
Pacific History Association
About Us
The Pacific History Association promotes research in and the teaching of Pacific History. Established in 1980 at a conference in Martindale Hall, South Australia, the association holds biennial conferences around the Pacific.
The Committee
The PHA's current Committee (2021-23) includes:
President: Safua Akeli Amaama, Head of New Zealand and Pacific Histories and Cultures, Te Papa Museum, New Zealand
Vice-President: Nicholas Halter, The University of the South Pacific, Fiji
Secretary/Treasurer: Adrian Muckle, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Newsletter Editor: Max Quanchi, University of Queensland, Australia
Website Manager: Kirstie Close-Barry, Deakin University, Australia
Conference Convenor: Jonathan Ritchie, Deakin University, Australia
Ordinary Member: Anne Perez Hattori, University of Guam, Guam
Ordinary Member: Anawaite Matadradra, The University of the South Pacific, Fiji
Executive Committee Members are:
Chris Ballard, Australian National University, Australia
Judy Bennett, University of Otago, New Zealand
Ian Conrich, The British University in Egypt/University of Vienna
Marco De Jong, Oxford University, UK
Robert Dewey, DePauw University, USA
Helen Gardner, Deakin University, Australia
Pei-Yi Guo, Academica Sinica, Taiwan
Kerri Inglis, University of Hawai'i, Hilo, USA
Myjolynne Kim, Australian National University, Australia
Monica LaBriola, University of Hawaii-West O'ahu, USA
Jacqui Leckie, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Louise Mataia-Milo, National University of Samoa, Samoa
Serge Tcherkezoff, Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Oceanie, Marseille, France
Morgan Tuimaleali'ifano, University of the South Pacific, Fiji
James Viernes, University of Hawai'i-Manoa, USA
Fanny Wonu Weys, National Museum of World Cultures, Netherlands
Nicholas Thomas, University of Cambridge, UK
Kate Stevens, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Frances Steel, University of Otago, New Zealand
Matt Cavert, University of Hawai'i-Manoa, USA
Deborah Lee-Talbot, Deakin University, Australia
Joseph Foukona, University of Hawai'i-Manoa, USA
Monica LaBriola, University of Hawai'i-Manoa, USA
Professional Affiliations
The PHA has a number of links to other associations and organisations that support scholarship on the Pacific. Links to these can be found below:
Australian Association for Pacific Studies (AAPS): http://pacificstudies.org.au/
Pacific Manuscripts Bureau (PAMBU): http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/pambu/catalogue/index.php/
Journal of Pacific History (JPH): https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjph20/current