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Professor Katerina Teaiwa
Contacts
Contact email:katerina.teaiwa@anu.edu.au
Professor, School of Culture, History & Language
Vice-President, Australian Association for Pacific Studies
Katerina Teaiwa is a scholar, artist, activist and nationally award winning teacher based in Canberra. She is Professor of Pacific Studies in the School of Culture, History and Language at the Australian National University with a long career studying the impacts of phosphate mining and displacement on Pacific Islands.
Research interests
- Pacific Islands, especially Kiribati and Fiji
- Pacific Regionalism
- Pacific visual and performing arts
- Festival of Pacific Arts
- Histories of Pacific phosphate mining
- Indigenous concepts of land, environment and wellbeing
- Pacific environmental activism
- Climate change
- Cultural policy
- Cultural and creative industries
- Pacific women's studies
- Visual and embodied approaches and methods in Pacific Studies
- Indigenous remix and decolonial work
- Pacific biography and life writing
Groups
- Researcher, Agriculture, food and nutritional security
- Researcher, Indigenous peoples, cultures and knowledges
- Researcher, Psychology, communication and the arts