NZSA Associates - USA


Brigham Young University, Hawai'I

Department of Political Science
Jon Tikivanotau M. Jonassen
Areas of research: external affairs management in microstates, Free Association political status, culture and politics
in the Cook Islands, Pacific regionalism
Email: jonassej@byuh.edu, jontiki@byuh.edu
NZSA member: No


University of California, Los Angeles

Department of Health Services
Miriam Laugeson
Areas of research: history of NZ health policy, contemporary health policy in NZ
Email: laugeson@ucla.edu
NZSA member: No

City University of New York, College of Staten Island

Department of Media Culture
David A. Gerstner
Areas of research: film, masculinity, queer studies, Peter Wells
Email: gerstner@postbox.csi.cuny.edu
NZSA member: No


Cornell University

Department of English
Elizabeth DeLoughrey
Areas of research: Maori studies, NZ literature, and NZ culture
Email: emd23@cornell.edu
NZSA member: No

Department of English
Melissa Gniadek
Areas of research: literature, history, Frank Sargeson, William Barrett Marshall
Email: mmg39@cornell.edu
NZSA member: Yes

Department of Theatre, Film and Dance
Diana Looser
Areas of research: NZ theatre (including Maori and Pacific Island theatre), NZ literature, varieties of NZ English
Email: dl296@cornell.edu
NZSA member: No


Duke University

Literature programme
Teresa Shewry
Areas of research: Asia-Pacific literature, postcolonial studies, ecology, ethics
Email: tjs9@duke.edu
NZSA member: No


Hampshire College

Department of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies
Eva Rueschmann
Areas of research: film, literature, gender studies, visual culture, Jane Campion
Email: erueschmann@hampshire.edu
NZSA member: Yes


Indiana University

Department of Communication and Culture
Gregory A. Waller
Areas of research: film, cultural policy
Email: gwaller@indiana.edu
NZSA member: No


Johns Hopkins University

Department of English
Simon During
Areas of research: literature, cultural history
Email: simond@jhu.edu
NZSA member: No

French programme, SAIS
Pascale de Souza
Areas of research: literature, short story, identity, Pacific islands
Email: rmpdesouza@verizon.net
NZSA member: No


University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Department of American Studies
Susan Y. Najita
Areas of research: Pacific island literatures, film and visual culture, theories of gender and sexuality, postcolonial studies
Email: najita@umich.edu
NZSA member: Yes


University of Missouri - St Louis

Department of Political Science
Lyman Tower Sargent
Areas of research: utopian studies
Email: lyman.sargent@umsl.edu
NZSA member: Yes


University of Notre Dame

Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Anne Magnan-Park
Areas of research: Patricia Grace, Margaret Mahy, Gaylene Preston
Email: anne.magnan-park.2@nd.edu
NZSA member: No


University of Tennessee

Department of Modern Foreign Languages
Chris Holmlund
Areas of research: film, gender studies
Email: cholmlun@utk.edu
NZSA member: No


University of Utah

Department of English
Angela Marie Smith
Areas of research: film, disability studies
Email: angela.smith@english.utah.edu
NZSA member: No

Department of History
Matthew L. Basso
Areas of research: masculinity, the mining industry, Maori studies
Email: mattbasso@history.utah.edu 
NZSA member: No


Wayne State University

Department of English
Kirsten Moana Thompson
Areas of research: film
Email: kirsten_thompson@wayne.edu
NZSA member: No