Staff
An alumna of and former faculty member at the Center for Pacific Islands Studies (CPIS) at the University of Hawaiʻi–Mānoa and the first woman to serve as editor of The Contemporary Pacific, Professor Katerina Teaiwa is an interdisciplinary scholar, artist, and award-winning teacher of Banaban, I-Kiribati, and African American heritage born and raised in Fiji. She is a professor of Pacific studies in the School of Culture, History and Language at the Australian National University’s College of Asia and the Pacific and a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Professor Teaiwa’s research is deeply interdisciplinary and Pacific centered; she engages histories of British, Australian, and New Zealand phosphate mining in the central Pacific by interweaving dance, archival and historical research, mixed-media arts, and storytelling.
Associate Editor Joseph H Genz is a professor of anthropology and co-coordinator of the Pacific Islands Studies program at University of Hawai‘i–Hilo. Inspired by his volunteer service in the US Peace Corps in Sāmoa, he earned his PhD in anthropology at University of Hawai‘i–Mānoa (2008) by co-facilitating a collaborative project on the revitalization of voyaging in the Marshall Islands. The resulting book, Breaking the Shell: Voyaging from Nuclear Refugees to People of the Sea in the Marshall Islands (2018), was published by University of Hawai‘i Press. Ongoing projects with graduate and undergraduate students include conducting oral histories of seafaring for climate resilience and exploring meanings of success for Pacific Islander students pursuing majors in the STEM fields. Dr Genz teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses including cultural anthropology, Indigenous issues in contemporary Oceania, and oral history research. He previously served as the book and media reviews editor for The Contemporary Pacific (2021–2026).
Associate Editor Monica C LaBriola holds degrees in Pacific Islands history (PhD), Pacific Islands studies (MA), and peace and conflict studies (BA). Her current research emphasizes oral traditions, women and gender, cross-cultural encounters, and historiography in Micronesia, particularly the Marshall Islands. Her forthcoming monograph, Our Eyes Advise Us: Marshall Islanders Navigating Disease, Climate, and Colonial Violence in the Nineteenth Century, will be published by University of Hawai‘i Press in 2026. Her other publications include “Marshallese Women and Oral Traditions: Navigating a Future for Pacific History,” which won the inaugural Professor Brij V Lal Award for the best paper published in The Contemporary Pacific in 2023. Dr LaBriola’s dedication to teaching has been recognized with a UH Board of Regents Medal for Excellence in Teaching (2023) and a Frances Davis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2017). She previously served as the journal’s associate editor (2019–2021) and as series editor for the Teaching Oceania series (2016–2019), also published by the Center for Pacific Islands Studies.
Candice Steiner is the journal’s managing editor. She has an MA in ethnomusicology and certificate in Pacific Islands studies from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Her research interests include the music and dance of Tokelau and its diaspora and Pacific Islands representation in film music. Prior to becoming managing editor in 2019, she served as CPIS’s graduate assistant for publications from 2010 to 2016 and cofounded the center’s student writing program, Write Oceania, with former managing editor Jan Rensel.
Board
Director of the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai’i: Alexander Mawyer
Editorial Board
Editor: Katerina Teaiwa, School of Culture, History and Language, Australian National University
Associate Editor: Joseph H Genz, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai’i–Hilo
Associate Editor: Monica C LaBriola, Department of History, University of Hawai‘i
Oceania in Review Editor: Lorenz Gonschor, School of Law and Social Sciences, University of the South Pacific, Fiji
Book and Media Reviews Editor: Foley Pfalzgraf, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i
Arts Editor: Nina Tonga, Department of Art and Art History, University of Hawai‘i
Resources Editor: Stuart Dawrs, Pacific Collection, Hamilton Library, University of Hawai’i
Managing Editor: Candice Steiner, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai’i
Members
Joseph D Foukona, Department of History, University of Hawai‘i
Mary Hattori, Affiliate Graduate Faculty, University of Hawai’i and Chaminade University of Honolulu
Vilsoni Hereniko, Academy for Creative Media, University of Hawai’i
Kerri A Inglis, Department of History, University of Hawai‘i–Hilo
Tarcisius Kabutaulaka, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i
Sa‘iliemanu Lilomaiava-Doktor, Division of Humanities, University of Hawai‘i–West O‘ahu
Lola Quan Bautista, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai’i
Noenoe Silva, Department of Political Science, University of Hawai’i
Tammy Tabe, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i
Ron Vave, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i
Julianne Walsh, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai’i
Terence Wesley-Smith, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i
Correspondents
Keith Camacho, University of California–Los Angeles, United States
Vicente M Diaz, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, United States
Gerard Finin, Cornell University, United States
Stewart Firth, The Australian National University
Hilda Heine, President, Republic of the Marshall Islands
Edvard Hviding, University of Bergen, Norway
Nic Maclellan, Researcher and Journalist, Melbourne
Cluny Macpherson, Massey University at Albany, New Zealand
Selina Tusitala Marsh, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Mac Marshall, University of Iowa, United States
Mālama Meleiseā, National University of Samoa
Margaret Mutu, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Margaret Critchlow Rodman, University of York, Canada
Konai Helu Thaman, University of the South Pacific, Fiji
Eric Waddell, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
Designers
Barbara Pope is responsible for TCP’s interior design and format and cover design for 1(1–2)–15(1).
Stacey Leong Mills has provided the journal’s cover design from issue 15(2) through 32(2).
Subsequent covers were provided by Aaron Lee (33[1] through 34[2]) and Donovan Kūhiō (35[1&2]–37[1]).
Kapa Maker (2004) by Solomon Enos