Members’ Publications

Juliann Anesi. 2026. Tautua: Service and Disability Activism in Samoa. Temple University Press.

Charmaine ‘Ilaiū Talei, Ruth Faleolo, Sam Manuela and Dion Enari (editors). 2026. Untangling Notions of Pacific Wellbeing Across the Trans-Tasman Diaspora. Springer Nature Link.

Salā George Carter, Gregory Fry and Gordon Leau Nanau (editors). 2026. Oceanic diplomacy: Reasserting Indigenous pathways through the contemporary Pacific. Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies.

Natalie Harkin. 2025. Apron-Sorrow / Sovereign-Tea. Wakefield Press.

Mandy Treagus. 2025. The Pacific Tale: Short Fiction from 1890-1950. Palgrave Macmillan Cham.

Katerina Teaiwa, Talei Luscia Mangioni and Nicholas Hoare (editors), with contributions from AAPS members Kim Kruger, Melinda Mann, Imelda Miller, Lisa Hilli,  Ruth (Lute) Faleolo, Pauline Reynolds, Camellia Webb-Gannon and Romitesh Kant. No. 9 (2025). Oceania Lives. Australian Journal of Biography and History.

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

Vaughan Rapatahana, David Eggleton and Mere Taito (editors). 2024. Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand. Massey University Press.

Maebh Long and Matthew Hayward. 2024. The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonization, Radical Campuses and Modernism. Columbia University Press.

Nic Maclellan (editor), with contributions from AAPS members Nic Maclellan, Talei Luscia Mangioni and Marco De Jong. Volume 59, Issue 1 (2024). Resistance and Survival – The Nuclear Era in the Pacific Islands. The Journal of Pacific History.

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.