Associated Faculty

Cooperating Graduate Faculty

Christine Beaule (Languages and Literatures of Europe and the Americas)
Andean/Latin American archaeology, household organization, origins of complexity, Colonialism <beaule@hawaii.edu>

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

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

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

Cathryn Clayton (Asian Studies)
Cultural anthropology; sovereignty and colonialism; nationalisms and transnationalisms; history, memory and place-making; China and East Asia. <cclayton@hawaii.edu>

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

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

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

Michael Hamnett (Research Corporation of the University of Hawai'i) 
Applied policy research, economic development, research management; Oceania <hamnett@hawaii.edu> 

Roderick Labrador (Ethnic Studies)
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 (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 (University of Hawai'i, Hilo)
archaeology, culture contact, lithic analysis, ethnohistory; Polynesia, North Pacific, North America <millsp@hawaii.edu>

Warren Nishimoto (Center for Oral History)
Oral history, Ethnographic interviewing, Hawai`i
<wnishimo@hawaii.edu>

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

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

Affiliate Graduate Faculty

Melinda S. Allen (University 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 <ms.allen@auckland.ac.nz>

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

J. Stephen Athens (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 (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 (Bristol University, UK)
Bioarchaeology, popular culture change, Neolithic transition, isotope analysis, evolutionary theory; mainland Southeast Asia, central Europe, contemporary Western society <r.a.bentley@bristol.ac.uk>

Keith Brown (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>

Ethan Cochrane (University of Auckland, NZ)
Evolutionary theory, cultural transmission, archaeological science, Oceania, Fiji, Ceramics <e.cochrane@auckland.ac.nz>

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

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

Michele T. Douglas
Physical anth, skeletal biology, bioarchaeology, paleopathology;Oceania, Southeast Asia; <toomaydoug@charter.net>

Thomas S. Dye (T.S. Dye & Colleagues, Archaeologists, Inc.)
Archaeology; Hawaii & the Pacific <tsd@tsdye.com>

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

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

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

Jennifer Kahn (Bishop Museum)
Archaeology, lithic technology, household archaeology, monumental architecture and landscapes; Hawai‘i, French Polynesia, and the Pacific. <jennifer.kahn@bishopmuseum.org>

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

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

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

Jay Silverstein (The Pennsylvania State University)
Archaeology; militarism; the evolution, rise and fall of complex societies; hydraulic constructions; GIS; survey; modern military archaeology in Asia and Europe; urban archaeology; Mesoamerica; and Greco-Roman Egypt <drjsilverstein@gmail.com>

Matt Tomlinson (Australian National University)
Cultural and linguistic anthropology, religion and ritual, discourse analysis, Christianity, Fiji, Oceania <matt.tomlinson@anu.edu.au>

Eric Wittersheim (EHESS, Paris)
Political and urban anthropology, visual anthropology and documentary filmmaking, nationhood and state-building, Vanuatu, Melanesia, Oceania <ericwittersheim@hotmail.fr>

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

Douglas Yen (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
Medical and feminist anthropology, culture and health, medicine and modernity, health professionals; Tonga, Oceania <hyleslie@hawaii.edu>

Adjunct Faculty

Jonathan D. Baker (Lecturer)
Medical and nutritional anthropology, anthropology of food, ethnopharmacology, science and technology studies; Oceania. <bakerjon@hawaii.edu>

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

Lisa X. Gollin (Cultural Surveys Hawaii)
Medical anthropology, ethnobotany and ethnobiology, local ecological knowledge, cultural resource management, oral histories; Indonesia and Hawaii. <lxgollin@hawaii.edu>

Jennie JH Jin, (Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command – Central Identification Lab (JPAC-CIL))
Zooarchaeology, vertebrate taphonomy, human skeletal biology, forensic anthropology, paleoanthropology; China, Korea <jennie.jin@hotmail.com>

Guido Carlo Pigliasco (Department of Languages and Literatures of Europe and the Americas)
Cultural and legal anthropology, visual anthropology, ritual and performance, commodification and tourism; Oceania, Fiji <guido@hawaii.edu>

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

Paul J. Ross, (APRN, ANP, MA, MSN,OCN, Hawaii Medical Center)
Quantitative methods, nutritional and medical anthropology, human ecology, medical systems, field methods in cultural anthropology; West Africa <pross@hawaiimedcen.com>

page last updated February 19, 2013