My name is Emma Kluge. I’m a permanent Lecturer in Colonial/Postcolonial and Environmental History at the University of Exeter (Cornwall). Before this, I was a Max Weber postdoctoral fellow at the European University Institute (2021-23). I hold a PhD in History from the University of Sydney.

I am an historian of decolonisation, anticolonial and environmental activism, and global governance. I focus particularly on the development of transnational activist networks in Oceania and the interactions between these organisations and international institutions and discourses. My first book, The Limits of Decolonisation, examines the strategies West Papuan activists used to launch a global campaign for independence at the United Nations in the 1960s. My second project, The Green Pacific, investigates the intersection between anticolonial and environmental thinking and activism in Oceania across the twentieth century.