Graduate Student Honors and Awards

Congratulations to our graduate students for numerous awards, presentations, and publications. We hope that this information will also be helpful to students looking for opportunities to advance towards their educational objectives.

Awards
Presentations
Publications

Awards

Stephen Acabado

• 2007 National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant (- 2008)
• 2007 ACLS/Luce Foundation Dissertation Fellowship to Individuals in East Asian Archaeology and Early History (- 2008)
• 2007, 2005, and 2002 Arts and Sciences Advisory Council Awards
• 2005 Dai Ho Chun Scholarship Recipient
• 2005 Graduate Student Organization Travel Grant
• 2004 John F. Embree Award for Anthropology
• 2001-2003 Asian Cultural Council
• 2001-2003 East West Center Degree Fellow

Margaret B. Bodemer

• 2009 Arts & Sciences Student Research Award
• 2008 Graduate Student Organization Travel award to present a paper at AAA
• 2006-2007 Fulbright Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad grant
• 2006 Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship for the study of Vietnamese in the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI)
• 2006 John F. Embree award for Anthropology
• 2004 Graduate Student Organization Travel award, to present paper at Australian National University Vietnam Studies Summer seminar
• 2004 Nguyen Dang Liem paper prize, UH
• 2003-2004, 2002-2003, and 2001-2002 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) awards to study Vietnamese-- from SHAPS and UH Southeast Asian Studies
• 2000 GUAVA Scholarship to attend VASI (language) program in Hanoi

Sandra Barrier-Heinz

• 2005-2007 Pacific-Asian Scholarship
• 2007 UH Graduate Student Organization (GSO) Grant
• 2007-2008 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) awards to study Tahitian

Matthew Carlsen

• 2000-2002 Crown Prince Akihito Scholarship

Marla R. Chassels

• 2009-2010 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
• 2008 (Spring & Fall), 2009 (Spring) Achievement Scholarship, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Paul Christensen

• 2009 Center for Japan Studies Dissertation Completion Fellowship
• 2007-2008 Monbukagakusho Research Scholarship
• 2007 Graduate Student Organization (GSO) student travel grant
• 2007 College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Hawai`i student travel grant
• 2005-2006 William P. Lebra Memorial Scholarship

Chien-yuan Chen

• 2009 UH Arts & Sciences Student Research Award

Mary Conran

• 2008-2009 Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Fellowship
• 2007-2008 and 2006-2007 Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowships
• 2007 Foreign Language Area Studies Summer Fellowship
• 2007 Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program, Advanced Study of Thai
• 2007 and 2005 Graduate Student Organization Travel Grants

Michelle Daigle

• 2009 Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for Japanese
• 2009-2010 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for the study of Japanese

Tani Sebro Day

• 2009-2010 Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship for the study of Thai
• Spring 2009 Departmental Merit Scholarship

Maria Luika Farias

• 2002 Renewal of Margaret Sloggett Fisher Scholarship

Shawn Fehrenbach

• 2009 UH Arts & Sciences Student Research Award
• 2008-2009, 2007-2008, and 2006-2007 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships for the study of Khmer
• 2008 Advanced Graduate Student Internship at the Missouri University Research Reactor Archaeometry Lab for the compositional analysis of ceramics
• 2008 UH Graduate Student Organization (GSO) Grant

Patricia Fifita

• 2009 Arts and Science Student Research Award
• 2009 Anthropology Department Achievement Scholarship
• 2009 USA Funds Access to Education Scholarship
• 2008-2009 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) award to study Tongan
• 2008 Stars of Oceania Scholarship
• 2008 UH Pacific Asian Scholarship
• 2008 UH Manoa Commission on the Status of Women
• 2007 East West Center Summer Travel Award
• 2006-2007 East West Center Alumni Scholarship; 2007-08 Student Affiliate
• 2007 Anthropology Department Merit Scholarship
• 2007 Anthropology Department Travel Award
• 2007 Pacific Islands Scholars’ Fund Travel Award to present at ASAO meeting
• 2006 Anthropology Department Merit Scholarship
• 2006 National Science Foundation Pacific Islands Field Training Scholarship to Roviana, Western Solomon Islands
• 2005 UH Ecology, Evolution, & Conservation Biology (EECB) Award

Suzanne Finney

• 2002 Arts & Sciences Advisory Council Award
• 2002 Inducted as a Fellow into the Explorers Club, a competitive membership category that recognizes the "explorer and field scientist [who] explores an unknown or little-known region and/or area of science in order to gain new knowledge for humankind"
• 2001 Skaggs Foundation (with Michael Graves)

Satomi Fukutomi

• 2003 Graduate Student Travel Award of the Center for Japanese Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa
• 2003 UH Graduate Student Organization Travel Award
• 2002 University of South Florida Graduate and Professional Student Organization Conference Grant

Rachel Hoerman

• 2009-2010 & 2008-2009 Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships to study Cambodian
• 2009 Achievement Scholarship, Department of Anthropology
• 2008 Achievement Scholarship, Department of Anthropology
• 2008 Arts & Sciences Advisory Council Award

Hirofumi Katsuno

• 2008 Dai Ho Chun Dissertation-Write-up Award
• 2007 William P. Lebra Memorial Scholarship awarded by the School of Hawaiian, Asian & Pacific Studies, University of Hawai'i, Manoa
• 2007 Dai Ho Chun Travel Award
• 2007 Japanese Studies Graduate Student Travel Award, University of Hawai'i, Manoa
• 2005 SSRC Japan Studies Dissertation Workshop Fellowship
• 2005 Center for Japanese Studies Scholarship awarded by the School of Hawaiian, Asian & Pacific Studies, University of Hawai'i
• 2004 Matsushita International Foundation Scholarship
• 2003 James Shigeta Scholarship awarded by the School of Hawaiian, Asian & Pacific Studies, University of Hawai'i
• 2003 and 2002 Japanese Studies Graduate Student Travel Awards
• 2002-2003 John Fee Embree Scholarship awarded by the School of Hawaiian, Asian & Pacific Studies
• 2002 Japanese Studies Graduate Student Travel Award, University of Hawai'i, Manoa
• 2000-2003 Pacific-Asian Scholarship by University of Hawai'i, Manoa
• 1999-2000 Graduate Division Tuition Waiver by University of Hawai'i, Manoa

Kekuewa Kikiloi

• 2006-2007, 2007-2008 Kamehameha Schools ‘Imi Na‘auao Scholarship
• 2005- 2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2008 Aha Pūnana Leo Lamakū Scholarship
• 2005, 2006 Hawai‘i Veterans Memorial Fund
• 2006 U.H. Mānoa College of Arts and Science Award
• 2003 Society for American Archaeology/National Science Foundation Arthur C. Parker
• Scholarship for the Archaeological Training of Native Americans and Native Hawaiian
• 1998-2000 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
• 1998 National Science Foundation Summer Mentoring Assistantship

Yoon Young Kim

• 2008 Student Affiliate, East-West Center
• 2007 East-West Center Field Research Funds
• 2005-2008 Graduate Degree Fellow, East-West Center
• 2003-2005 Student Affiliate, East-West Center 
• 2003-2004 Pacific Asian Scholarship Award

Hyeon Ju Lee

• 2008-2009 Center for Korean Studies Graduate Student Scholarship
• 2008 East West Center Field Research Grant
• 2007-2008 Donald E. Kim Scholarship, Center for Korean Studies
• 2007-2008 Visiting Scholar, Yonsei University
• 2007 Global Consortium for the Centers for Korean Studies Graduate Students Workshop Travel Grant
• 2005-2008 East West Center Graduate Degree Fellowship
• 2005 Pacific Asian Scholarship Award (Tuition Waiver)
• 2004-2005 Asian Pacific Tuition Differential Exemption

Regina Woodrom Luna

• 2008 Graduate Student Organization Travel Grant. UHM Graduate Student Organization
• 2008 International Sea Turtle Society. Symposium Presenter Travel Award.
• 2002-2005 Pacific Asian Scholarship, Dept. Of Anthropology UHM; Fall '02 & '04, Spr '03, '04 & '05
• 2000-2002 Tuition Waiver Award, Dept. Of Anthropology UHM Fall '00, Spr '01, Fall '01, Spr '02

Tamara Luthy

• 2009 Arts & Sciences Student Research Award
• 2009 Departmental Achievement Scholarship

Alex E. Morrison

• 2009 Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid
• 2009 GeoEys Foundation imagery grant
• 2008 Collaborating researcher -Mia J. Tegner Memorial Research Grant in Marine Environmental History and Historical marine Ecology
• 2008 Arts and Science Advisory Council Award
• 2003 Honorable Mention National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
• 2002, 2004, 2005 Foreign Language Area Scholarship (FLAS)

Dick Page

• 2009 Summer Foreign Language Assistance Fellowship to study Chinese in Dalian, Liaoning, PRC
• 2008 Achievement Scholarship, Department of Anthropology, UH-Manoa

Jesse Stephen

• 2006 Visiting Scholar, University of Oxford - Institute of Archaeology, Michaelmas Term
• 2005-2006 and 2004-2005 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships

Kelli Swazey

• 2008-2010 East West Center Graduate Fellowship
• 2008-09 Fulbright IIE Grant (declined); Fulbright Hays Grant
• 2006 East West Center Student Affiliate Award
• 2005-2008 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
• 2005 Fulbright Grant for COTIM (Consortium of Teaching Indonesian and Malay) at Universitas Sam Ratulangi

Ashley Vaughan

• 2009 UH Arts & Sciences Student Research Award
• 2009 UH Graduate Student Organization (GSO) Grant
• 2007-2008 UH Anthropology Departmental Merit Scholarship

Naomi Furnish Yamada

• 2008-2009, 2007-2008, 2006 -2007, and 2005 -2006 Grants, BP Foundation Scholarship Fund, administered by the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara
• 2006 Student Affiliate, East-West Center
• 2004 - 2005 Pacific Asian Scholarship

Toru Yamada

• 2006 Center for Japanese Studies Graduate Student Travel Awards
• 2005 - 2006 Hayano Sasaki Scholarship
• 2005 - 2006 Pacific Asian Scholarship
• 2005 - 2006 Student Affiliate, East-West Center (through 2006)
• 2004 - 2005 and 2003 - 2004 Crown Prince Akihito Scholar

Presentations

Stephen Acabado

Session Organized:

"Trade, Social Interaction, and Political Economy in Southeast Asian Archaeology", Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association 2006 Meeting, Manila, Philippines, March 19-26, 2006 (Cy Calugay and Wannasarn Noonsuk, co-organizers)

Paper Presentations:

"Landscape and Social Organization: The Social Organization of the Ifugao, Northern Luzon, Philippines", Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association 2006 Meeting, Manila, Philippines, March 2006.

"The Ifugao Cultural Landscape: Distribution of Agricultural Fields", Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association 2006 Meeting, Manila, Philippines, March 2006.

"A GIS-Based Analysis of the Ifugao Landscape: Implications for Archaeological Studies of Agricultural Intensification", 2nd National Cordillera Studies Conference, University of the Philippines Baguio, Baguio City, Philippines, Nov. 17-18, 2005.

"Land Use and Agricultural Intensification: A GIS-Based Analysis of the Ifugao Landscape, Northern Philippines", Archaeological Studies Program Brown Bag Seminar, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Q.C., August 6, 2003.

Sandra Barrier-Heinz

2006. “Beautiful Bodies, Sick Bodies: Transcending Health Concerns Through Discourses of Identity and Cultural Revitalization in Polynesia”.
   February 2006. Meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology of Oceania, San Diego, CA.
   March 2006. UHM School of Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Studies Graduate Student Conference, Honolulu, HI.
   April 2006. University of Stanford, Graduate Student Conference in Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford, CA.

Margaret B. Bodemer

2008. Presentation: “Doi Moi in the Museum: Engaging Social Issues in an Anthropology Museum in Contemporary Vietnam,” in Representation, Cultural Heritage and the Construction of Identity, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Nov. 19.

2008. Group presentation: “ScholarSpace: Building a Southeast Asian Digital Collection at UH Libraries,” Brown Bag Lecture Series, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Hawai’i, with Beth Tillinghast and Rohayati Paseng, Sept. 19.

2008. Paper: “Museums, anthropology and the work of representing culture in contemporary Vietnam: Genealogies of Museums and Anthropology in colonial Indochina,” American Association for the Advancement of Science, Pacific Division, Waimea, Hawai’i, in session “Missionaries and Museums, Imperialists and Nationalists, State Needs and Cold-War Politics: Anthropology in East and Southeast Asia,” June.

2007. Invited presentation: “12 months of research in Vietnamese museums,” Vietnam Museum of Ethnology (in Vietnamese), Oct.

2006. Panel discussant: “Cultural and Religious Practices in a Globalizing World,” in Approaching Vietnamese Contemporary Cultures: Methodology and New Studies, Institute of Cultural Studies, Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences, Hanoi, Vietnam, Dec. 5-6.

2006. Presentation: “Museums and the Politics of the Past in Contemporary Vietnam,” Department of Anthropology Annual Student Symposium, University of Hawai’i, April.

2004. Invited lecture: “Contemporary Vietnamese Religion,” for Michigan State University Fulbright Teachers study group, “Vietnam, Beyond the War,” Hanoi, June 21.

2004. Presentation: “Ram Thang Bay and Popular Religion in Contemporary Vietnam: Practice, Belief and Identity” School of Hawaiian, Asian & Pacific Studies Graduate Student Conference, University of Hawai’i, March 17.

2004. Presentation: “The Tet Trung Nguyen festival in Contemporary Viet Nam: Ritual, Belief and Identity,”Australian National University Vietnam Studies Summer School, Feb.6.

2003. Presentation: “Exploratory Fieldwork in Vietnam: Lessons Learned,” Department of Anthropology symposium: “Notes from the Field: Current Research,” University of Hawai’i, Oct. 23.

2002. Presentation: “Images of Viet Nam: Looking at Touristic Media,” Culture and Preservation conference, University of Hawai’i, April.

2002. Presentation: “Vernacular Religion and Votive Paper in Viet Nam: A Preliminary Inquiry” Department of Anthropology Annual Student Symposium, University of Hawai’i, March.

Mary Conran

2007 “Returning the Gaze: Exploring the Possibility for a Dialogical Tourism”at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting Conference, (Chair of Session, New Spaces of Tourism and Tourism Thought), San Francisco, California, April.

2007 “(Re)Presentation and the Politics of Invisibility: Interrogating the Image in Picture Postcards from Northern Thailand” at the School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies Graduate Student Conference, Presenter, Honolulu, HI., March

2007 “Returning the Gaze: Exploring the Possibility for a Dialogical Tourism” at the
Indigenous Peoples, Tourism and the Natural: A Cultural Politics Perspective, International Conference, Invited Speaker, Providence University, Taichung, Taiwan, December

2006“Beyond Authenticity: Exploring Intimacy in the Touristic Encounter”  at the  Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting Conference Presenter, Chicago, IL., March

2006 “Beyond Authenticity: Exploring Intimacy in the Touristic Encounter” at the 4th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, HI, January

2005 “Beyond Authenticity: Exploring Intimacy in the Touristic Encounter”  American Anthropological Association Conference, Presenter, Washington D.C., December

2005 “Beyond Authenticity: Exploring Intimacy in the Touristic Encounter”  at the Border Tourism and Community Development Conference, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China, July

2005 “Beyond Authenticity: Exploring Intimacy in the Touristic Encounter”  at the Western States Folklore Society Meeting, Presenter, Eugene, OR., April

Tani Sebro Day

2008 "Burma: Reproductive Rights in a State of Violence." Presented at: Fifth Annual SFSU Human Rights Summit: Sexuality & Reproductive Rights. San Francisco State University

Shawn Fehrenbach

July 2009. "Ceramic Compositional Analysis in Cambodia." Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

April 2009. "Traditions of Earthenware Technology in Early Historic Angkor Borei, Cambodia." Anthropology Graduate Student Symposium, Honolulu, HI.

April 2009. "Ceramics from Angkor Borei: The Chemical Composition of Socially Informed Decision Making." Conservation Research in the Mekong Region Conference, Honolulu, HI.

July 2008. "Background and Preliminary Results for Compositional Analysis of Ceramics from Angkor Borei, Cambodia." University of Missouri Research Reactor, Columbia, MO.

March 2008. "Relating Archaeological Ceramics to Social Organization." UHM School of Pacific and Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference, Honolulu, HI.

March 2007. "Exploring Ceramic Variability at Angkor Borei." UHM School of Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Studies Graduate Student Conference, Honolulu, HI.

Patricia Fifita

2007 “Traditional Medicine at the Interface of Modernity: Negotiations of Globalization and Health in Tonga”, Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO) Meeting, Charlottesville, VA.

Suzanne Finney

October 2001 "The War in the Pacific: Archaeological Investigation into Civil War Activity in Micronesia." Presented at the 14th Annual Conference for the Society for Hawaiian Archaeology, October, Kahului, Maui.

July 2001 "Underwater Cultural Resource Potential in the Pacific." Presented at the 12th Biennial Internationa Symposium on Coastal and Ocean Management,: Coastal Zone, Cleveland, Ohio.

February 2001 "Pohnpei Underwater Archaeology 2000: Results from the field." Presented at the 13th Annual Symposium on the Maritime Archaeology and History of Hawaii and the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii.

January 2001 "Shipwrecks and Battlefields: Civil War Whalers in Micronesia." Presented at the 34th Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Society for Historical Archaeology, Long Beach, Californi

Satomi Fukutomi

November 2008. "Traveling Through Brands: Branding RÂMEN and Creating “Local” Identity." The 107th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting: San Francisco.

March 2007. "Reifying Râmen: Gender and Food in Online Communities." The 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies; Boston, MA.

November 2003. "Why do the Japanese purchase peace?" The 102nd American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

August 2003. "The Commodification of 'Japaneseness' in the Tea Ceremony." The 10th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies; Warsaw, Poland.

November 2002. "Pot-Au-Feu Japan: Foods and Weddings." The 101th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

Rachel Hoerman

Sessions Organized:

2008 Anthropology Graduate Student Association Roundtable "Anthropology, Ethics & War"

Hirofumi Katsuno

Session organized:

2008 "Technology, masculinity, and modernity in contemporary Japan," Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 19-23 (also chair, introduction, and paper presentation).

Paper Presentations:

2008 "Romanticizing technology: power and pleasure in robot-building in contemporary Japan," Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 19-23.

2007 "Materializing Dreams: Technology, Humanity and the Post-modern Tension in Contemporary Japanese Robotics," Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C., November 28-December 2.

2007 "Robot Dreams: Formation of Self and Masculine Identity in Japanese Techno- Culture," Japan Anthropology Workshop at University of Oslo, Norway, March 14-17.

2007 "Nationalizing Technology: Production and Consumption of Humanoid Robots in Contemporary Japan," Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Boston, MA., March 22-25.

2006 "Robotic Hearts: Production and Consumption of Personal Robots in Contemporary Japan," annual meeting of the Anthropology of Japan in Japan at Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo, October 28-29.

2005 "Consuming Japanese Superheroes in Hawai`i," annual meeting of Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology at Hokkaido University, Japan, May 22-23.

2004 "Marketing a Japanese Live-Action TV Program in Hawai'i," conference In Godzilla's Footsteps: Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage at University of Kansas, October 22-24.

2003 "Generation Kikaida’: Community Formation around a Japanese Superhero T.V. show in Hawai'i," Cultural Typhoon at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, June 28.

2003 "Kikaida is Our Hero!: Local Nostalgia for a Japanese-Live-Action T.V. Show in Hawai'i," Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, March 27-30.

2003 "Kikaida Phenomena: Consuming a Japanese Live-Action TV Show in Hawai'i," The East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference. Honolulu, HI, February 20.

2002 "Face-Off: On-Line Embodiment in Contemporary Japan". Presented at Media in Transition 2 conference at MIT, May 10, and at JAWS (Japan Anthropology Workshop) 2002 at Yale University, May 11. (with Christine Yano)

2000 "Localizing Pokemon: Comparing Japanese and English versions of the T.V. show," conference Nintentionality, or Pikachu's Global Adventure at The East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 20-21.

Kekuewa Kikiloi

Sessions Organized:

“The Ocean Within Us”: Customary Marine Management Practices in Oceania, In “Our Sea of Islands” Regional Forum for Oceania on Marine Managed Areas and World Heritage. Sponsored by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and UNESCO World Heritage Centre. East-West Center, Honolulu, January 29 – February 2, 2007 (Carlos Andrade, John Parks, Kevin Grant, Takiora Ingram work session co-organizers).

“Our Sea of Islands Regional Forum for Oceania on Marine Managed Areas and World Heritage.” Sponsored by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and UNESCO World Heritage Centre. East-West Center, Honolulu, January 29 – February 2, 2007 (Kevin Grant conference co-organizer)

Papers Presented:

2008 “Kamehameha Schools’ Land Legacy Resources Management: A Perpetual Hawaiian Mission” at a forum on “Maintaining and Recovering Eco-cultural Health: Challenges and Opportunities.” A Symposium on “Sustaining Cultural and Biological Diversity in a Rapidly Changing World: Lessons for Global Policy” co-organized by the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History IUCN- The World Conservation Union (Namaka Whitehead co-presenter).

2006 “E Ho‘i i ke Au a Kanaloa-hauna-wela (Returning to the cycles of Kanaloa-[in-the-depths-of-intensity]): Indigenous issues concerning ocean resource management in the Hawaiian Islands” at the Matauranga Taketake: Traditional Knowledge Conference, Te Papa o Tongarewa Museum, Wellington, New Zealand, June.

2005 “Tracing Our Beginnings to the Source: An Exploration into Kumulipō through the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands” at the World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education (WIPCE), Waikato University, Waikato, New Zealand, November.

2005 “Hale Mua: A Hawaiian Model for Men’s Cultural Education and Development” at the World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education (WIPCE), Waikato University, Waikato, New Zealand, November (Dr. Keawe Kaholokula and Dr. Kawika Tengan co-presenters).

2005 “Uncovering the Mysteries of Nihoa Island: Preliminary research in understanding the timing and settlement of a remote island in the northwest region of Hawai‘i” at the 18th Annual Society for Hawaiian Archaeology Conference, Radisson Kaua‘i Beach Resort, Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i, October.

2005 “Songs from the Hidden Islands of Kāne” at Ka Aha Hula O Hālauola: World Hula Conference, Maui Community College, Maui, Hawai‘i, July (Keoni Kuoha co-presenter).

2003 “Hawaiians in archaeology:  A microcosm of the Hawaiian graduate experience.” at the 1st Annual Native Hawaiian Graduate Student Conference, “Ka Li‘u o ka Pa‘akai,” University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Center for Hawaiian Studies, Honolulu, Hawai’i, August. (Dr. Kēhau Abad, Kathy Kawelu, Lahele Perry, and Erica Radewagen co-presenters).

2003 “Ua Mau ke ‘Ea o ka ‘Āina i ka Pono: Kaniakapūpū as a Living Legacy” at the 16th Annual Society for Hawaiian Archaeology Conference, Windward Community College, Honolulu, Hawai‘i October (Dr. Kekuni Blaisdell, Gerard Jervis, Mel Kalāhiki co-presenters).

2003 “A New Synthesis in Oceanic Domestication: The Symbiotic Development of Loko i‘a aquaculture in pre-contact Oceania” at the 16th Annual Society for Hawaiian Archaeology Conference, Windward Community College, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i, October.

2002 “The Evolution of Complex Polities in Pre-contact O‘ahu” at the 15th Annual Society for Hawaiian Archaeology Conference, Kaua‘i Community College, Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i, October.

1999 “Archaeology and Anthropology in Hawai‘i: A Post-Colonial Critique” at the World Indigenous Peoples' Conference on Education (WIPCE), University of Hawai‘i at Hilo Campus, Hilo, Hawai‘i, August (Kawika Tengan co-presenter).

Yoon Young Kim

Nov. 2006 “School Life and Cultural Conflict of North Korean Refugee Children in South Korea” in 2006 at 105TH Annual meeting, American Anthropological Association at San Jose, the U.S. (Revised version from earlier paper)

Feb. 2006 “Cultural Adaptation and Conflict: North Korean Refugee Adolescents in South Korea” At East West Center International student conference on Feb.16-17 in 2006, at Honolulu in Hawaii

Hyeon Ju Lee

2009 Panel Presentation “Who Started the War and When Did It End? Remembering and Forgetting the Korean War in the Republic of Korea. Society for East Asian Anthropology Conference. Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.

2009 Paper presentation “May I Call You North Korean? Contested and Constructed Identity of North Korean Refugees in South Korea” The 20th School for Pacific and Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference. University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI

2009 Paper presentation “May I Call You North Korean? Contested and Constructed Identity of North Korean Refugees in South Korea” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL.

2008 Invited colloquia "May I Call You North Korean?" The Academy of Korean Studies Graduate Student Colloquium Series (in Korean)

2008 Panel Discussant "Female Marriage Migrants Labor and Strategies" in Multicultural Circumstances and Identity Changes, International Junior Academic Conference on Korean Studies, Academy of Korean Studies, South Korea

2007 paper presentation "Korean War-Remembering the Forgotten War: Korea's identity and the war commemoration reflected in newspaper articles," The 3rd Global Consortium for the Centers for Korean Studies Graduate Students Workshop. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

2006 Presentation "North Korean Refugees: Long Lost Family or Immigrants?" The 4th East West Center International Graduate Student Conference. Honolulu, HI.

2005 Presentation "Being Korean and Being Christian through Sharing Food," The 104th Annual Meeting of American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C.

2005 Presentation "Being Korean and Being Christian through Sharing Food: Identity Making in the Korean Baptist Church of Baton Rouge," The School of Hawai'ian, Asian and Pacific Studies 16th Annual Graduate Student Conference, Honolulu, HI.

Regina Woodrom Luna

Conference Sessions and Symposia Organized:

2001-2008 The Marine Turtle: the Magical Wonderful Sea Turtle. Training seminar conducted for employees of the O'ahu Sea Turtle Stranding and Salvaging Group of the US NOAA Fisheries, NMFS Marine Turtle Research Program. Held six times over the seven year period.

2008 Co-organizer with Jeffery Kuwabara. 19th Annual Symposium on the Maritime Archaeology and History of Hawai'i and the Pacific. February 16-18th, 2008. University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.

2008 Session Chair: Maritime History of Hawai'i and the Pacific. 19th Annual Symposium on the Maritime Archaeology and History of Hawai'i and the Pacific. February 16-18th, 2008.  University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.

Conference Presentations:

2008 Sea Turtle Reverence and Natural Resource Availability: A test of Johannes’ theory of limited resources as a prerequisite for the development of traditional food prohibitions in the Pacific. 19th Annual Symposium on Maritime Archaeology and History of Hawai'i and the Pacific, February 16-18, 2008. Honolulu, Hawai'i.

2008 Sea Turtles: 3000 Years of Reverence and Cultural Significance in the Pacific. 28th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. January 19-26, 2008. Loreto, Baja California Sur, Mexico.

2007 Sea Turtle Consumption and Human Health.  The Pacific Coast College Health Association Lōkahi Conference hosted by the University of Hawai'i System and BYU University, November 11-14th 2007.

2007 The Sea Turtle Wars: culture, war and sea turtles in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. 18th Annual Symposium on Maritime Archaeology and History of Hawai'i and the Pacific, February 19-21, 2007. Honolulu, Hawai'i.

2004 A Sea Turtle Story: Who Cares, Why, and So What? -- A Case Study in Environmental Anthropology and Spiritual Ecology. Seventh Annual Graduate Research Conference, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i, Spring 04.

2000 Are environmental factors responsible for the decline in Chelonia mydas agassizii (black turtle) populations of Bahia Magdalena, Mexico? (with J.L. Cudney). Animal Ecology and Behavior 109th Annual Meeting The Ohio Academy of Science Hosted by Ohio Northern University Ada, Ohio March 31; April 1-2, 2000.

1999 Chelonia mydas agassizii (the black turtle): Are environmental factors responsible for the decline of the black turtle population in Bahia Magdalena, Baja California Sur, Mexico? (with J.L. Cudney). Sixth Annual Student Research Conference, West Texas A&M University, Fall 99.

1999 Rio Pacuare:  An analysis of the future of Costa Rica’s wildest river. Sixth Annual Student Research Conference, West Texas A&M University, Fall 99.

Alex E. Morrison

Sessions Organized:

The Dark Ages in Samoan Prehistory. The Pre-history of West Polynesia and Fiji Conference, Dec. 2006, Tutuila American Samoa. (Co-organizer D.J. Addison).

Subsistence practices. The Pre-history of West Polynesia and Fiji Conference, Dec. 2006, Tutuila, American Samoa. (Co-organizers, J.M. Davidson, J. Field).

Landscape archaeology in Oceania: recent methodological advances (Poster Session) Society for American Archaeology Meeting April 2009, Atlanta, GA, USA. (Co-organizers, P. Johnson, M. Mulrooney).

Paper Presentations

2003. Society for Hawaiian Archaeology Conference. Oct. 2003. "Measuring Temporal Trends in Mollusk Assemblages: An example from Nu`alolo Kai, Kaua`i." Oahu, HI.

2004. Maritime Archaeology and the History of Hawaii and the Pacific Islands Conference. December 2004. "Archaeology as Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Customary Marine Tenure Practices in Pacific Prehistory." Oahu, HI.

2005. The Lapita Conference, August 2005. "An Analysis of Shellfish Remains from the Natia Beach Site, Nacula Island; Fiji." Tonga.

2006. Indo-Pacific Prehistory Conference (IPPA), March, 2006. "Shellfish Remains from the Fatumafuti Site, Tutuila, American Samoa."  Manila, Philippines.   

2006. Indo-Pacific Prehistory Conference (IPPA), March, 2006. "Dynamic Landscapes and Marine Resource Use in Prehistoric Samoa." Manila, Philippines.

2006. Society for American Archaeology (SAA) meeting, April 2006. "From the Coast-Inland: Results of the 2005 University of Hawaii Terevaka Archaeological Survey." San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2007. Maritime Archaeology and the History of Hawaii and the Pacific Islands Conference. February 2007. A GIS Based Model for Assessing Lapita Aged Settlement, Tutuila Island, American Samoa. With Timothy Rieth and David J. Addison.

2007. Society for American Archaeology (SAA) meeting, April. Unifying Archaeology with Broader Theoretical Themes in Island Archaeology: Case Studies from Fiji and Samoa." Austin, Texas.

2007. Easter Island and the Pacific Conference, Gotland Norway. August 2007. A GIS based model for locating Lapita settlements in American Samoa: Integrating prehistoric landscape change with radiocarbon chronology. With Timothy Rieth and David J. Addison.

Dick Page

2008. "More than Virtual: Code and Imagined Space." University of Hawai‘i - Mānoa Department of Anthroplogy Graduate Student Symposium. December.

Publications

Single Author Publications

Stephen Acabado

2006 "Water is sacred; water is power; water is life: Water in Khmer civilization," In Baray: Water in Khmer Arts and Life, edited by V. Manalo. Manila: Metropolitan Museum of Manila.

2003 "Land Use and Agricultural Intensification: A Gis-Based Analysis of the Ifugad Landscape, Northern Philippines."

Margaret B. Bodemer

2008. "Some Thoughts on the VME in the Context of 'Museum Anthropology'" In Faces, Voices, and Lives: My Experiences in Building a Museum for Communities, Nguyen Van Huy and Margaret B. Bodemer, eds. Hanoi: The Gioi publishers and Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, pp. xxx-xxx.

2005. " Ram Thang Bay: Offerings to Wandering Spirits in Contemporary Vietnam," Asian Anthropology, v. 4, pp. 115-136, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Tan Chee-Beng and Gordon Mathews, eds.

Mickaelle-Hinanui Cauchois

2002 Dryland Horticulture in Maupiti: An Ethnoarchaeological Study. Asian Perspectives 41(2):269-283.

Mary Conran

2006 BeyondAuthenticity: Exploring Intimacy in the Touristic Encounter. Tourism Geographies, 8 (3), pp. 274-285.

Patricia Fifita

2007 “Valuing Traditional Knowledge: An Ethnobotanical Review of Herbal Medicine in Tonga,” Pacific Rim Studies Journal, 1:69-83.

Satomi Fukutomi

Forthcoming "Râmen Connoisseurs: Class, Gender and the Internet." In The Past and Present of Japanese Foodways, Edited by Stephanie Assmann and Eric C. Rath.

2005. "Interview with Takie Lebra for Society for East Asian Anthropology." Carolyn S. Steven and Christine R. Yano, eds. Anthropology News 46 (8): 61.

Hirofumi Katsuno

Forthcoming "Branding Humanoid Japan" In Global Japan, edited by Dolores Martinez and Merry White.

Forthcoming "Becoming Generation Kikaida: Formation of generational identity in the revival of a Japanese live-action TV program in Hawai'i." In Japanese Television, edited by Yoshimoto, Mitsuhiro. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

2006 "Kikaida for Life: Cult Fandom in a Japanese Live-action TV show in Hawai'i". In In Godzilla's footsteps: Japanese pop culture icons on the global stage, edited by W. Tsutsui and M. Ito. New York: Palgrave.

Kekuewa Kikiloi

2005 Hō‘oiwi: Indigenizing Methodologies (poem). In Huliau (Time of Change). ‘Ōiwi: A Native Hawaiian Journal, Volume 3. Kuleana ‘Ōiwi Press, Honolulu.

2005 Desecration: Tha Bone of My Contention (poem). In Huliau (Time of Change), ‘Ōiwi: A Native Hawaiian Journal, Volume 3. Kuleana ‘Ōiwi Press, Honolulu.

2003 A New Synthesis in Oceanic Domestication: The Symbiotic Development of Loko i’a Aquaculture in Pre-Contact Oceania. In Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) Traditional Marine Resource Management and Knowledge Bulletin, Issue # 15, July. http://www.spc.int/coastfish/News/Trad/15/Trad15.pdf

2002 An ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i Speaking Nation (poem). In Kūnihi ka Mauna (steep stands the mountain), ‘Ōiwi: A Native Hawaiian Journal, Volume 2. Kuleana ‘Ōiwi Press, Honolulu.

2002 ‘O Haukani, He Kumu Hina ‘Ole; Ke Ola Nei i ka Makani (short story). In Kūnihi ka Mauna (steep stands the mountain), ‘Ōiwi: A Native Hawaiian Journal, Volume 2. Kuleana ‘Ōiwi Press, Honolulu.

Yoon Young Kim

2005. “School life and adaptation strategy.” In Byung-ho Chung(eds.). Welcome to Korea. (pp.218-242). Hanyang University press. (in Korean)

Regina Woodrom Luna

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles:

2003 The Merging of Archaeological Evidence and Marine Turtle Ecology: A case study approach to the importance of including archaeological data in marine science. SPC Traditional Marine Resource Management and Knowledge Information Bulletin 15: 26-30. http://www.spc.int/coastfish/News/Trad/15/Trad15.pdf

2003 Traditional Food Prohibitions (tapu) regarding Marine Turtle among Pacific Islanders. SPC Traditional Marine Resource Management and Knowledge Information Bulletin 15: 31-32. http://www.spc.int/coastfish/News/Trad/15/Trad15.pdf

2001 What is Public Anthropology? A case study example. Journal of Public Anthropology: The Graduate Journal #2001b. http://www.publicanthropology.org/Journals/Grad-J/(2)Hawaii/T-of-C.htm.  

Reports Not Intended for Publication:

2008 Sea Turtle Reverence in Pacific Islands under US Jurisdiction: Hawai'i, Territories and Freely Associated States. Prepared for US NOAA Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service, Pacific Islands Regional Office. Submitted to Irene Kinan Kelly, Sea Turtle Recovery Coordinator, 2008 September. 

2008 Sea Turtles of the RMI: Culture, Tradition and Ecology. Prepared for the Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority (MIMRA), Republic of the Marshall Islands. Submitted to Emma Kabua, MIMRA Sea Turtle Coordinator, 2008 March.

2003 Marine Turtle Stranding and Salvaging Group: marine turtle life history, threats to their survival, and three year report. Completed in Partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Graduate Ocean Science/Ocean Policy Certificate Program, University of Hawai'i Mānoa. Report to US NOAA Fisheries National Marine Fisheries Service. January 1, 2000 - December 31, 2002. Submitted to George Balazs, Leader NMFS Marine Turtle Research Program, 2003 May 11.

Alex E. Morrison

2006. A GIS Based Model for the Prediction of Archaeological Sites: Manu`a Islands, American Samoa. Journal of Samoan Studies.(2)

Tani H. Sebro

2007-2008 "Burma: Reproductive Rights in a State of Violence." San Francisco State University Treganza Museum Anthropology Papers: Human Rights in Global Light, 2007-2008: 99-103.

Multiple Authors (students' names italicized)

Peer Reviewed Articles:

Hirofumi Katsuno and Christine R. Yano

2007 "Kaomoji and Expressivity in a Japanese Housewives' Chartoom." In The Multilingual Internet: Language, Culture, and Communication in Instant Messaging, Email and Chat, edited by Danet, Brenda and Herring, Susan. New York: Cambridge University Press.

2002 "Face to Face: On-Line Subjectivity in Contemporary Japan." Asian Studies Review 26: 205-232.

Hirofumi Katsuno and Jeffrey Maret

2004 "Localizing the Pokémon TV series for the American Market." In Pikachu's Global Adventure: Rise and Fall of Pokémon, edited by Joseph Tobin, 80-107. Durham: Duke University Press.

Reed, Gay G. & Kim, Yoon Young

2007. "Schooling in North Korea." In Gerard A. Postiglione and Jason Tan(eds.). Going to School in East Asia. (pp.258-274) London: Greenwood Press.

Regina Woodrom Luna, Walsh Kroeker J., Young Leslie H. and Finney S.

2007 The Sea Turtle Wars: culture, war and sea turtles in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. SPC Traditional Marine Resource Management and Knowledge Information Bulletin 21: 3-29.
http://www.spc.int/Coastfish/News/Trad/21/Trad21.pdf

Alex E. Morrison and David J. Addison

2008. Assessing the Role of Climate Change and Human Predation on Marine Resources at the Fatu-ma-Futi Site, Tutuila Island, American Samoa: An Agent Based Model. Archaeology in Oceania (43) 22-34.

Alex E. Morrison and E.E. Cochrane

Investigating Landscape Change and Shellfish Deposition at the Natia Beach Site, Nacula Island, Fiji. Journal of Archaeological Science (35):2387-2399.

Alex E. Morrison and Terry Hunt

2007. Human Impacts to Near-shore Resources: A Case Study from Nu`alolo Kai, Kauai. Pacific Science (63) 25-35.

Tim Rieth, Alex E. Morrison, and David J. Addison

The Temporal and Spatial Patterning of the Initial Settlement of Samoa. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 3(2).

Reports Not Intended for Publication:

Ferguson, J., Shawn Fehrenbach, and M. Glascock.

2008. Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis of Ceramics from Wits Cah Ak’al in the Eastern Maya Lowlands. Prepared for Satoru Murata, Boston University Department of Anthropology. On file at the Archaeometry Laboratory, U. of Missouri Research Reactor.

Lankford S., Inui Y., Whittle A., Tyronne D., Regina Woodrom Luna

2005 Sustainability of Coastal/Marine Recreation: Modeling Social Carrying Capacity for Hanauma Bay, Hawai'i. March 2005. Final Report for University of Hawai'i Sea Grant College Program, SOEST.

 

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