Melinda S. Allen has over 40 years of archaeological experience in the Pacific, including Cultural Resources Management projects. As a Bishop Museum Research Anthropologist (1990-96), she was involved in varied archaeological and interpretive projects, including Project Manager for an exhibition on Polynesian voyaging. Dr. Allen joined the University of Auckland in 1996, teaching into both undergraduate and graduate programs. Now partly retired, she continues to supervise doctoral students and conduct research. She has carried out archaeological and ethnographic field studies in the Marquesas, southern Cook Islands, Hawai‘i, Aotearoa New Zealand, and the Philippines. She has published numerous scholarly articles on human palaeoecology, Polynesian settlement histories, human-climate interactions, and marine fisheries.
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