Jacqueline Hazen is a sociocultural anthropologist whose work focuses on the lives and movements of people, objects, and practices from Oceania. She has conducted long-term fieldwork with Micronesians on the island of Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia and on the island of Guam. She filmed, edited, and produced Island to Island — a short documentary which showcases how young cultural practitioners integrate oli, Hawaiian chant, into their lives on the island of Manhattan — through New York University’s Program in Culture and Media. In October 2020, she began a postdoctoral fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History where she has been mapping the museum's entangled anthropological, biological, and mineral collections from Pohnpei.