Associated Faculty

Cooperating Graduate Faculty

Daniel Brown, (PhD, U of Hawaii, Hilo) 
Physical anthropology, medical anthropology; Polynesia <dbrown@hawaii.edu> 

Rebecca Cann (PhD, Genetics and Molecular Biology) 
Physical anthropology, anthropological genetics, human populations <rcann@hawaii.edu> 

William Chapman (PhD, American Studies) 
Historic preservation, historical archaeology, history of anthropology <wchapman@hawaii.edu> 

Emanuel Drechsel (PhD, Liberal Studies) 
Historical sociolinguistics, ethnohistory, North American Indians; North America <drechsel@hawaii.edu> 

Suzanne Falgout (PhD, University of Hawai'i - West O'ahu ) 
Cultural and historical anthropology; Micronesia <falgout@hawaii.edu> 

Michael Forman (PhD, Linguistics Dept.) 
Linguistic anthropology; Philippines <forman@hawaii.edu>  

Michael Hamnett (PhD, RCUH) 
Applied policy research, economic development, research management; Oceania <hamnett@hawaii.edu> 

Pensri Ho (PhD, Ethnic Studies )
Transnational migration, globalization, asian Americans, ethnographic film; US <pensri@hawaii.edu>

Roderick Labrador (PhD, Director, GEAR UP, Student Affairs)
Cultural anthropology, identity, immigration political economy, globalization and diaspora; Hawai'i/Pacific, Philippines, Filipina/American and Asia Pacific America <labrador@hawaii.edu>

Gregory G Maskarinec (PhD, Family Medicine & Community Health)
Anthropology of language (Nepalese oral texts), western biomedical clinical medicine, mededucation and indigenous medical systems of Soth Asia; religions (belief systems, ritual and performance); <gregorym@hawaii.edu>

Peter R. Mills (PhD, University of Hawai'i, Hilo)
archaeology, culture contact, lithic analysis, ethnohistory; Polynesia, North Pacific, North America <millsp@hawaii.edu>

Jonathan Y. Okamura (PhD, Ethnic Studies) 
Ethnicity and ethnic relations, Asian American studies, Philippines, Hawai'i <okamuraj@hawaii.edu> 

Miriam Sharma (PhD, Ctr for South Asian Studies) 
Agrarian class formation and gender relations, political and economic development, methodology; South Asia <csas@hawaii.edu> 

Affiliate Graduate Faculty

Melinda S. Allen ( PhD, U of Auckland)
Prehistory of Oceania, evolutionary, ecological, and biogeographical theory, zooarchaeology, human paleoecology, subsistence change, prehistoric environments, exchange and interaction, Polynesian fishing technologies; Oceania, Polynesia <msallen@auckland.ac.nz>

S. Jane Allen (PhD, Intl Arch Res Inst)
Soils and environmental archaeology, Contact-era archaeology; Southeast Asia, Pacific Islands; <jallen@iarii.org>

J. Stephen Athens (PhD, Intl Arch Res Inst) 
Evolutionary and agricultural ecology, origin of agriculture, development of complex societies, tropical paleoenvironment; Hawaii CRM issues; Oceania; Arch of Micronesia, Hawaii <jsathens@iarii.org> 

Nicholas Barker (PhD, East-West Ctr Education Prog)
Cultural anthropology, religious self-mortification, culture concept, theory of ritual, self-sacrifice and the body; Philippines, Asia <barkern@eastwestcenter.org> 

R. Alexander Bentley, (PhD, Durham University, UK)
Bioarchaeology, popular culture change, Neolithic transition, isotope analysis, evolutionary theory; mainland Southeast Asia, central Europe, contemporary Western society <r.a.bentley@durham.ac.uk>

Robert Borofsky (PhD, Hawaii Pacific U) 
Public anthropology, the anthropology of anthropology, Pacific history; Oceania <borofsky@hpu.edu>

Keith Brown (PhD, University of Pittsburgh)
Cultural anthropology; family histories; farmer production decision; religious syncretism; ethnicity and the Emperor; globalization and food, family and car culture; Japan <LKB@pitt.edu>

C. Kehaunani Cachola-Abad (PhD, Kamehameha Schools)
Archaeology, oral traditions, historic preservation, evolution; Hawaii and Polynesia <keabad@ksbe.edu>

Sara Collins (PhD, Pacific Consulting Services, Inc.)
Archaeology, Human & Faunal Osteology, Historic Preservation Compliance & Practice; Hawai`i & the Pacific <scollins@lava.net>

Michele T. Douglas (PhD ) 
Physical anth, skeletal biology, bioarchaeology, paleopathology;Oceania, Southeast Asia; <toomaydoug@cs.com> 

Jefferson M. Fox (PhD, East-West Center) 
Land use, forest resources and management, GIS and spatial information technology; South Asia, Southeast Asia <foxj@eastwestcenter.org> 

Thomas Holland (PhD, US Army JPAC) 
Physical and forensic anthropology, skeletal biology; US Midwest, S.W. Asia 

Tianlong Jiao (PhD, Bishop Museum) 
Transition from hunting-gathering to farming, maritime adaptation, complex society, early state formation, China, southeast Asia <tjiao@bishopmuseum.org>

Thegn Ladefoged (PhD, University of Auckland)
Archaeology, evolution, landscape, social complexity, agricultural development, remote sensing, GIS; Polynesia <t.ladefoged@auckland.ac.nz>

Lamont Lindstrom (PhD, University of California at Berkeley)
Cultural anthropology, sociolinguistics, ethnohistory, social theory; Oceania, Vanuatu <lamont-lindstrom@utulsa.edu>

Gerald Marten (PhD, Adjunct Senior Fellow, East-West Center)
Population dynamics, ecosystem ecology, animal behavior, statistics, mathematical modeling, population genetics <marteng@eastwestcenter.org>

John A. Peterson (PhD, Micronesian Area Research Center)
Archaeology, historical archaeology; Hawaii-Pacific, Philippines, American Southwest <johnap@hawaii.edu>

Matt Tomlinson (PhD, Monash University)
Cultural and linguistic anthropology, religion and ritual, discourse analysis, Christianity, Fiji, Oceania <matt.tomlinson@arts.monash.edu.au>

David Y.H. Wu (PhD)
Cultural anthropology, ethnicity, anthropology of food; China and Chinese diaspora <wuyenhe@aol.com>

Douglas Yen (DSc, Professor Emeritus, Australian National University)
Origins of Pacific agriculture, plant domestication, archaeobotany, application of biological techniques to problems of cultivated plant dispersal; Pacific Regions <dougyen@yahoo.com>

Heather Young Leslie, (PhD)
Medical and feminist anthropology, culture and health, medicine and modernity, health professionals; Tonga, Oceania <hyleslie@hawaii.edu>

Adjunct Faculty

Christine Beaule (PhD, Lecturer) Arch, household archaeology, early complex societies; Latin America (Andes), mortuary studies, research methods and science writing; Bolivia <beaule@hawaii.edu>

Nancy Cooper (PhD, Lecturer)
Socio-cultural anthropology, performance, gender, expressive culture, ritual and religion; Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Java, Singapore <ncooper@hawaii.edu>

Nancy Kleiber (PhD, Lecturer)
Women's health care, feminist anthropologies; Pacific Islands <nankleiber@hawaii.rr.com>

Jan Rensel, (PhD, Center for Pacific Islands Studies)
Socioeconomic history, housing change, migrant communities; Polynesia
<rensel@hawaii.edu> 

Paul J. Ross, (MA, St. Francis Hospital) 
Quantitative methods, nutritional and medical anthropology, human ecology, medical systems, field methods in cultural anthropology; West Africa <paul@fhs-hi.org>

Jaida Samudra (PhD, Lecturer)
Cultural anthropology, identity, ethnic-nationalisms, socialities, the body in kinesthetic cultures, experiential ethnography, history of social theory, Chinese diaspora, Southeast Asia, Indonesia <jaida@hawaii.edu> 

page last updated October 19, 2009