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University of Chicago Anthropologists who work in Oceania, Australia, & New Zealand

Faculty
Students:
     Preparing for the field
     In the field
     Writing up
     Recent PhDs

Faculty:

• John Kelly - Fiji; Pune, India (Social theory, capitalism, nation and decolonization, anthropology of knowledge, semiotic technologies)
• Michael Silverstein - Wishram & Wasco Chinookan, Tsimshian (Washington, Oregon, British Columbia); Worora & related Northern Kimberley groups (Near Derby, Western Australia) (Language, semiotics of communication, culture and cognition)
• Nancy Munn - Central Australia (Walbiri), West Central Australia (Pitjantjatjara); Northeast Massim region of Melanesia; Gawa Island (Marshall Bennetts), northern Massim
• Marshall Sahlins - Fiji; Siassi Islands, New Guinea; Istanbul, Turkey; Hawaii

Students:

Preparing for the Field

• Kristyn Hara (A) - Oceania/Hawaii (Environmental archaeology, demography, paleobotany, subsistence systems, human ecodynamics)

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In the Field

• Simon May - Fiji & Britain ("The Queen Still Has Mana: Ethnic Fijian Service in the British Army and the Production of Fijian Nationhood")
• James Slotta (Jt. Ling) - Yupno Valley, Papua New Guinea; "Dialect, Register, and the Big-Man: The Social Organization of Sporadic Linguistic Innovations in the Kabwum District, Papua New Guinea"

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Writing Up

• Courtney Handman (Jt. Ling) - Waria Valley, Papua New Guinea; "Schism and Christiantity: Bible Translation and the Social Organizaton of Denominationalism in the Waria Valley, Papua New Guinea"
• Marston Morgan - Melanesia/New Caledonia, North Africa/Algeria, French Overseas Territories; "New Societies in the South Pacific: An Ethnography of French Sovereignty in New Caledonia"
   

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Recent PhDs

• Ira Bashkow - Ponpondetta, Oro Province, Papua New Guinea; “‘Whitemen’ in the Moral World of Orokaiva of Papua New Guinea”
• Ilana Gershon - Auckland, New Zealand; San Francisco, USA; “Making Differences Cultural: Samoan Migrant Families Encounter New Zealand and United States Bureaucracy”
• Alex Golub - Porgera Valley, Papua New Guinea; "Making the Ipili Feasible: Imagining ‘Global' and ‘Local' Actors at the Porgera Gold Mine, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea"
• Catarina Krizancic - French Polynesia (Tahiti); "Tahiti Royale: Divine Kings Disguised as a Rising French Colonial Elite"
• Alexander Mawyer - Mangareva, Gambier Islands, French Polynesia; " 'TV Talk' and Other Processes of Media Receptivity in the Production of Identities in the Gambier Islands, French Polynesia"
• Debra McDougall – Ranongga, Solomon Islands; “The Shifting Ground of Moral Community: Christianity, Property, and Place in Ranongga, Solomon Islands”
• Eve Pinsker - Ponape, Fed States of Micronesia; “Point of Order, Point of Change: Nation, Culture & Community in the Federated States of Micronesia”
• Daniel Rosenblatt - Auckland, New Zealand (Maori); “Houses and Hopes: Urban Marae and the Indigenization of Modernity in New Zealand”
• Michael Scott - Makira, Solomon Islands; “Auhena: Land, Lineage and Ontology in Arosi (Solomon Islands)”

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