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. For more details about our organisation, click here to view the Constitution. The PHA's current Executive Committee (2026-27) includes:
PRESIDENT
Übersee-Museum Bremen
VICE PRESIDENT
National University of Samoa
TREASURER
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
SECRETARY
University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
MEDIA/COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER
Stanford University, USA
POSTGRADUATE REPRESENTATIVE
University of Southern Queensland, Australia
CONFERENCE CONVENOR
The University of Papua New Guinea
WEBSITE EDITOR
The University of the South Pacific, Fiji
ORDINARY MEMBER
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
ORDINARY MEMBER
Deakin University, Australia
ORDINARY MEMBER
King’s College London, UK
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