Andrew Kenneth Pawley (born 1941 in Sydney), FRSNZ, FAHA,[1] is Emeritus Professor at the School of Culture, History and Language of the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University.
Pawley took sabbaticals at Berkeley (1983), Frankfurt (1994) and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (2001).
Currently, he is Professor Emeritus at Australian National University's College of Asia and the Pacific.
Pawley's research interests include Austronesian and Papuan languages and cultures, the prehistory of Pacific Island peoples, folk taxonomies and ethnobiology, lexicography, phraseology, and idiomaticity.
Since the mid-1990s, he has been collaborating with Malcolm Ross and Meredith Osmond on the Oceanic Lexicon Project, an encyclopedic series using lexical comparisons to reconstruct the culture and environment of Proto-Oceanic speakers.