Ph.D. Degrees awarded in Anthropology
at the University of Hawai'i 2000 to present

PhDs 1967-1979	PhDs 1980-1989	PhDs 1990-1999	PhDs 2000-	MAs 1930-1959
MAs 1960-1969	MAs 1970-1979	MAs 1980-1989	MAs 1990-1999	MAs 2000-

Name	Year	Chair	Subfield	Dissertation Title
Forrest Young	2011	Arno	Discursive Practices	Unwriting "Easter Island": Listening to Rapa Nui
Paul Anthony Christenson	2010	Yano	Cultural	The Fragility of Sobriety: Alcoholism and Masculinity in Japan
Satomi Fukutomi	2010	Yano	Cultural	Connoisseurship of B-Grade Culture: Consuming Japanese National Food Ramen
Rona Michi Ikehara	2010	Pietrusewsky	Bio-archaeology/ Physical	An Assessment of Health in Early Historic (200 B.C. to A.D. 200) Inhabitants of Vat Komnou, Angkor Borei, Southern Cambodia: A Bioarchaeological Perspective
Stephen Bercasio Acabado	2010	Stark	Archaeology	The Archaeology of the Ifugao Agricultural Terraces: Antiquity and Social Organization
Suzanne Scott Finney	2010	Graves	Archaeology	Toward an Understanding of Nineteenth-Century Whaling Practices: A Risk Sensitivity Model for Whaling Agents and Masters
Hirofumi Katsuno	2010	Yano	Cultural	Materializing Dreams: Humanity, Masculinity, and the Nation in Contemporary Japanese Robot Culture
Margaret Bodemer	2010	White	Cultural	Museums, Ethnology and the Politics of Culture in Contemporary Vietnam
Lisa Humphrey	2009	White	Cultural	Land, Memory and the State: "Official" and Other Histories in Waya Island, Fiji
Yoon Young Kim	2009	White	Cultural	Making National Subjects: Education and Adaptation Among North Korean Immigrants in South Korea
Hung Yu Ru	2009	White	Cultural	Invisible People and a Silent Killer Disease: A Historical Ethnographic Study of Liver Disease Among the Truku in Easter Taiwan
Sipos, Jessica Busch	2008	Etkin	Cultural	The Way of Choju: Self Sufficiency, Health, and Longevity in Ashikita Town, An Agrarian Community in Southern Japan
Dudgeon, John Vede	2008	Hunt	Archaeology	The Genetic Architecture of the late Prehistoric and Protohistoric Rapanui
Genz, Joseph Howard	2008	Finney	Cultural	Marshallese Navigation and Voyaging: Relearning and Reviving Indigenous Knowledge of the Ocean
Maret, Jeffrey Daniel	2008	Yano	Cultural	An Ethnography of Invisibility: Education and Special Needs Children in Japan
McMillen, Heather Lynn	2008	Etkin	Cultural	Conserving the Roots of Trade: Local Ecological Knowledge of Ethnomedicines from Tanga, Tanzania Markets
Spoon, Jeremy Daniel	2008	Etkin	Cultural	Tourism in a Sacred Landscape: Political Economy and Sherpa Ecological Knowledge in Beyul Khumbu/Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal
Ledward, Brandon Clint	2007	Yano	Cultural	Inseparably Hapa: Making and Unmaking a Hawaiian Monolith
McElroy, Windy Keala	2007	Graves	Archaeology	The Development of Irrigated Agriculture in Wailau Valley, Molokai Island, Hawai'i
Pigliasco, Guido Carlo	2007	Arno	Cultural	The Custodians of the Gift: Intangible Cultural Property and Commodification of the Fijian Firewalking Ceremony
West, Eic Wayne	2007	Rolett	Archaeology	An Archaeological Investigation of Pig Husbandry on Tahuata Island, Marquesas, French Polynesia
King, Christopher	2006	Pietrusewsky	Biological	Paleodietary Change among Pre-State Metal Age Societies in Northeast Thailand: A Stable Isotope Approach
Shepardson, Britton Leif	2006	Graves	Archaeology	Explaining Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Energy Investment in the Prehistoric Statuary of Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
Addison, David J.	2006	Graves	Archaeology	Feast or Famine? Predictability, Density, Drought, and Irrigation: The Archaeology of Agriculture in Marquesas Islands Valleys
Loscalzo, Aunchalee	2006	Etkin	Medical/ Ecological	Populations in Transition, Medicines in Motion: Migration, Health, and Healing in Echang Hamlet, Republic of Palau, Micronesia
Samudra, Jaida	2006	White	Cultural	Body and Belonging in a Transnational Indonesian Silat Community
Guelden, Marlane	2005	Yano	Cultural	Thai Spirit Mediums: Reconstructing Conceptions of Gender, Hierarchy, & Religion
Bollt, Robert J.	2005	Rolett	Archaeology	The Archaeology of Rurutu: Its Role in East Polynesian Prehistory
Bith, Pollie D.	2004	Etkin	Applied	Mango Illness: Health Decisions and the Use of Biomedical and Traditional Therapies in Cambodia
Cochrane, Ethan E.	2004	Hunt	Archaeology	Interacting Populations and Evolutionary Processes: Building Explanations of Exchange and Integration in Fiji
Dolcemascolo, Glenn	2004	Sponsel	Cultural	Universitas Rakyat: Managing Natural Resources in the Face of Change
Inoue, Akihiro	2003	Dewey	Cultural	An Ethnographic Study of the Construction of Hawaiian Christianity in the Past and the Present
Bong, Sovath	2003	Griffin	Archaeology	The Ceramic Chronology of Angkor Borei, Takeo Province, Southern Cambodia
DaGrossa, Pamela S.	2003	Bilmes	Cultural	The Meanings of Sex: University Students in Northeast Thailand
Dixon, Anna R.	2003	Etkin	Cultural	Health and Wealth: Dietary Supplements, Network Marketing and the Commodification of Health
Field, Julie S.	2003	Hunt	Archaeology	The Evolution of Competition and Cooperation in Fijian Prehistory: Archaeological Research in the Sigatoka Valley, Fiji
Nogelmeier, Marvin R.	2003	Finney	Cultural	Mai Pa`a I Ka Leo: Historical Voice in Hawaiian Primary Materials, Looking Forward and Listening Back
Cruz, Lynette	2003	Griffin	Cultural	Sovereignty, Process and the "Sacred Community"
Kinoshita, Gaku	2003	Yano	Cultural	Puna Sugar Plantation: Culture and History of Japanese American Oldtimers
Suzuki, Nobue	2003	Lebra	Cultural	Wives From Asia: Gender, Person, and Community in Japanese-Filipina Marriages in Urban Japan
Tengan, Ty	2003	White	Cultural	Hale Mua: (En)gendering Hawaiian Men
Walsh, Julie	2003	White	Cultural	Imagining the Marshalls: Chiefs, Tradition, and the State on the Fringes of US Empire
Carson, Michael T.	2002	Rolett	Archaeology	Inter-cultural Contact and Exchange in Ouvea (Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia)
Crowder, Linda S.	2002	Blake	Cultural	Mortuary Practices and the Construction of Chinatown Identity
Brent, Morgan T.	2001	Sponsel	Ecology	Spiritual Ecology and Medicinal Plants: Contemporary Herbalism as a Neo-Indigenous Revitalization Movement
Mann, Robert W.	2001	Pietrusewsky	Physical	Stafne's Defects of the Human Mandible
Costa, LeeRay	2001	White	Cultural	Developing Identitities: The Production of Gender, Culture and Modernity in a Northern Thai Non-Governmental Organization
Dega, Michael Francis	2001	Griffin	Archaeology	Prehistoric Circular Earthworks of Cambodia
Gollin, Lisa	2001	Etkin	Medical	The Taste and Smell of Taban Kenyah (Kenyah Medicine): An Exploration of Chemosensory Selection Criteria for Medicinal Plants among the Kenyah Leppo'ke of East Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia
Abad, Carolyn Kehaunani	2000	Graves	Archaeology	An Analysis of Hawaiian Oral Traditions: Descriptions and Explanations of the Evolution of Hawaiian Socio-Political Complexity
Leake, David W.	2000	Bilmes	Cultural	Cultural Models Relevant to the Problem of Anger for Youngster Perceived as Troubled and Troubling in a 'Tough' Community in Hawa'i

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Ph.D. Degrees awarded in Anthropology at the University of Hawai'i 2000 to present

Ph.D. Degrees awarded in Anthropology
at the University of Hawai'i 2000 to present