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
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Name Year Chair Subfield Dissertation Title
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
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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)
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Crowder, Linda S. 2002 Blake Cultural

Mortuary Practices and the Construction of Chinatown Identity
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Brent, Morgan T.

2001

Sponsel

Ecology

Spiritual Ecology and Medicinal Plants: Contemporary Herbalism as a Neo-Indigenous Revitalization Movement
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Mann, Robert W.

2001

Pietrusewsky

Physical

Stafne's Defects of the Human Mandible
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Costa, LeeRay

2001

White

Cultural

Developing Identitities: The Production of Gender, Culture and Modernity in a Northern Thai Non-Governmental Organization
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Dega, Michael Francis

2001

Griffin

Archaeology

Prehistoric Circular Earthworks of Cambodia
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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
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Abad, Carolyn Kehaunani

2000

Graves

Archaeology

An Analysis of Hawaiian Oral Traditions: Descriptions and Explanations of the Evolution of Hawaiian Socio-Political Complexity
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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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