Recent Faculty Honors and Awards

Recent and current achievements, for complete listings and/or publication records please consult individual Faculty Bios.

Nina Etkin

2009 Distinguished Economic Botanist for 2009, awarded by the Society for Economic Botany recognizing "a career of significant contributions" to the field.

Scientific Committee, International Congress of Ethnobotany, San Carlos de Barilochie, Patagonia, Argentina (will convene in 2009).

Michael Graves (Emeritus)

2006-08 Research Experience for Undergraduates Site: Integrating the Study of Hawaiian Landscapes through Archaeology, Geography, Hawaiian Studies, and History. Grant funded by the National Science Foundation, Washington D.C.

2005-08 An Integrative Historical and Archaeological Study of the Rise to Leadership of Kamehameha the Great, Hawai‘i (with Kehauani C. Cachola-Abad). Grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington D.C.

Michael Pietrusewsky

2009 Excellence in Research Award, College of Social Sciences, University of Hawaii

2008-2012 Associate Editor of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology

2006 College of Social Sciences Award for Excellence in Research, University of Hawaii.

Leslie E. Sponsel

Editorial Advisory Board for the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict (2006 -2008).

Reviewer for special issue of the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture (2007).

Miriam Stark

Board of Directors (2004-2007), Society for American Archaeology: Member-at-Large.

Geoff White

2007 Guest Professor. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Marseille and Paris. Formation a la Recherche dans l'aire Oceanienne (FRAO), Paris, and Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Océanie (CREDO), Marseille. May 17 - June 15.

Editorial Board. American Ethnologist (2002-2007).

Christine Yano

2006 Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum A. Verville Fellowship. (Airborne Dreams).

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