I have a PhD in anthropology from the Australian National University. My PhD research focused on the history of social and cultural change for Hulu speaking people of Papua New Guinea's Hela Province, and the impact of ExxonMobil's Papua New Guinea Liquefied Natural Gas (PNG LNG) Project. I have a professional background in geology and environmental science and worked as an environmental consultant before undertaking a Masters Degree in Development Studies where I conducted research into the impact of pollution from the Ok Tedi mine on West Papuan refugee communities living along the Fly River. My professional and academic background underpin my interest and work in the environmental, social and political effects of mining operations in the Pacific.
Experience
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–presentVisiting scholar, Australian National University
Education
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2020The Australian National University, PhD
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2014The University of Melbourne, Master of Deveopment Studies
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1995The University of Melbourne, BSc (Hons) Geology
Publications
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2021Absence as Immoral Act: The PNG LNG Project and the Impact of an Absent State, The Absent Presence of the State in Large-Scale Resource Extraction Projects
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2021The Land of Painted Bones: Warfare, Trauma, and History in Papua New Guinea's Hela Province, Anthropological Forum
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2021Media review of A Distant Thud in the Jungle (140 km à l'ouest du paradis) by Céline Rouzet, Journal of Pacific History
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2021From donation to handout: Resource wealth and transformations of inequality in Huli politics, Unequal Lives: Gender, Race and Class in the Western Pacific
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2019The Papua New Guinea Natural Gas Project and the moral decay of the universe, Disasters in popular orality
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2018Resources curse PNG communities’ future, East Asia Forum
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2018How PNG LNG Is Shaking Up the Earthquake, EnviroSociety
Professional Memberships
- Fellow of the Australian Anthropological Society
- Article Feed
- ORCID
- Joined
