Staff Profiles

Qualifications:
BA McG. , MA Oregon , PhD Hawaii

Biography:
Frank is an anthropologist/archaeologist who joined Pacific Studies at USP in 2006. For over twenty years he has worked as a researcher, contractor and consultant on archaeological projects and in cultural heritage management throughout the Pacific Islands region.  His main interests are environmental archaeology, tangible cultural heritage management, and human ecology on Pacific atolls.  He also has research and teaching interests in: Ecological Anthropology (Human Behavioral Ecology, Historical Ecology, Traditional Ecological Knowledge); Rural Development; Pacific Epistemologies; Management of Common Property Resources; Ethnoarchaeology; Comparative Island Studies (Caribbean/Pacific); and Pacific Atolls.

In addition to his role as Senior Lecturer in Pacific Studies, Frank is the Pacific Studies Postgraduate Chair, the Pacific Studies Postgraduate Seminar Series Coordinator, the OCACPS representative to the Faculty of Arts and Law Academic Standards and Quality Committee, and the OCACPS representative to the Faculty of Arts and Law Research and Graduate Affairs Committee.  Frank works in partnership with the Kiribati Ministry of Internal and Social Affairs (Cultural Division) to assist with cultural mapping (archaeological research of selected sites recorded in oral traditions) in Kiribati.  He conducts ongoing archaeological research in Kiribati, has published numerous articles in journals and books, and presented at conferences both within the Pacific region and outside.

Publications:
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