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 (2018-20) includes:
President: Anne Perez Hattori, University of Guam, Guam
Vice-President: Nicholas Thomas, University of Cambridge, UK
Secretary/Treasurer: Adrian Muckle, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Newsletter Editor: Max Quanchi
Website Manager: Kirstie Close-Barry, Deakin University, Australia
Conference Convenor: Nicholas Halter, 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
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