Va'aomanū Pasifika

Dr Teresia Teaiwa

Snr Lecturer Pacific Studies
Va'aomanu Pasifika
address

Phone: 04 463 5110
Fax: 04 463 5159
Location: Room 103, 6 Kelburn Parade, Kelburn Campus

Dr Teresia Teaiwa

Qualifications

BA Trin Coll Wash, MA Hawai'i, PhD UCSC 

Administrative Responsibilities

  • Postgraduate Coordinator, Va’aomanū Pasifika
  • Member, School of Social and Cultural Studies Research Committee
  • Member, Board of Studies for the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies
  • Member, Board of Studies for Development Studies

Areas of Achievement

Current Postgraduate Supervisees:

  • Birte Blascheck, PhD Sociology, Migrant Success Stories (Caribbean communities in Canada and Pacific communities in New Zealand), secondary supervisor.
  • Karly Christ, Master of Development Studies, Gender and Land Tenure on Rapanui, co-supervisor.
  • Emelihter Kihleng, PhD Pacific Studies, Gender, Material Culture and Micronesian Diasporas, primary supervisor.
  • Jacki Leota-Ete, PhD Pacific Studies, Militarism and Gender in the two Samoas, primary supervisor.
  • Peter Nuttal, PhD Development Studies, Sailing for Sustainability: Case Studies from Fiji, secondary supervisor.
  • Sinith Sittirak, PhD Geography, Post-colonial feminist critique of Knowledge in the Thai Women's Movement (the archives of Pornpet Meuansri), secondary supervisor.

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Completed Supervisions:

  • Sadat Kelo Muaiava, MA Pacific Studies, 'Fa'atagata'esea i Nu'u 'Ese: Samoan Faifeau kids as tagata'ese and alo 'o fa'afeagaiga in New Zealand. (primary supervisor, 2011)
  • Eleanor Hale, Master of Development Studies,  ‘Gendered realities of temporary labour migration: experiences of New Zealand’s Recognised Seasonal Employer Scheme in Vanuatu’ (primary supervisor, 2010)
  • Marianna Churchward, Master of Social Sciences (Applied), Sophisticated mediators : New Zealand-born Samoan first-time mothers and strategies for their health and wellbeing (primary supervisor, 2010)
  • Rodrigo Gomez Segura, MA Pacific Studies, 'Rapanui and Chile, a debate on self-determination : a notional and legal basis for the political decolonisation of Easter Island (primary supervisor, 2010)
  • Ahmed Hussein Shukry, PhD Development Studies, 'Governance and Vulnerability in Small Island Developing States' (primary supervisor, 2009)
  • Graeme Whimp, MA Pacific Studies, 'Writing the colony: Walter Edward Gudgeon in the Cook Islands 1898 to 1909' (primary supervisor, 2008)
  • Alice Pollard, PhD Gender and Women's Studies, 'Painaha: gender and leadership in 'Are'Are society, the South Sea Evangelical Church and parliamentary leadership: Solomon Islands' (secondary supervisor, 2006)
  • Michael Frew, Master of Development Studies, 'Tourism as an economic development tool for Ovalau, Fiji Islands: An analysis of selected issues' (primary supervisor, 2005)

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Current Research

  • Continuing research into gendered dynamics of militarism in the Pacific
  • Continuing research into theory, practice and pedagogy of Pacific Studies
  • Associate of the Victoria Centre for Applied Cross-Cultural Research

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Selected External Activities

Secretary, Pacific History Association

Member, International Feminist Journal of Politics

Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Pacific History

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Selected Recent Academic Publications

Teresia Teaiwa, “‘What remains to be seen’: Reclaiming the visual roots of Pacific literature” in PMLA, 125(3), 2010: 730-736.

Teresia K. Teaiwa, “Specifying Pacific Studies: For or Before an Asia-Pacific Studies Agenda” in Remaking Area Studies: Teaching and Learning Across Asia and the Pacific, edited by Terence Wesley-Smith and Jon Goss, UH Press, 2010: 110-124.

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Selected Books/Edited Collections

Teresia Teaiwa (ed), Special Section on Militarism and Gender in the Western Pacific, Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 52(1), 2011: 1-55.

Teresia Teaiwa and Selina Marsh (eds), Flying Fox Excursions: Albert Wendt’s Critical and Creative Legacy in Oceania, A Special Issue of The Contemporary Pacific, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 22(2), 2010: 233-396.

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Selected Book Chapters

Teresia K. Teaiwa, “bikinis and other s/pacific n/oceans” in Militarized Currents: Toward a Decolonized Future in Asia and the Pacific, edited by Setsu Shigematsu and Keith L Camacho, University of Minnesota Press, 2010: 15-31.

Teresia K. Teaiwa, 'Globalizing and Gendered Forces: The Contemporary Militarization of Pacific/Oceania,' in Kathy E. Ferguson and Monique Mironescu (eds), Gender and Globalization in Asia and the Pacific, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2008:318-332.

Teresia K. Teaiwa, 'On Women and 'Indians': The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Militarized Fiji,' in Bárbara Sutton, Sandra Morgen and Julie Novkov (eds), Rethinking Security: Gender, Race and Militarization. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2008:111-135.

Teresia Teaiwa and Malakai Koloamatangi, 'Democracy and Its Prospects in the Pacific' in Pacific Futures, Michael Powles (ed). Canberra: Pandanus Books, 2006: 20-35.

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Selected Journal Articles

Teresia Teaiwa and Selina Tusitala Marsh, “Albert Wendt’s Critical and Creative Legacy in Oceania: An Introduction” in Flying Fox Excursions: Albert Wendt’s Creative and Critical Legacy in Oceania, Special Issue of The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs. 22(2), 2010: 233-248.

Teresia K. Teaiwa and April K. Henderson, “Humanities and Communities: A Dialogue in Pacific Studies,” in Pacific Studies, 32(4), 2009/2010: 421-438.

Teresia K. Teaiwa, 'On analogies: Rethinking the Pacific in a Global Context' in The Contemporary Pacific, 18(1), 2006: 71-88.

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Selected Literary Publications

Teresia Teaiwa, "Foreword", Thank you, thank you! Volume 1 by Yilma Tafere Tasew. Wellington: Steele Roberts, 2010: 4-6.

Teresia Teaiwa, “Pacific Tsunami Found Poems,” in Going Down Swinging, 30, 2010: 33-34.

Teresia Teaiwa, "Considérations" (1. Considérations Culinaires, 2. Coups de soleil), trans. Jean Anderson, in Brèves: anthologie permanente de la nouvelle 92, Nouvelles D'Oceanie/2, 2010: 25-29.

I can see Fiji: poetry and sound, Teresia Teaiwa featuring Des Mallon, sound design by Hinemoana Baker (1 x CD, approx 25 mins), Wellington: Fiery Canoe Productions, 2008.

'Real Natives Talk about Love' (creative non-fiction) in Niu Voices: Contemporary Pacific Fiction 1. Wellington: Huia, 2006: 35-40.

Five pieces in How2 Special Feature: Pacific Poetries (How2 is an on-line journal exploring non-traditional directions in poetry and scholarship by women).

Two poems in Development Vol. 49 No. 1, 2006 Special Issue on Women's Rights and Development.  Refer to document below:

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Document File size File type
Two Poems 37 KB PDF

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Awards and Achievements

2010 Macaulay Distinguished Lecture Award, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai’i

2007 Marsden Fast-Start Award for an oral history and book project titled "What are we fighting for? Fijian women soldiers at home and abroad"

2006 Creative New Zealand grant towards producing and promoting a new solo audio compact disc of spoken word/poetry, co-producer Hinemoana Baker

Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, Research Fellowship 2003

University of California Regents, Dissertation Year Fellowship, 1995-1996

University of California Regents, Mentorship Grant (Mentor: Professor Angela Y. Davis), 1992-1993

East-West Center Grantee 1989-1991

Phi Beta Kappa, Epsilon Chapter, Trinity College, Washington, DC, elected 1989

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Recommended Sites

Pacific History Association

The Pacific Studies Initiative: Pacific Syllabus and Bibliography Collection

NZEPC Pasifika Poetry site

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