Alexander Mawyer

Bio

Dr. Alexander Mawyer is Director of the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, Chair of the Department of Pacific Islands Studies and Professor in Pacific Studies at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa (UHM). Dr. Mawyer holds a BA from Amherst College, MAs from UHM and the University of Chicago, and a doctorate in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. Dr. Mawyer’s research interests include language and space in Oceanic linguistics, biocultural indicators and dynamics, multidimensional wellbeing, conservation and sovereignty, and marine resource governance in the Pacific. He served as editor for The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs from 2016 to 2022. He sits on the Board of the University of Hawai’i Press and is a member of the scientific committee of the Maison des sciences de l’Homme du Pacifique and The Rāhui Center, among other board memberships.