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Nicholas Thomas
Nicholas Thomas first visited the Pacific in 1984 to undertake research in the Marquesas Islands; he has since travelled extensively in Oceania and in particular spent time in Fiji, Tahiti, Hawai‘i, Niue and Aotearoa. His books include Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire (2012), which was awarded the Wolfson History Prize, Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific (2021) and several collaborations with Pacific artists such as the photographer Mark Adams and painter John Pule. Oceania, which Thomas co-curated with Peter Brunt for the Royal Academy of Arts in London and the Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac in Paris in 2018–19, was acclaimed as a landmark exhibition. Since 2006, Thomas has been professor of historical anthropology, director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Contact: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, UK.