Nicole Haley, BA (UQ), BA(Hons) (Macquarie University), PhD (ANU)

Research Fellow, State, Society & Governance in Melanesia Program, School of International, Political & Strategic Studies

Email: nicole.haley@anu.edu.au

Biographical statement

Dr Nicole Haley joined SSGM in 2006 and was appointed Convenor of the Program in January 2010. Nicole originally came to ANU in 1994 and graduated with a PhD in Anthropology in May 2003. Her thesis entitled Ipakana Yakaiya: Mapping Landscapes, Mapping Lives - Contemporary Land Politics among the Duna, was awarded the 2002 ANU Crawford Prize for Academic Excellence. Nicole is co-editor (with Ron May) of a book entitled Conflict and Resource Development in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea (2007) and of a forthcoming collection on the 2007 Papua New Guinea General Elections. In 2007 she coordinated the first ever domestic observation of the Papua New Guinea General Elections and is co-author (with Ray Anere) of The 2007 Papua New Guinea National General Elections Domestic Observation Report (2009). Other key publications include "When There's No Accessing Basic Health Care: Local Politics and Responses to HIV/AIDS at Lake Kopiago, Papua New Guinea", in Leslie Butt & Richard Eves (eds) Making Sense of AIDS: Culture, Sexuality, and Power in Melanesia (2008), and "Sung Adornment: Changing Masculinities at Lake Kopiago, Papua New Guinea", in John Taylor (ed.) 'Changing Pacific Masculinities', The Australian Journal of Anthropology Special Issue 19(2):213-229. Nicole is currently writing about electoral politics and local political cultures in PNG.

Research interests

Contemporary Land Politics; Elections and Electoral Politics in PNG; Social Identity; Governance; Conflict and Armed Violence; Peace Building; Small Arms; Human Security; Security and Development; Women and Conflict; Gender; HIV/AIDS; and Contemporary Masculinity in Melanesia.

Key publications

• With R. May (eds). Forthcoming. Conflict and Resource Development in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea.
• With R. Muggah. 2006. "Jumping the Gun: armed violence in Papua New Guinea". In Small Arms Survey 2006: Unfinished Business. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp164-187.
• With R. Muggah. 2006. "Jumping the Gun? Reflections on armed violence in Papua New Guinea". African Security Review 15(2):38-56.
• 2004. "A Failed Election: the Case of the Koroba-Lake Kopiago Open Electorate". In Politicking and Voting in the Highlands: The 2002 Papua New Guinea National Elections. P. Gibbs, N. Haley and A. McLeod, pp. 16-26. SSGM Discussion Paper 2004/1. Canberra: SSGM, The ANU.
• 2002. "Election Fraud on a Grand Scale: The Case of the Koroba-Kopiago Open Electorate". In Maintaining Democracy: The 1997 Elections in Papua New Guinea. R. May, ed. pp. 123-139. Port Moresby: University of Papua New Guinea Press in conjunction with SSGM, The ANU.
• 2001. "Impact of the 1997 drought in the Hewa area of the Southern Highlands Province". In Food Security in Papua New Guinea. R.M. Bourke, M.G. Allen and J.G. Salisbury eds., pp. 168-189. Canberra: ACIAR.
• 1996. "Revisioning the Past, Remembering the Future: Duna Accounts of the World's End". Oceania, 60(4):278-285.

Career highlights

I was awarded the 2002 ANU Crawford Prize for Academic Excellence for my doctoral thesis entitled Ipakana Yakaiya: Mapping Landscapes, Mapping Lives - Contemporary Land Politics among the Duna.