Rate My Professor Kalissa Alexeyeff

Alexeyeff has published extensively on these topics. Notable books include Dancing from the Heart: Movement, Gender and Cook Islands Globalization (2009), which investigates the significance of dance to Cook Islands femininity through colonial history and contemporary global manifestations; Gender on the Edge: Transgender, Gay, and Other Pacific Islanders (co-edited with Niko Besnier, 2014), recipient of the 2015 ICAS Book Prize Reading Committee Edited Volume Accolade in the Social Sciences; and contributions to Unequal Lives: Gender, Race and Class in the Western Pacific (2021). Selected articles encompass "Globalizing Drag in the Cook Islands: Friction, Repulsion, and Abjection" (The Contemporary Pacific, 2007) and "Dragging Drag: The Performance of Gender and Sexuality in the Cook Islands" (2010). She has served as Vice President of the Australian Association for Pacific Studies since 2012 and as an editorial board member of American Ethnologist since 2015. Her scholarship influences Pacific studies, feminist theory, ethnography, and the anthropology of sex and gender.