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Damon Salesa's Degrees

PhD History University of Oxford
Bachelors History University of Auckland

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According to Wikipedia, Damon Ieremia Salesa is a New Zealand academic. Of Samoan descent, he is the first Pacific person to hold the position of vice-chancellor at a New Zealand university. Education Raised in Glen Innes, Salesa attended Selwyn College and then the University of Auckland. He graduated in 1997 with a master's of arts and the title of his thesis was "Troublesome half-castes" : tales of a Samoan borderland. Salesa was the first Rhodes Scholar of Pacific descent, obtaining his PhD from the University of Oxford. The title of his doctoral thesis was Race mixing: a Victorian problem in Britain and New Zealand, 1830s–1870.

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Damon Salesa's Published Works

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Haunted by empire : geographies of intimacy in North American history (2006) (534)
Racial Crossings: Race, Intermarriage, and the Victorian British Empire (2011) (51)
The Pacific in Indigenous Time (2014) (23)
Samoa’s Half-Castes and Some Frontiers of Comparison (2020) (14)
New Zealand's Pacific (2009) (12)
'First Contacts' in Polynesia: The Samoan Case (1722-1848), Western Misunderstandings about Sexuality and Divinity [Book Review] (2005) (10)
"Troublesome half-castes" : tales of a Samoan borderland (1997) (8)
The World from Oceania (2012) (7)
Cowboys in the House of Polynesia (2010) (3)
Teresia K. Teaiwa: Crying Salt Water (2018) (2)
Emma and Phebe: “Weavers of the Border” (2014) (1)
Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: A Ghost Story and a Biography (review) (2011) (1)
The Pacific future has already happened (2017) (1)
New Zealand's Pacific way: Pacific politics in New Zealand (2017) (0)
Hugh Laracy (2016) (0)
Letter from the Editors: Engaging with Oceania: Some Background about the Region – and Why It Matters for IB Research (2021) (0)
‘Pandemonium on Earth’? Intimacy and Encounter in Pre-Colonial New Zealand (2011) (0)
Future economy, future work (2017) (0)
University of Auckland Centre for eResearch Annual Report 2016 (2018) (0)
Racial Crossing and the Empire: Scholarship, Science, Politics, and Place (2011) (0)
Review of Obeyesekere, Cannibal Talk: The Man-Eating Myth and Human Sacrifice in the South Seas (2007) (0)
The rain from Manu'a (2017) (0)
Worlds Apart: A History of the Pacific Islands [Book Review] (2004) (0)
A History of the Pacific Islands: Passages through Tropical Time [Book Review] (2002) (0)
Amalgamating Races: The ‘New System’ of Colonization and Racial Management (2011) (0)
Native Men Remade: Gender and Nation in Contemporary Hawai'i. Ty P. Kāwika Tengan (2010) (0)
Native Seas and Native Seaways: The Pacific Ocean and New Zealand (2018) (0)
University of Auckland Centre for eResearch Annual Report 2017 (2016) (0)
A Tender Way in Race War (2011) (0)
A tale of two cities: racial segregation in Auckland (2017) (0)
The Pacific economy (2017) (0)
Conclusion: Dwelling in Unity (2011) (0)
Introduction: The Problem of Racial Crossing (2011) (0)
Building different cities (2017) (0)
Pacific politics 2.0: fragmenting Pacific politics (2017) (0)
The Experiment of Racial Amalgamation (2011) (0)
Volume 3 of Teaching Oceania Series, Health & Environment in the Pacific (2017) (0)

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