Members’ Publications

Anna Kent. 2024. Mandates and Missteps: Australian Government Scholarships to the Pacific – 1948- to 2018. Australian National University Press.

Rebecca Monson. 2023. Gender, Property and Politics in the Pacific: Who Speaks for Land? Cambridge University Press.

Christine Taitano DeLisle. 2022. Placental Politics: CHamoru Women, White Womanhood, and Indigeneity under U.S. Colonialism in Guam. The University of North Carolina Press.

Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa, compiled and edited by Katerina Teaiwa, April K. Henderson, and Terence Wesley-Smith. 2022. Sweat and Salt Water: Selected Works. University of Hawaii Press.

Camellia Webb-Gannon. 2022. Morning Star Rising: The Politics of Decolonization in West Papua. University of Hawaii Press.

Alice Te Punga Somerville. 2022. Always Italicise: How to write while colonised. Auckland University Press.

Talei Luscia Mangioni and Katerina Teaiwa (editors). Sustenance: Decolonial recipes for wellbeing, self and community care in the academy. Decolonial Possibilities: School of Culture, History and Language.

Kalissa Alexeyeff, Nicholas A. Bainton, Debra McDougall and John Cox. 2021. Unequal Lives: Gender, Race and Class in the Western Pacific. ANU Press.

Victoria Stead and Jon Altman (editors). 2019. Labour Lines and Colonial Power: Indigenous and Pacific Islander Labour Mobility in Australia. ANU Press.

Clive Moore. 2017. Making Mala: Malaita in Solomon Islands, 1870s–1930s. ANU Press

Nic Maclellan. 2017. Grappling with the Bomb: Britain’s Pacific H-bomb tests. ANU Press.

Corrin, Jennifer and Don Paterson 2016. Introduction to South Pacific Law. Forth Edition. –  Special Issue of the Journal of South Pacific Law, dedicated to the late Guy Powles.

Stead, Victoria C. 2016. Becoming Landowners: Entanglements of Custom and Modernity in Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste, University of Hawai’i Press.

Banivanua Mar, Tracey. 2016. Decolonisation and the Pacific: Indigenous Globalisation and the Ends of Empire, Cambridge University Press.

Corrin, Jennifer and David Newton Bamford (eds). 2016. Courts and Civil Procedure in the South Pacific, 2nd edition, Intersentia Press.

Kalissa Alexeyeff and John Taylor (eds). 2016. Touring Pacific Cultures. ANU Press.

Hermkens, Anna-Karina, Rachel Morgain and John Taylor (eds). 2015. Gender and Person in Oceania, Special Issue of Oceania  85(1):1-131.

Nicholas Halter will be conferred in July 2015 for his PhD titled ‘To see with their own eyes’: Australian travel writing on the Pacific Islands c.1880-1941.

Barker, J. and Hermkens, A. 2015 (forthcoming). The Mothers Union Goes on Strike Again. In The Gender of the Church. Edited by A. Eriksen and M. MacCarthy. Special issue of The Australian Journal of Anthropology.

Dick. T. 2015. ‘Chorographing The Vanuatu Aquapelago’, Shima: The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures 9(2): 1-22.

Hermkens, A. 2015. ‘Mannelijkheid en Vrouwelijkheid Verweven: Patrilineaire Identiteit door vrouwenhanden gemaakt.’ In Mythen van gender: Essays voor Willy Jansen. [‘Masculinity and femininity intertwined: Patrilineal identity made by women’s hands.’ In: Myths of Gender. Essays for Willy Jansen.] Edited by Stefan Dudink and Liedeke Plate. Nijmegen: Uitgevery Vantilt, pp. 203-209

Hermkens, A. 2015. ‘Dynamics of Barkcloth and Identity among the Maisin of PNG.’ In Made in Oceania: Proceedings of the International Symposium on the social and cultural meanings of Oceanic tapa. Edited by P. P. Mesenhöller. UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 15-28.

Hermkens, A. 2015. Marian Movements and Secessionist Warfare in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. In G. Trompf (ed) New Religious movements in the Pacific. Special Issue Nova Religio 18(4): 35-54.

Hermkens, A. 2015. Mediations of Cloth: Tapa and Personhood among the Maisin in Papua New Guinea. In A. Hermkens, J. Taylor and R. Morgain (eds) Gender and Person in Oceania. Oceania 85(1):10-23.

Hermkens, A. 2015. Hermkens, A. 2015. The Gendered Politics of Witchcraft and Sorcery Accusations among the Maisin of Papua New Guinea (PNG). The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 16(1): 36-54.

Hermkens, A. 2015. Book review of ‘Treasured Possessions’ by H. Geismar. Pacific Affairs 88(1), 236-238.

Jolly, Margaret. 2015. ‘Braed praes in Vanuatu: Both gifts and commodities. In Gender and Person in Oceania, ed. Anna-Karina Hermkens, Rachel Morgain and John Taylor. Special Issue of Oceania 85(1): 63–78.

Latai, Latu . 2015. ‘Changing covenants in Samoa? From brothers and sisters to husbands and wives?” in Gender and Person in Oceania, ed. Anna-Karina Hermkens, John Taylor and Rachel Morgain. Special issue, Oceania 85(1): 92–104.

Lepani, Katherine. 2015. ‘“I am still a young girl if I want”: Relational personhood and individual autonomy in the Trobriand Islands.’ Special Issue, Gender and Personhood, ed. John Taylor, Rachel Morgain and Anna-Karina Hermkens. Oceania 85(1): 51–62.

 McAdam, Jane. 2015. ‘The Emerging New Zealand Jurisprudence on Climate Change, Disasters and Displacement’ Migration Studies 3:131–42

Morgain, Rachel and John Taylor. 2015. Transforming relations of gender, person and agency in Oceania. In Anna-Karina Hermkens, John Taylor, Rachel Morgain (eds) Gender and Person in Oceania, Special Issue of Oceania 85(1):1-9.

Morgain, Rachel. 2015.  ‘Break down these walls’: space, relations and hierarchy in Fijian evangelical Christianity. In Anna-Karina Hermkens, John Taylor, Rachel Morgain (eds) Gender and Person in Oceania, Special Issue of Oceania 85(1):105-118.

Timmer, Jaap. 2015. Building Jerusalem in North Malaita, Solomon Islands. Oceania 85(3): 299-314.

Timmer, Jaap. 2015. Patterns and Iconoclasm in Motion (Review Essay). Journal of Religious and Political Practice 1(1): 92-96.

Timmer, Jaap. 2015. Heirs to Biblical Prophecy: The All Peoples Prayer Assembly in Solomon Islands. Nova Religio 18(4): 16-34 (Awarded the second place prize for the Thomas Robbins Award For Excellence in the Study of New Religious Movements).

Timmer, Jaap. 2015. Being-in-the-Covenant: Reflections on the Crisis of Historicism in North Malaita, Solomon Islands. In Kalpana Ram and Chris Houston (eds), Phenomenology in Anthropology: A Sense of Perspective, pp. 175-194. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Timmer, Jaap. 2015. Papua Coming of Age: The Cycle of Man’s Civilisation and Two Other Papuan Histories. In Martin Slama and Jenny Munro (eds), From “Stone-Age” to “Real-Time”: Exploring Papuan Temporalities, Mobilities, and Religiosities, pp. 95-124. Canberra: ANU Press.

Douglas, Bronwen. 2014. Science, Voyages, and Encounters in Oceania 1511-1850. Palgrave Macmillan.

Looser, Diane. 2014. Remaking Pacific Pasts: History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Theater from Oceania. University of Hawai’i Press.

Stewart, Christine. 2014. Name, Shame and Blame: Criminalising Consensual Sex in Papua New Guinea. Canberra: ANU Press.

Teaiwa, Katerina. 2014. Consuming Ocean Island: Stories of People and Phosphate from Banaba. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Besnier, N and Alexeyeff, K. (eds.). 2014. Gender on the Edge: Transgender, Gay and Other Pacific Islanders. University of Hawaii Press.

Choi, Hyaeweol and Margaret Jolly (eds). 2014. Divine Domesticities: Christian Paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific. Canberra: ANU Press.

Close-Barry, Kirsty. 2014. ‘A Mission Divided: Race and Culture in Fiji’s Methodist Mission’. Deakin University.

Dick, T. 2014. ‘Vanuatu water music and the Mwerlap diaspora: music, migration, tradition and tourism’, AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 10(4): 392-407.

Douglas, Bronwen. 2014. Voyagers, Toponyms, and Local Presence in the Fifth Part of the World, 1500-1700, Journal of Historical Geography 45: 12-24.

Flexner, J. L. 2014. Historical Archaeology, Contact, and Colonialism in Oceania. Journal of Archaeological Research 22(1): 43-87.

George, N. 2014. “Lost in Translation: Human Rights, Gender Violence and Women’s Capabilities in Fiji”, in Aletta Biersack, Martha Macintyre and Margaret Jolly (eds), Gender Violence and Human Rights in the Western Pacific, ANU Press (accepted).

George, N. 2014. Hot Conflict/ Slow Violence: Women Peace and Security in the Pacific Islands. Australian Journal of International Affairs (A). Vol. 67, No.3 (in press).

George, N. 2014 “In Sickness and in Health: Evolving trends in Gay Rights Advocacy in Fiji.” In Niko Besnier and Kalissa Alexeyeff (eds) Gender on the Edge: Transgender, Gay, and Other Pacific Islanders, University of Hawaii Press, pp 293 – 322.

Hermkens, A. 2014. The Materiality of Missionization in Collingwood Bay, Papua New Guinea. In Divine Domesticities: Christian Paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific. Edited by H. Choi and M. Jolly. Canberra: ANU Press, pp. 349-380.

Hermkens, A. 2014. Book review of ‘Christian Politics’ by M. Tomlinson and D. McDougall (eds.). The Contemporary Pacific 26 (2): 576-579.

Jolly, Margaret and Hyaeweol Choi. 2014. ‘Paradoxes of domesticity: Missionary encounters in the making of christian homes in Asia and the Pacific.’ In Divine Domesticities: Paradoxes of Christian Modernities in Asia and the Pacific, ed. Hyaeweol Choi and Margaret Jolly. Canberra: ANU Press, pp. 1–25.

Jolly, Margaret. 2014. ‘A saturated history of Christianity and cloth in Oceania.’ In Divine Domesticities: Paradoxes of Christian Modernities in Asia and the Pacific, ed. Hyaeweol Choi and Margaret Jolly. Canberra: ANU Press, pp. 429–54.

Lakisa, D., Adair, D., and Taylor, T. 2014.‘Pasifika Diaspora and the Changing Face of Australian Rugby League.’ The Contemporary Pacific 26 (2): 347-367.

Latai, Latu 2014. ‘From open fale to mission houses: Negotiating the boundaries of domesticity in Samoa,’ in Hyaeweol Choi and Margaret Jolly (eds), Divine Domesticities: Christian Paradoxes in Asia and the Pacific. Canberra, ANU Press, pp. 299–324. Online: http://press.anu.edu.au?p=298891.

McAdam, Jane. 2014. ‘Historical Cross-Border Relocations in the Pacific: Lessons for Planned Relocations in the Context of Climate Change’, 49 Journal of Pacific History, 301–27.

Maclellan, Nic. 2014. The Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 2013, The Contemporary Pacific, 26(2): 460-475.

Morgain, Rachel. 2014. Living Water: Christian theologies and interethnic relations in Fiji. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 15(1): 65-84.

Powles, Guy. 2014. The Tongan Monarchy and the Constitution: Political Reform in a Traditional Context, State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program of the School of International, Political & Strategic Studies in the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific, Canberra, Discussion Paper 2014 No 9.

Stewart, Christine. 2014. ‘On the edge of understanding: Non-heteronormative sexuality in Papua New Guinea’, in Gender on the Edge Transgender, Gay, and Other Pacific Islanders, ed. Niko Besnier and Kalissa Alexeyeff. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, pp. 323–46.

Stewart, Christine. 2014. ‘“Not a Misis”, in Australians in Papua New Guinea 1960–1975, ed. Ceridwen Spark, Seumas Spark and Christine Twomey. St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, pp. 248–61.

Teaiwa, Katerina. 2014. ‘Re-framing Oceania: Lessons from Pacific Studies,’ in Hilary E. Kahn (ed.) Framing the Global: entry points for research, Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Timmer, Jaap. 2014. Review of Keir Martin, 2013, The Death of the Big Men and the Rise of the Big Shots: Custom and Conflict in East New Britain. New York and Oxford: Berghahn. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 15(5): 482-484.

Timmer, Jaap. 2014. Review of Rupert Stasch, 2009, Society of Others: kinship and mourning in a West Papuan place. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. The Journal of Pacific History 49(2): 242-243.

Timmer, Jaap. 2014. Review of Muridan Widjojo, 2013, Pemberontakan Nuku: Persekutuan Lintas Budaya di Maluku Papua Sekitar 1780-1810. Depok: Komunitas Bambu. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 170: 379-421

Timmer, Jaap. 2014. Review of Leontine Visser (ed.), 2012, Governing New Guinea: An oral history of Papuan administrators, 1950–1990. Anthropological Forum 25(1): 112-114.

Hermkens, A. 2013. Engendering Objects: Dynamics of Barkcloth and Gender among the Maisin of Papua New Guinea. Leiden: Sidestone Press.

Powles, Guy. 2013. Political and Constitutional Reform Opens the Door: The Kingdom of Tonga’s Path to Democracy. 2nd ed. Suva, University of the South Pacific Press.

Charlesworth, Hilary and Margaret Jolly (eds). 2013. Grounding Travelling Concepts: Dialogues with Sally Engle Merry about Gender and Justice, Special Issue of Intersections, 33.

Fisher, Daniel and Jaap Timmer (eds). 2013. Becoming Like the State. Special Issue of Oceania 83(3).

True, J, Niner, S, and Parashar and George, N. 2013. Women’s political participation in Asia-Pacific. Report for United Nations Department of Political Affairs. New York: Social Science Research Council Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum.

Apis, B., Aranka, J., Asiota, B., Bafeo, M., Bekio, J., Bore, W., Curry, G.N., Hamago, M.R., Inu, S.M., Kiup, E., Koczberski, G., Lummani, J., Nailina, R., Natera, K., Peter, E., Pundu, J., Togonave, P. and Webb, M. 2013. The use of activity diaries for understanding the daily lives of farmers and their livelihood choices.  In G. Hickey (ed.), Socio-economic Agricultural Research in Papua New Guinea. ACIAR Proceedings 141, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra, pp. 36-47.

Crick, Florence,  Johanna Wandel, Nic Maclellan and Katharine Vincent. 2013. “Climate change adaptation pathways: insights from case studies in South Africa, Canada and the Pacific Islands” in Jean Palutikof et al (eds): Climate Adaptation Futures, John Wiley & Sons. pp. 242-253.

Crick, Florence,  Johanna Wandel, Nic Maclellan and Katharine Vincent. 2013. “Climate change adaptation pathways: insights from case studies in South Africa, Canada and the Pacific Islands” in Jean Palutikof et al (eds): Climate Adaptation Futures, John Wiley & Sons. pp. 242-253.

Douglas, Bronwen. 2014. Religion. In David Armitage and Alison Bashford (eds) Pacific Histories: Ocean, Land, People, Palgrave Macmillan.

Flexner, J. L. 2013. Mission archaeology in Vanuatu: Preliminary findings, problems, and prospects. Australasian Historical Archaeology 31: 14-24.

George, N. 2013. Beyond Cultural Constraint: Gender, Security and Participation in the Pacific Islands. In S. Davies et al (eds.) Responsibility to Protect and Women, Peace and Security: Aligning the Protection Agendas, Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, pp. 155-180.

George, N. 2013. Gender in the Pacific Islands in N. Georgiou and C. Hawkesly (eds). The Globalization of World Politics: Case Studies from Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific, Oxford University Press, Australia. pp. 59-62.

Hermkens, A . 2013. Like Moses who led his people to the Promised Land: Nation- and State building in Bougainville. In D. Fischer and J. Timmer (eds) Becoming like the State. Special Issue of Oceania 38(3): 192-207.

Hermkens, A . 2013. “Raits blong Mere?” Framing Human Rights and Gender in Marau. In H. Charlesworth and M. Jolly (eds) Grounding Travelling Concepts: Dialogues with Sally Engle Merry about Gender and Justice,  Special Issue of Intersections 33.

Hermkens, A. 2013. Fabrics of Life: Barkcloth from Lake Sentani and Collingwood Bay. In P. Mesenhöller und O. Lueb (eds) Made in Oceania Tapa – Kunst und Lebenswelten. Cologne/Koln: Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, pp.130-143.

Hermkens, A. 2013. Unfolding the cloth. A History of Lake Sentani and Humboldt Bay objects. In L. Bolton, N. Thomas, E. Bonshek, J. Adams and B. Burt. (eds) Melanesia: Art and Encounter,  London: British Museum Press, pp.160-65.

Hermkens, A. 2013. The Power of Mary in Papua New Guinea. In Hilary Callan, Brian Street and Simon Underdown (eds) Introductory Readings in Anthropology, New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books in association with the Royal Anthropological Institute, pp. 287-294.

Herr, Richard A. 2013. The Frontiers of Pacific Islands Regionalism: Charting the Boundaries of Identity, Asia Pacific World 4(1): 36–55.

Herr, Richard A. 2013. The security outlook for Melanesia, United Service, 64 (2): 9-13.

Herr, Richard A. 2013. “A Pacific Islands’ View of the Pivot to Asia: Can Washington Develop an Effective Regional Strategy?” In Ming-Hsien Wong (ed), Managing Regional Security Agenda, Taipei: Tamkang University Press, pp. 1-27.

Koczberski, G., Curry, G.N., Rogers, D., Germis, E., & Koia. M. 2013. Developing land use agreements in commodity cash crop production that meet the needs of landowners and smallholders.  In G. Hickey (ed.) Socio-economic Agricultural Research in Papua New Guinea. ACIAR Proceedings 141, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra, pp.94-100.

Jolly, Margaret. 2013.  Epilogue. Agreeing to Disagree about Kago. In Marc Tabani and Marcellin Abong (eds) Kago, Kastom and Kalja: Old Theories and New Realities in the Study of Melanesian Movements, pp. 187-212.

Jolly, Margaret. 2013.   Intersections of Gender and Law in Asia and the Pacific with Hilary Charlesworth. In Hilary Charlesworth and Margaret Jolly (eds) Grounding Travelling Concepts: Dialogues with Sally Engle Merry about Gender and Justice, Special Issue of Intersections, 33.

Maclellan, Nic. 2013. The Region in Review: International Issues and Events, 2012. The Contemporary Pacific, 25(2): 352-368.

Morgain, Rachel. 2013. Ethnographic Visions of Hope and Global Change. Review essay of ‘Henrietta Moore, Still Life: Hopes, Desires and Satisfactions, Cambridge: Polity (2011)’. The Australian Journal of Anthropology 24(1): 115-120.

Morgain, Rachel. 2013. Review of My God, My Land: Interwoven Pathways of Christianity in Fiji by Jacqueline Ryle. In The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 14(3): 280-282.

Steel, Frances. 2013. Lines Across the Sea: Trans-Pacific passenger shipping in the age of steam. In Robert Aldrich and Kirsten McKenzie (eds) The Routledge History of Western Empires, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 315-29.

Steel, Frances. 2013. An Ocean of Leisure: Early cruise tours of the Pacific in an age of empire, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 14(2).

Steel, Frances. 2013. ‘Cruising New Zealand’s West Coast Sounds: Fiord tourism in the Tasman World, c.1870–1910,’ Australian Historical Studies, 44(3), 361-81.

Teaiwa, Katerina. 2013. Postcolonial Cultural Identities in the Pacific. In Charles Hawksley and Nicole Georgeou (eds) The Globalization of World Politics: case studies from Australia, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific, Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

Timmer, Jaap. 2013. The Sovereign and the Banyan. Review article of ‘Danilyn Rutherford, 2012, Laughing at Leviathan: Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua,’ and ‘Eben Kirksey, 2012, Freedom in Entangled Worlds: West Papua and the Architecture of Global Power.’ Journal of Pacific History 48(3): 330-336.

Timmer, Jaap. 2013. The Threefold Logic of Papua-Melanesia: Constitution-writing in the Margins of the Indonesian Nation-State. Oceania 83(3): 158-174.