Dr Romitesh Kant
ANU Department of Pacific Affairs
Romitesh Kant is a Fiji-born political scientist whose research examines gender, political institutions and power in the Pacific. His recently completed PhD at The Australian National University explored how masculinities are produced, contested and maintained within Fiji’s political parties, and how gendered institutional arrangements shape political leadership, authority and participation. His broader research interests include comparative politics, democracy and governance, feminist institutionalism, decolonial approaches, constitutional politics, political representation, and the gendered dimensions of regional security and geopolitics. His current work focuses on developing the thesis into a book and building a wider research agenda on masculinities, security and geopolitics in the Pacific. His research has appeared in Democratization, The Round Table, the Australian Journal of International Affairs, the Journal of Pacific History and other publications.