Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa
About the author of Sweat and Saltwater
Associate Professor Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa (1968–2017) was an influential scholar, teacher, activist and poet, and director of Pacific Studies and Samoan Studies at Victoria University of Wellington in Aotearoa New Zealand.
About the volume editors of Sweat and Saltwater
Katerina Teaiwa is associate professor and deputy director HDR (Higher Degree Research) in the School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, at the Australian National University. She is vice president of the Australian Association for Pacific Studies, chair of the Oceania Working Party of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, and the arts editor of The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs. She is also a practicing visual artist whose work has been featured in exhibitions in Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong; author of Consuming Ocean Island: Stories of People and Phosphate from Banaba (Indiana University Press, 2015) and coeditor, with Polly Stupples, of Contemporary Perspectives on Art and International Development (2016).
April K Henderson is senior lecturer and director of Va‘aomanū Pasifika—Programme in Pacific Studies and Samoan Studies at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington (VUW). Her writing on Pacific engagements with popular culture and diasporic identity appears in The Vinyl Ain’t Final: Hip Hop and the Globalization of Black Popular Culture (2006) and Made in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand: Studies in Popular Music (2018), as well as the New Zealand Journal of Media Studies and The Contemporary Pacific. She serves on the editorial board of Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture and is coeditor, with Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua, of the Indigenous Pacifics book series for University of Hawai‘i Press. In 2002, she was Teresia Teaiwa’s first hire in the VUW Pacific studies program she founded and, after various additions and departures over their fifteen years together, the sole surviving appointment at the time of Teresia’s death. An example of their reflective dialogue on learning and teaching appears in Pacific Studies 32 (4) (2009).
Terence Wesley-Smith is a professor in the Center for Pacific Islands Studies (CPIS), University of Hawai‘i–Mānoa, and principle investigator of a National Resource Center Grant (Pacific Islands) from the US Department of Education. He served as CPIS director from 2010 to 2018 and as editor of The Contemporary Pacific from 2008 to 2015. His publications include Remaking Area Studies: Teaching and Learning Across Asia and the Pacific (edited with Jon Goss, 2010); China in Oceania: Towards a New Regional Order? (edited with Edgar Porter, 2010); and The China Alternative: Changing Regional Order in the Pacific Islands (edited with Graeme Smith, 2021).
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