Department Faculty

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* Indicates Graduate Faculty

*Andrew Arno, PhD (Undergraduate Advisor)
Legal anthropology, ethnography of communication, kinship and social organization; Pacific <aarno@hawaii.edu> <anthadv@hawaii.edu>

*James M. Bayman, PhD
Archaeology, craft economies; Oceania, North America < jbayman@hawaii.edu>

*Jack Bilmes, PhD (Graduate Chair)
Linguistic anthropology, social interaction, discourse; Thailand <bilmes@hawaii.edu> <gradchr@hawaii.edu>

*C. Fred Blake, PhD
Social theory, ideology, folkloristics, political economy, complex social formations; China <fblake@hawaii.edu>

*Alex Golub, PhD
Cultural anthropology; 'kinship' and identity; governance, indigenous land tenure, mining and natural resources, common and intellectual property, semiotic technologies; Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, massively multiplayer online video games <golub@hawaii.edu>

*Terry L. Hunt, PhD
Archaeology, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, evolutionary theory, archaeometry/ceramics; Oceania <thunt@hawaii.edu>

*Christopher J. Norton, PhD
Biological anthropology, paleoanthropology, vertebrate taphonomy, Out of Africa I, modern human origins; China, Korea, Japan <cnorton@hawaii.edu>

*Christian E. Peterson, PhD
Archaeology, comparative study, early complex societies, regional settlement patterns, household archaeology, quantitative methods; China <cepeter@hawaii.edu>

*Michael Pietrusewsky, PhD
Physical anthropology, skeletal biology, forensic anthropology; Oceania, Pacific Islands, Southeast and East Asia, Australia < mikep@hawaii.edu>

*Barry V. Rolett, PhD
Archaeology; Pacific Islands, Southeast China <rolett@hawaii.edu>

*Eirik J. Saethre, PhD
Medical anthropology, indigenous health, HIV/AIDS, biomedical interventions; Aboriginal Australia, South Africa <saethre@hawaii.edu>

Ann Sakaguchi, PhD
Medical anthropology, public health, medical malpractice, globalization and its impact on emerging and re-emerging diseases, health disparities, health care disparities, Japanese literature and history <annsakag@hawaii.edu>

*Leslie E. Sponsel, PhD
Ecology (cultural, historical, political, spiritual, Buddhist); sacred places and biodiversity; peace, human rights, ethics; Southeast Asia (Thailand), Amazon <sponsel@hawaii.edu>

*Miriam T. Stark, PhD
Archaeology, ecology, early village economics, ceramics, ethnoarchaeology; Southeast Asia <miriams@hawaii.edu>

*Ty P. Kawika Tengan, PhD
Cultural anthropology, indigenous theory and methodology, colonialism, nationalism, identity, gender, cultural politics; Pacific, Hawai`i <ttengan@hawaii.edu>

*Geoffrey M. White, PhD (Chair)
cultural anthropology, cultural studies, history and memory, self and emotion, ethnographic methods, Pacific Islands, America <white@hawaii.edu> <anthchr@hawaii.edu>

*Christine R. Yano, PhD
Cultural anthropology, popular culture, ethnomusicology, cultural nationalism, emotions; Japan, Japanese-Americans <cryano@hawaii.edu>

page last updated July 24, 2009