The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs, An Exhibition of Cover Art at the University of Hawaii, Manoa

Celebrating Connections: 60 Years of Pacific Islands Studies at Manoa
The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs, An Exhibition of Cover Art
The University of Hawaii, Manoa

The Contemporary Pacific: A Journal of Island Affairs is the world's leading scholarly journal on current Pacific Affairs. With editorial offices at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa's Center for Pacific Islands Studies (CPIS), TCP encompasses a wide range of disciplines with the aim of providing comprehensive coverage of contemporary developments in the entire Pacific Islands region, including Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. It features refereed articles examining social, economic, political, ecological, and cultural topics, along with political reviews, book and media reviews, resource reviews, and a dialogue section with interviews and short essays.

In 2002, under the editorship of CPIS Professor (now Director) Vilsoni Hereniko, the journal also began highlighting the work of contemporary Pacific Islander artists. Thus far, artists from Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Vanuatu, New Zealand, Guam, Solomon Islands, Norfolk Island, Samoa, and Hawaiʻi nei have been featured.

This exhibit includes the covers of the issues from 2003 to the present, with information about the artists whose work appears on the covers as well as on inside pages. These covers were designed by Stacey Leong. Previous issues of The Contemporary Pacific (1989-2002), with covers designed by Barbara Pope, are also on display.

This exhibit is part of the yearlong celebration of the 60th anniversary of Pacific Islands Studies at Mānoa. For more information about CPIS programs and publications, please see www.hawaii.edu/cpis.