Graduate Degrees Awarded in Anthropology
at the University of Hawai'i

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MA PhD

PhDs - 2010 to present

Name Year Chair Subfield Dissertation Title
Alexander Morrison 2012 Hunt Archaeology An Archaeological Analysis of Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile) Settlement Structure
Eric Cunningham 2012 Yano Cultural The Unseen Forest: Spectacles of Nature and Governance in a Japanese National Forest
Scott Kikiloi 2012 Graves Archaeology Kukulu Manamana: Ritual Power and Religious Expansion in Hawaii. The Ethnohistoric and Archaeological Study of Mokumanamana and Nihoa Islands
Hyeon Ju Lee 2012 White Cultural May I Call You North Korean? Negotiating Differences and Imagining the Nation in South Korea
Naomi Yamada 2012 Arno Cultural Education as Tautology: Disparities, Preferential Policy Measures, and Preparatory Programs in Northwest China
Chien-Yuan Chen 2012 Yano Cultural Familiar Strangers Afoot in Taiwan: The Competing Social Imaginaries of East Asian Tourists
Mary Conran 2011 White Cultural Converging Interests?: Exploring the Cultural Politics of Sentimentality in Volunteer Tourism in Northern Thailand
Tu Anh Thi Vu 2011 Blake Cultural Dao Mau Religious Practices: The Soft Power and Everyday Lives of Women in Contemporary Vietnam
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Toru Yamada 2011 Arno Cultural Translating Power: The Fuzzy Path of Law from International Convention
to Local Politics in Japan
Forrest Young 2011 Arno Discursive Practices

Unwriting "Easter Island": Listening to Rapa Nui
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Paul Anthony Christensen 2010 Yano Cultural The Fragility of Sobriety: Alcoholism and Masculinity in Japan
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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
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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
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