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 Executive 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
Website Manager: Kirstie Close, 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
PHA Committee Members are:
Matt Cavert, University of Hawai‘i - West-Oʻahu
Ian Conrich, Stockholm University
Robert Dewey, DePauw University
Joe Foukona, University of Hawai‘i - Manoa
Pei-Yi Guo, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Kerri Inglis, University of Hawai‘i - Hilo
Monica LaBriola, University of Hawai‘i - Manoa
Jacqui Leckie, Victoria University of Wellington
Louise Mataia-Milo, National University of Sāmoa
Frances Steel, University of Otago
Kate Stevens, University of Waikato
Deborah-Lee Talbot, Deakin University
Serge Tcherkezoff, CREDO, Marseille
Nicholas Thomas, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Fanny Wonu Veys, National Museum of World Cultures, The Netherlands
James Viernes, Pacific Islands Development Program, Hawai‘i
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