DrTalei Mangioni

Dr Talei Mangioni is the G.C. Henderson Postdoctoral Research Associate in Pacific History at the discipline of History in the School of Humanities. She was raised on Gadigal and Bidjigal lands with maternal ties to Fiji. Her PhD research charted the critical and creative histories of the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific movement with a particular focus on print culture, radio and pedagogy. She is currently in the process of revising her dissertation for publication as a monograph. She is also working on another book project about the 'Libyan Scare' in Oceania from 1984–88 with Pacific journalist Nic Maclellan. 

Prior to joining the University of Sydney, Talei worked as a research assistant for the ARC Discovery Indigenous project 'Reimagining the Humanities through Indigenous Creative Arts' at the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University and as a course convenor and tutor for Pacific Studies courses at the School of Culture, History and Language at the Australian National University. She has also worked closely and collaborated with the Oceania Working Party of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, ICAN Australia and Youngsolwara Pacific.