Dr. Mara Mulrooney

Dr. Mara Mulrooney edited the Rapa Nui Jounrnal (RNJ) from 2010-2020 and currently serves as co-editor of the Journal of Polynesian Archaeology and Research (JPAR) together with Dr. Jillian Swift. She first visited Rapa Nui as a student on an archaeological field school in 2001. She completed her masters and doctorate at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, where her field projects were focused on Hawaiian and Rapa Nui archaeology. She is currently a principal and senior archaeologist at Pacific Legacy, Inc. Mara previously held positions at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, where she curated a major exhibition, Rapa Nui: The Untold Stories of Easter Island in 2018-2019 that ran concurrently with a sister exhibit on Rapa Nui, Hare Tao‘a, Hare Tangata, which was a collaboration between Bishop Museum and the Museo Antropológico Padre Sebastián Englert (MAPSE).