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The Contemporary Pacific, Volume 30, Number 1, 2018, pp. 263-266 (Article)

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andrea l berez-kroeker is an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawai‘i–Mānoa, where she teaches classes in language documentation and conservation. Her research interests include data management for linguistics, endangered language archiving, and the role of ­language-related education of youth in promoting linguistic equality in ­society. She has previously conducted field research with speakers of indigenous ­languages in and Alaska. michael lujan bevacqua is an assistant professor of Chamorro language at the University of and is the cochair for Independent Guåhan, an educa- tional outreach organization tasked with educating the island community on decolonization. His research deals with studying the effects of colonization on the Chamorro people and theorizing the possibilities for their decolonization. In 2016 he and his two brothers started a creative company—The Guam Bus—and they write, illustrate, and publish comics and children’s books in the Chamorro language. elizabeth ua ceallaigh bowman is assistant professor of comparative literature and director of the Women and Gender Studies program at the Uni- versity of Guam. Recent publications include “Histories of Wonder, Futures of Wonder: Chamorro Activist Identity, Community, and Leadership in ‘The Legend of Gadao’ and ‘The Women Who Saved Guåhan from a Giant Fish’” (with Michael Lujan Bevacqua; Marvels & Tales: A Journal of Fairy Tale Studies 30 [1]: 70–89). Current projects include an essay on sexual slavery in Japan- occupied Guam and Canada Lee in whiteface onstage. michael chopey has been a catalog librarian and faculty member at the ­University of Hawai‘i (uh) since 1999. He catalogs Pacific-language and Western-language materials in all formats and is an adjunct professor in the uh graduate Library and Information Science Program. He received an MS in library and information science from Long Island University and an MA in ­education from New York University. peter clegg (PhD 2000) is an associate professor in politics and head of the Department of Health and Social Sciences at the University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom. He was formerly a visiting research fellow at both kitlv/Royal Netherlands Institute of South East Asian and Caribbean Studies, in Leiden, The Netherlands, and at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of

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Social and Economic Studies (salises), University of the West Indies, Jamaica. His main research interests focus on the international political economy of the Caribbean and contemporary developments within the British Overseas ­Territories. trevor j durbin is a cultural anthropologist and assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at Kansas State ­University. He is interested in the relationships among management expertise, public discourse, and environmental protection. He has lived and conducted fieldwork in Sāmoa, where he was an intern at the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional ­Environment Programme (sprep), as well as in the Cook Islands. lorenz gonschor was born in Germany, where he studied anthropology, political science, and history; he obtained a master’s degree in Pacific Islands studies in 2008 from the University of Hawai‘i–Mānoa and a PhD in political science in 2016 from the same institution. Since mid-2017 he is a senior lecturer at ‘Atenisi University in , where he is also the interim librarian, and serves as tcp’s political reviews editor. His research interests include historical and con- temporary governance and politics of Oceania. Thematically his work focuses on international relations, regionalism, and decolonization, and geographically on the countries and territories of . eleanor kleiber received a master’s of library and information studies and a master’s of archival studies from the University of British Columbia in 2006. From 2006 to 2011, she served as the librarian/archivist for the Secretariat of the Pacific Community based in Nouméa, New Caledonia. In 2011, she began her current job as Pacific specialist librarian at the University of Hawai‘i– Mānoa. monica c labriola is an assistant professor at the University of Hawai‘i–West O‘ahu, where she teaches Pacific Islands, US, and world history. She lived and worked in the from 2001 to 2004 and returned to conduct fieldwork and research in 2005 and 2011. Her PhD dissertation, “Likiep Kapin Iep: Land, Power, and History on a Marshallese Atoll,” which she is developing into a book manuscript, explores the cultural, epistemological, and historical context surrounding the sale of Likiep Atoll to a Portuguese trader in 1877. clement yow mulalap, a native of the island of Yap in the Federated States of (FSM), is an independent legal consultant specializing in interna- tional law, particularly as applied to matters concerning the Pacific region. He holds a BA in economics (with minors in political science and English) from the University of Hawai‘i–Mānoa; a JD (with a certificate in Asia-Pacific law) from the William S Richardson School of Law; and an LLM in international legal studies from New York University School of Law. contributors 265 margaret mutu is the professor of Māori studies at the University of ­Auckland and is of Ngāti Kahu, Te Rarawa, Ngāti Whatua, and Scottish descent. With a PhD in Māori studies and linguistics from the University of Auckland, her research interests include recording and translating oral tradi- tions; Polynesian linguistics; and Māori resource management, conservation practices, and Treaty of Waitangi claims against the Crown. She has published four books and many articles; her third book, The State of Māori Rights (2011), is an expanded, updated, and annotated compilation of her reviews of Māori issues for The Contemporary Pacific from 1995 to 2009. chris nobbs is a graduate of the universities of Auckland, London, and Cambridge, in natural science, economics, and economic development studies, respectively. Currently a writer, his long-term interests have been in economics and social justice. In recent times he has been living on , where he was born.

A political scientist, ‘umi perkins is a Mānoa Academy Scholar and a lecturer at the Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution at the University of Hawai‘i–Mānoa. He has written for The Nation, Hawai‘i Review, Hūlili journal, The Hawaiian Journal of Law and Politics, Summit magazine, Cultural Survival Quarterly, and The Contemporary Pacific. He has also contributed to Native Nations: The Survival of Fourth World Peoples (edited by Sharlotte Neely, JCharlton Publishing, 2014) and The Past Before Us: Mo‘okū‘auhau as Methodology (edited by Nalani Wilson-Hokowhitu, University of Hawai‘i Press, forthcoming). steven ratuva is the director of the Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Stud- ies as well as professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, . He has previously held positions in a number of universities and has published extensively in the areas of development, political change, social protection, affirmative action, elections, political parties, regional politics, coups, and indigenous intellectual property rights. A political sociologist, he has transdisciplinary research interests across such areas as sociology, anthropology, politics, philosophy, economics, and development studies. ryan shelby received a master’s degree in linguistics from the University of Hawai‘i–Mānoa in 2016. From 2010 to 2014, he was a lecturer at the Univer- sity of Goroka in the Department of Language and Literature. He currently is an adjunct lecturer in English as a second language at Hawaii Tokai International College, in Kapolei, on the island of O‘ahu. michael spann is a lecturer in the School of Political Science and Interna- tional Studies at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. His research 266 the contemporary pacific • 30:1 (2018) interests include theoretical and methodological concerns of the global politics of development, the colonial encounter, and issues surrounding food sovereignty, soil management, and nutrition. kate stevens is an assessor in the research funding team at the Royal Society Te Apārangi, based in New Zealand. After completing her PhD on criminal justice in the colonial Pacific (University of Cambridge 2015), she was a post- doctoral research fellow in the University of Otago Department of History and Art ­History, working with Professor Judy Bennett on a commodity history of ­coconuts and related products in the Pacific from the early 1800s to the pres- ent. Her research and publications center on the intersections between intimacy, race, colonial law, and economics across New Zealand and Pacific. danielle yarbrough is a PhD student studying at the University of Hawai‘i– Mānoa in the Department of Linguistics. She received her Master of Arts degree in linguistics from the University of Montana and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English with an emphasis in linguistics from Boise State University. She has primarily worked with members of the Blackfeet Nation in Montana and her research interests include archiving practices and data management for linguistic materials, language activism, and pedagogical methods for language ­revitalization. forrest wade young is currently a lecturer in political science and anthro­ pology at the University of Hawai‘i–Mānoa. Since completing his PhD in anthropology on the indigenous politics of Rapa Nui, his postdoctoral educa- tion is distinguished by the completion of certificate programs in Indigenous Issues and Policy at the Columbia University Center for Race and Ethnicity and in International Cultural Studies at the East-West Center.