Islands of Hope: Indigenous Resource Management in a Changing Pacific

Michelle Ladwig Williams is an independent scholar based in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, with research interests including transnational Pacific identities, Pacific music and dance in Aotearoa, Pacific festivals and transnational youth. She holds an MA in music education from University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and a PhD in anthropology from the University of Auckland. Dr. Williams has previously published in Pacific Arts and Pacific Affairs and has presented regularly at international conferences including the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance, the Society for Ethnomusicology and the Pacific History Association.