Book Chapters
McGavin, Kirsten (2020). Measuring mixed race: ‘We the Half-Castes of Papua and New Guinea’. The Palgrave International Handbook of Mixed Racial and Ethnic Classification. (pp. 727-739) edited by Zarine L. Rocha and Peter J. Aspinall. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-22874-3_38
Johnson, Helen and McGavin, Kirsten (2017). Constructing and interpreting mixed race and mixed parentage in Papua New Guinea. Mixed race identities in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. (pp. 103-115) edited by Kirsten McGavin and Farida Fozdar. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315559391-14
McGavin, Kirsten (2017). (Be)longings: diasporic Pacific Islanders and the meaning of home. Mobilities of return: Pacific perspectives. (pp. 123-146) edited by John Taylor and Helen Lee. Acton ACT, Australia: ANU Press. doi: 10.22459/MR.12.2017
Fozdar, Farida and McGavin, Kirsten (2016). Introduction: ‘Mixed Race’ in the Australo-Pacific region. Mixed race identities in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. (pp. 1-15) New York NY United States: Taylor and Francis.
Journal Articles
McGavin, Kirsten (2016). Where do you belong? Identity, New Guinea islanders, and the power of Peles. Oceania, 86 (1), 57-74. doi: 10.1002/ocea.5112
McGavin, Kirsten (2015). Representations of Pacific Islander identity: ours and theirs. Pacific Studies, 38, 272-293.
McGavin, Kirsten (2014). Being "nesian": Pacific islander identity in Australia. Contemporary Pacific, 26 (1), 126-154. doi: 10.1353/cp.2014.0013
Conference Paper
Johnson, H. and McGavin, K. (2004). Constructing and interpreting 'mixed race' and 'mixed parentage' in Papua New Guinea. Second Biennial Conference Indian Association for Asian & Pacific Studies, Sambalpur,, 29-31 January, 2004. Kolkata, India: Indian Association for Asian & Pacific Studies.
Thesis
McGavin, Kirsten (2007). Tourism, Gender and Ethnicity in West New Britain. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, University of Queensland.