Associate ProfessorHelen Gardner

Knowledge Areas
Pacific History - History of Christian Missions; Colonisation and
Decolonisation in the Pacific - local, national and global perspectives;
Church and State in the Pacific; Nation building in the Pacific Islands,
historical and contemporary perspectives.

History of Anthropology: The history of anthropology in Oceania. Missionary
anthropology in Oceania in the nineteenth and twentieth century. The field and
the metropole in the spread of anthropological theories. The culture concept
in twentieth century Pacific history.