“Safua Akeli Amaama is Head of the Department of Ethnology and Curator of the Oceania Collection at the Übersee Museum in Bremen. Previously, she was Head of New Zealand and Pacific Histories and Cultures at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (2020-2025) and Director of the Centre for Sāmoan Studies at the National University of Sāmoa (2018-2020) where she oversaw three teaching programmes: Sāmoan Language and Culture, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, and Development Studies. Safua has research interests in cultural heritage, gender, governance, health and migration.”