Center for Pacific Island Studies

core faculty

• terence wesley-smith

• tarcisius kabutaulaka

• lola quan bautista

• julie walsh

staff

• managing editor

• outreach director

• administrative asst

• graduate assistants

• affiliate faculty

• graduate students

people

Terence A Wesley-Smith

Associate Professor, Graduate Chair, and Editor of The Contemporary Pacific, Center for Pacific Islands Studies; PhD University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (1988)

e-mail: twsmith@hawaii.edu

Terence Wesley-Smith, a political scientist with degrees from Victoria University of Wellington and the University of Hawai'i, has been with the Center for Pacific Islands Studies more than twenty five years. He writes and teaches about contemporary issues in the region, with a particular interest in development, the impact of globalization, the political economy of mining in Papua New Guinea, and the emerging role of China in the region. For many years he was the center's Graduate Chair, and he continues to teach the MA program's introductory seminar, Learning Oceania (PACS 601). Wesley-Smith is founding associate editor of The Contemporary Pacific, and from 1997-2003 directed the Ford Foundation-funded Moving Cultures project, which developed innovative ways of teaching and learning about the Asia-Pacific region. He was also a member of the planning team of the Ford-funded Islands of Globalization project, which from 2003-2006 established collaborative relationships between educational institutions in the Pacific and Caribbean. In March 2009 he co-convened an international conference called Pacific Alternative: Cultural Heritage and Political Innovation in Oceania, a milestone event in an ongoing collaborative research project with the University of Bergen in Norway. In 2003, Dr Wesley-Smith was awarded the UH Board of Regents Medal for Excellence in Teaching.

Selected publications

2010	China in Oceania: Towards a New Regional Order? Edited volume with Edgar Porter. London and New York: Volume 1, Foundations of Asia Pacific Studies Series, Berghahn Books.
2010	Remaking Area Studies: Teaching and Learning Across Asia and the Pacific. Edited volume with Jon Goss. Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press.
2010	“Epeli's Quest: Essays in Honor of Epeli Hau`ofa.” The Contemporary Pacific 22(1): 101-123. A collection of 8 essays, edited with an introduction.
2008	2008 Altered States: Regional Intervention and the Politics of State Failure in Oceania. In Intervention and State-Building in the Pacific: The Political Legitimacy of 'Co-operative Intervention', edited by Greg Fry and Tarcisius Kabutaulaka, Manchester University Press.
2007	Self-Determination in Oceania: New Roles for US, Japanese and Asian Powers? Japan Focus: An Asia Pacific E-Journal. Posted 7 February. http://www.japanfocus.org
2007	Self-Determination in Oceania. Race and Class 48(3): 29-46
2006	The Limits of Self-Determination in Oceania. Social and Economic Studies. 55 (4).