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2011

• Forrest Young successfully defended his dissertation on "Unwriting Easter Island".

2010

June

• Congratulations to Gregory Maskarinec for receiving a Fulbright Award to return to his work in Nepal, where he will also teach at Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu during the coming academic year. See the press release here. Gregory, a graduate of the UHM anthropology program, is Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the UH Mānoa Medical School.

May

• Neal Akatsuka receives anthropology awards

March

• Anthropology Occasional Seminar: Jennie Jin presents, "Zooarchaeological and taphonomic analysis of the archaeofaunal assemblage from Tangzigou, southwest China"; March 19^th at 3:00 p.m. in Crawford 105.
• Department closed over Spring Break, March 22-26
• Pacific Islands Occasional Seminar: Ilana Gershon presents, "The Origins of Maori in Parliament: The 1867 Maori Representation Act in New Zealand"; March 15^th at 12:00 p.m. in Moore 319.

February

• Emeritus Prof. Alice Dewey to present "On Surviving against the Odds: Teaching and Editing S. Ann Dunham"; Thursday February 4, 12:00 pm, Henke Hall 325

January

• The 21st Annual Symposium on Maritime Archaeology and History of Hawaii and the Pacific will be held February 13-15 in Honolulu
• The UH Anthropology department has launched a new Asian Archaeology and Physical Anthropology web page

2009

November

• Prof. Yano to speak on “Post-racial Obama in Japan? Struggles of Blood Ideology amid Calls for Change”, Nov. 18, 12:00, Burns Hall 2118
• Prof. Tengan to speak in Fall Festival of Writers, Nov. 19
• Anthropology Alumnus Prof. Puakea Nogelmeier to be interviewed on PBS television Tuesday November 3, 7:30 pm

October

• Congratulations to Stephen B. Acabado for defending his dissertation "The Archaeology of the Ifugao Agricultural Terraces: Antiquity and Social Organization."
• Congratulations to UH graduate student Kelley L. Uyeoka for receiving a First Nations Future Fellowship award
• The Department remembers Roger Green, UHM Pacific Island Chair, 1981-1982
• Tanya Souza's Hawaii Jr. Archaeology Program is bringing archaeology education to the local school system
• Community radio program launched by Professor Christine Yano in collaboration with others at the JCCH
• On October 24th, the Department will be hosting a day-long symposium and evening dinner banquet as part of our 75th Anniversary events

September

• UH Anthropology PhD Student Kekuewa Kikiloi has recently been recognized in the news for a recent archaeological project on Mokumanamana (or Necker Island) in the NW Hawaiian Islands
• Registration materials and preliminary program information are now available for the Society of Hawaiian Archaeology's (SHA) 23rd annual Hawaiian Archaeology Conference

May

• Duke Press to Publish posthumous book of Ann Dunham, revised and edited by Alice Dewey and Nancy Cooper; Dunham was a graduate of the UHM doctoral program and mother of President Obama
• Tree planting memorial for Dr. Etkin, May 7th

April

• Join the Hawai'i Junior Archaeology Outreach Program
• The April 2009 issue of the International Society for Ethnopharmacology Newsletter is dedicated to the memory of Prof. Nina Etkin.
• Dr. Christine Beaule is organizing a Latin American and Iberian Studies Undergraduate Research Seminar to be held 5/1/0; click here for the call for contributions flyer; submissions due by 4/13/09
• Dr. Alice Dewey to present on Ann Dunham at Distinctive Women in Hawaiian History conference, 4/25/09, 2:30 pm at the Hawai'i Convention Center

March

• Dr. Victor Paz presents "History and the History of Archaeology in the Philippines," 4/3/09, 12:00 in Moore 315

February

• Department cosponsors Pacific conference
• New Takie Sugiyama Lebra Anthropology Scholarship for graduate students focusing in Japan
• Nina L. Etkin Memorial Fund established to sußpport graduate students [click to donate]

January

• Memorial gathering planned for Prof. Etkin
• Prof. Nina Etkin honored with national award as Distinguished Economic Botanist for 2009
• Prof. Alex Golub's research featured in WoW Insider
• Anthro. Ph.D. Candidate Stephen Acabado to give Phillipine Studies Colloquium on Ifugao Rice terraces, 2/2/09, 12:00, Moore 319

2008

December

• Dr. Ty Tengan publishes new book, Native Men Remade: Gender and Nation in Contemporary Hawai'i
• Department plans 75th anniversary commemorative events

November

• Ann Dunham, mother of President-elect Barack Obama and UH Anthropology alumnus, in the news
• Stories to Tell and Pacific Clues television series feature UH archaeologists

October

• Department launches redesigned website

August

• Three new faculty take up positions in the Department

page last updated March 27, 2011