore is Professor Pacific and Australian History at the University of Queensland.

Doug Munro is an Adjunct Professor in the School of History at Victoria University of Wellington.

Hank Nelson is an Emeritus Professor in the Division of Pacific and Asian History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University.

Andrew Robson teaches English at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh.

Sr Alaima Talu is currently pursuing graduate studies at the University of the South Pacific.

Deborah van Heekeren is an anthropologist in the School of Humanities at the University of Newcastle.

Christine Weir teaches history at the University of the South Pacific, Suva.

Graeme Whimp is a graduate of the Pacific Studies Programme, Va‘amanū Pasifika, Victoria University of Wellington.

Elizabeth Wood-Ellem is the author of Queen Salote of Tonga: the story of an era 1900-1965, editor of Songs and Poems of Queen Salote and of Tonga and the Tongans: heritage and identity. She is an honorary senior fellow in the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne.