Dr. Kalissa Alexeyeff
Dr Kalissa Alexeyeff
Contact
E: k.alexeyeff@unimelb.edu.au
T: + 61 3 8344 9895
Office: Room 510, John Medley Building
Postal address:
School of Social and Political Sciences
The University of Melbourne,
Melbourne AUSTRALIA 3010
Academic Profile
McArthur Fellow, Gender Studies Program
Kalissa Alexeyeff has a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Sociology and Anthropology, La Trobe University, a Masters in Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, Monash University and a PhD in Anthropology, The Australian National University. She has written a book Dancing from the Heart: Movement, Gender and Cook Islands Globalization (Univeristy of Hawai'i Press, 2009) which is based on 2 years fieldwork in the Cook Islands and New Zealand. It explores the significance of dance in the Cook Islands throughout colonial history and in its contemporary manifestations.
Her research interests include expressive culture in particular dance and music in the Cook Islands and the Asia-Pacific region more generally, gender politics cross-culturally, development, migration and globalisation.
Recent Publications
2009. Dancing from the Heart: Gender, Movement and Cook Islands Globalisation. Hawai'i, University of Hawai'i Press.
2009. Dancing Sexuality in the Cook Islands.(eds). Hastings Donnan and Fiona Magown. Transgressive Sex: Subversion and Control in Erotic Encounters. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books.
2008. Neoliberalism, Mobility, and Cooks Islands Men in Transit. Changing Pacific Masculinities, guest ed. John Taylor, special issue, Australian Journal of Anthropology. 19(2): 136-149.
2008. Globalizing Drag in the Cook Islands: Friction, Repulsion and Abjection. Moving Masculinities: Memories and Bodies across Oceania, guest ed. Margaret Jolly, special issue, Contemporary Pacific 20(1): 143–161.
2008. Are You Being Served? Sex, Humour and Globalisation in the Cook Islands. guest eds. Y. Musharbash and J. Carty, special issue. Anthropological Forum 18 (3): 227-233.