Damon Ieremia Salesa

Assistant Professor, American Culture and History
B.A./ M.A. University of Auckland, New Zealand
D.Phil, University of Oxford, England

Research/Teaching Specializations: British Imperialism, Pacific Islands History, Pacific Islands Cultures and Anthropology, New Zealand History, Pacific Islands Migrations

Courses Taught: History of the Pacific Islanders, Race and Empire in Britain, History Honors Junior Seminar, Colonial/Postcolonial/and Indigenous Histories of the Pacific, Pacific Island Worlds.

Field Research: Archival work in Europe, U.S., Samoa, New Zealand, and Australia; fieldwork in New Zealand and Samoa.

Recent Publications: “The power of the physician: Doctors and the ‘dying Maori’ in early colonial New Zealand,” Health and History 3:1, 2001; “Half-castes between the wars: colonial categories in New Zealand and Samoa,” New Zealand Journal of History 34:1, 2000.

Awards: Rhodes Scholarship, 1997-2001

Current Projects: Race Mixing: A Victorian Problem in Britain & New Zealand

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