Qualifications &
Academic Articles

Curriculum Vitae

Academic Articles, Political Reviews, Book Reviews, Reports, Dissertations

Forthcoming. Brian Alofaituli, Dionne Fonoti, Bettina von Briskorn. “Change of Perspective – The Appropriation and Restitution of a Samoan Prow Seen From Different Angles.” Transfer Journal.

Alofaituli, B. (2025) "Samoa Tuna Cannery Workers in American Samoa." In Samoa's New Labour Trade: Mobility, Morality and Money, eds Alexeyeff, A., Schoeffel, P., and Meleisea, M.

Alofaituli, B. (2025). "The Rev. Newell's Dilemma: Responding to Lauaki's Mau a Pule Movement." Journal of Pacific History. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223344.2024.2394100

Briskorn, Bettina von and Brian Alofaituli (2024). "Provenance Research on a Prow Taken by Germans from a Taumualua War Canoe in 1888." Ubersee-Museum Bremen. Bremen, Germany.

Fonoti, D., Jackmond, G., and B. Alofaituli (2024). "Humans of Apia: Building a Chronology of Pre-Colonial Human Activity in the Nu'u Mavae of Apia". Journal of Samoan Studies, 14(1), 65-88.

Alofaituli, B. T. (2023). “Religion and development in Samoa: Time to draw on the strength of local culture?” Development Policy Review. DOI: 10.1111/dpr.12746.

Alofaituli, B. T. (2023). "The Platform: The Radical Legacy of the Polynesian Panthers." The Journal of Pacific History 58 (3), 314–315.

Alofaituli, B. T. (2023). American Sāmoa and Sāmoa. The Contemporary Pacific, 35(1).

Alofaituli, B. T. (2022). "Tui-Manu'a Elisara and the American Mormon 'Intruders." American Religion (Bloomington, Ind. : 2019), 3(2), 91–96. https://doi.org/10.2979/amerreli.3.2.07

Alofaituli, B. T. (2022). Sāmoa. The Contemporary Pacific, 34(1), 210–216. https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2022.0024

Alofaituli, B. T. (2021). "Tui Manu’a Elisara’s conflict with American Ideologies." Journal of Samoan Studies, 11(1), 90–93.

Alofaituli, B. T. (2021). American Sāmoa and Sāmoa. The Contemporary Pacific, 33(1), 173–182. https://doi.org/10.1353/cp.2021.0009

Alofaituli, B. T. (2018). Review of "Tautai: Samoa, World History, and the Life of Ta'isi O. F. Nelson," by Patricia O'Brien. University of Hawai‘i Press.

Alofaituli, B. T. (2018). "The 1918 influenza epidemic in Sāmoa and the Samoa Church (LMS)." Journal of Samoan Studies, 8, 34–44.

Alofaituli, B. T. (2017). Indigenous Protest in Colonial Samoa: The Mau Movements and the Response of the London Missionary Society, 1900-1935. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

Alofaituli, B. T. (2014). “Pacific Histories: Ocean, Land, People,” Armitage, David and Alison Bashford, eds. The Pacific Circle, No. 33.

Alofaituli, B. T. (2012). "Language development curriculum within the Samoan Congregational churches in the diaspora," thesis, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

Alofaituli, B. T. (2011). “The Place Where My Pute was Buried.” East-West Center. Impulse Journal.

Blog

Dr. Alofaituli's Blog - https://alofaituli.wordpress.com/

Podcast

(2021 November) "The Deeds of Cession Between the U.S. and Eastern Islands of Samoa - The Treaty Series." In Native Stories Podcasts. https://nativestories.org/deeds-of-cession-eastern-samoa-treaty-series/

Keynote Address

Alofaituli, B. T. (2023). International Archival Day 9 June, Ministry of Education, Sports and Culture (MESC), Malifa, Samoa.

Qualifications & Academic Articles