Michael Goddard
Department of Anthropology
Macquarie University
Australia
Biography
I have been doing anthropological research in Papua New Guinea since 1985. My earliest fieldwork, in 1985/86, was in the Upper Kaugel Valley of the Western Highlands Province, where I studied local ideas about madness for my PhD dissertation at the University of Auckland. This was never published, but more than two decades later I was persuaded by a colleague to produce a book based on that fieldwork. In 1990, I returned to Papua New Guinea and lectured at the University of PNG for the next five years. During that period I shifted my fieldwork interests to PNG's capital city Port Moresby, where I conducted research in some of the city's much-maligned settlements and in a traditional village on the edge of the city. I also developed an interest in PNG's 'village court' system, which provides a grassroots justice service in many parts of the country. I continued my research in these fields after leaving PNG in 1995. My main research interests now are the village court system, the history of the Motu-Koita people (on whose territory the city of Port Moresby has grown) and life in Port Moresby's settlements. I have published a book on Port Moresby (The Unseen City, in 2005), another on the village courts (Substantial Justice, in 2009) and a third on on the Upper Kaugel Valley (Out of Place, in 2011). I have also edited an additional book on Port Moresby (Villagers and the City, in 2010).
Research Interest
• Leadership • Social Cognition • Organizational Justice
Publications
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Locke AE, Kahali B, Berndt SI, Justice AE, Pers TH, Day FR, Powell C, Vedantam S, Buchkovich ML, Yang J, Croteau-Chonka DC. Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology. Nature. 2015 Feb 12;518(7538):197.
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Allen HL, Estrada K, Lettre G, Berndt SI, Weedon MN, Rivadeneira F, Willer CJ, Jackson AU, Vedantam S, Raychaudhuri S, Ferreira T. Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height. Nature. 2010 Oct 14;467(7317):832.
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Speliotes EK, Willer CJ, Berndt SI, Monda KL, Thorleifsson G, Jackson AU, Allen HL, Lindgren CM, Luan JA, Mägi R, Randall JC. Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index. Nature genetics. 2010 Nov 1;42(11):937-48.
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Yang J, Benyamin B, McEvoy BP, Gordon S, Henders AK, Nyholt DR, Madden PA, Heath AC, Martin NG, Montgomery GW, Goddard ME. Common SNPs explain a large proportion of the heritability for human height. Nature genetics. 2010 Jul 1;42(7):565-9.
