Craig Alan Volker

Craig Alan Volker

Dr Craig Alan Volker has written extensively about Papua New Guinean languages and is keenly interested in the use of local languages in modern contexts.

He is currently an Adjunct Professor in The Cairns Institute of James Cook University in Queensland, Australia and was formerly Professor of Languages at Gifu Shōtoku Gakuen University in Japan and Professor of Linguistic Research at Divine Word University in Madang, Papua New Guinea.

He has been a visiting professor in the Post-Colonial Linguistics Unit at the University of Bremen, a Jakob Függer Visiting Professor at the University of Augsburg, and a visiting instructor of Tok Pisin at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Craig Alan lives in Madina Village in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, where he is a Wangpaang (Assistant Talking Chief) of the Moxomaraba (Sea Eagle) clan, of the Nalik people.