Faculty Honors and Awards

James Bayman

2001-2003 National Science Foundation. Project Title: Power and Economy at the Marana Mound: Structure of an Early Classic Center Near Tucson, Arizona. (Co-Principal Investigator with Paul Fish and Suzanne Fish, University of Arizona).

1998 Wenner-Gren Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship (Richard Carley Hunt Memorial)

Nina Etkin

2006: Scientific Committee, International Congress of Ethnobotany, San Carlos de Barilochie, Patagonia, Argentina (will convene in 2009).

2006: Vice Chair of Academic Committee, International Congress of Ethnopharmacology, Nanning, Guangxi Province, China.

2004-present: Honorary Board Member of the International Society of Ethnopharmacology, as a scholar of highest international stature.

2004-2005: Scientific Advisory Board, International Congress of Ethnobotany (ICEB), Istanbul.

2004: Scientific Committee, joint meeting of the International Society for Ethnopharmacology, the International Society for Ethnobiology, and the Society for Economic Botany. Kent, England.

2001 University of Hawai'i Regents' Medal for Excellence in Research

Editorial Positions and Awards

President, International Society for Ethnopharmacology

Fellow, The Linnean Society

Editor-in-Chief of the journal Reviews in Anthropology

Editorial Board Member: American Anthropologist, Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Journal of Ethnobiology, SOMA: Interactions Therapeutiques et Anthropologie Medicale, Anthropology and Medicine, Reviews in Anthropology, Viennese Ethnomedicine Newsletter, Pharmaceutical Biology, Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine , Ethnobotany Research and Applications, International Journal of Tropical Medicinal Plants.

Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Social Sciences, University of Hawaii

Recent Invited Keynote Addresses

2003: Etkin, N.L. Ethnography of Foraging, Phytofoods, and Fermentation. International Conference on the Anthropology of Food. International Commission for the Anthropology of Food (ICAF). International Union of Ethnological and Anthropological Sciences (IUEAS). Poysdorf, Austria : 4-7 December.

2003: Benefit-Sharing (BS?): Hype or Hope? Invited Plenary Address. International Conference on Medicinal Plants: Access, Use and Benefit Sharing in the Light of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Oslo, Norway. 3-5 April.

2003: Etkin, N.L. Ethnopharmacology and Biodiversity. Invited Plenary Address. Joint Conference of the International Society for Ethnopharmacology and the South African Association of Botanists. University of Pretoria. Pretoria, South Africa. 7-11 January.

2002: Etkin, N.L. The Role of Nutriceuticals in Health Care. Invited Plenary Address. Wolrd Ayurveda Congress. Kochi-Kerala, India. 1-4 November.

2002: Etkin, N.L. Eco-Health Series: The Cultural Ecology of Clinical Encounters. Department of Medicine Grand Rounds, Queen’s Hospital/University of Hawai'i. Honolulu, Hawai'i.

2002: Etkin, N.L. Ethnopharmacology: Exploring the Co-Evolution of People, Plants, Herbivores, and Their Respective Pathogens. Invited Plenary Address. Nutrition Society Conference: The Food Chain – Plants, Animals, Man. Leeds, England. 2-5 July.

2002: Etkin, N.L. Creating Links between Bioscience and Traditional Empirical Knowledge. Invited Plenary Address. World Congress of Pharmacology. San Francisco, California. 7-12 July.

2002: Etkin, N.L. CAM Research in Honolulu: beyond Catalogues of “How Many?” and “Who Uses What?” Invited Plenary Address. “Conference on the Future of CAM Research and Education in Hawai'i. Honolulu, Hawai'i. 25-26 June.

2002: Etkin, N.L. Contributions of Traditional Knowledge and Practices to the Conservation of Biodiversity. Invited Plenary Address. International Conference on Science and Technology in Biodiversity Conservation and Utilization. Beijing, China. 22-24 May .

2002: Etkin, N.L. and P.J. Ross. Polypharmacy and the Elderly Cancer Patient: Rethinking “Noncompliance.” Invited Magisterial (Plenary) Address. International Conference on Ethnogerontology & Ethnogeriatrics: Living and Healing Old Age in the World. Genoa, Italy. 11-16 March.

2001: Etkin, N.L. The Future of Ethnobotany: Moving Fast, Going Where? Invited Plenary Address. International Congress of Ethnobotany: Ethnobotany in the Third Millennium: Expectations and Unresolved Issues. Naples, Italy. 22-30 September.

2001: Etkin, N.L. Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM): “Folk Medicine” of the Early 21st Century in the West. Invited Senior Magisterial Dissertation (Plenary Address). International Symposium on Ethnobotany, Ethnomedicine, and Pharmacology. Antigua, Guatemala. 14-18 September.

2001: Etkin, N.L. Nutraceuticals, Cosmeceuticals, and Antiaging Agents in US Popular Culture. Invited Plenary Address. International Symposium on Lycium and Antiaging Agents. Yinchuan City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China. 6-9 August.

2000: Etkin, N.L. Perspectives in Ethnopharmacology: Forging a Closer Link between Bioscience and Traditional Empirical Knowledge. Invited Keynote Address. Joint meeting of the International Society for Ethnopharmacology and the European Society for Medicinal Plant Research. Zurich, Switzerland. 3-7 September.

Michael Graves

Extramural Grants Since 2002

2006 The Ecological Evolutionary Dynamics of Hawaiian Ritual and Social Complexity, A.D. 1400-1800 (with T. N Ladefoged). Grant funded by the Program on Competitive Dynamics and Cultural Evolution of Religions and God Concepts, Templeton Advanced Research Program, Philadelphia, PA. ($50,000)

2006 Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Development of Irrigated Agriculture in Wailau Valley, Moloka‘i, Hawai‘i (with Windy McElroy). Proposal submitted to the National Sciences Foundation, Washington, D.C. ($11,870)

2006 Collaborative Research: The Paleoecology of Plant Use at Nu‘alolo Kai, Kaua‘i: An Integrative Study of Resource Change in Hawaiian Prehistory (with Terry Hunt). Grant funded by the National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. ($68,000 for UHM, $193,000 total with University of Wisconsin.)

2006-08Research 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. ($292,251)

2005-08 An Integrative Historical and Archaeological Study of the Rise to Leadership of Kamehameha the Great, Hawai‘i (with Kēhauani C. Cachola-Abad). Grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington D.C. ($110,000).

2005 The Evolution of Energy Investment in Monumental Statuary of Prehistoric Rapa Nui (Easter Island). (Britton L. Shepardson, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant). National Science Foundation, Washington D.C. ($11,980)

2005 Moloka‘i Archaeological Inventory and Cultural Training Program. Contract with Rural Development Project, Maui Community College, HI. ($43,317)

2003 Archaeological Survey and Inventory of Submerged Resources in Maleolap Lagoon, Republic of the Marshall Islands (with Suzanne Finney). Historic Preservation Office, Government of the Marshall Islands ($25,141)

2003 Developing a Computerized Database System for the Excavated Materials from the Nu‘alolo Kai Site, an Ancient Hawaiian Settlement on the Island of Kaua‘i. Grant awarded by the Hawai‘i Council for the Humanities, Honolulu, HI ($5,000)

Other Accomplishments

2003 Chancellor’s Citation for Meritorious Teaching. University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu.

2003 Keynote Address, The Future of Archaeology in Hawai‘i: Challenging Ourselves. Society for Hawaiian Archaeology Conference, Windward Community College, Kāne‘ohe, HI, October 24.

Terry Hunt

2005 Regents' Medal for Excellence in Teaching, University of Hawai'i (University system-wide award for excellence in teaching)

1991 Presidential Citation for Meritorious Teaching, University of Hawai'i (University-wide award for excellence in teaching)

Gregory Maskarinec

Honors:

1997 Vidhyadhari (Honorary degree of Sanskritic Scholarship) awarded by Yogi Naraharinath, Viswa Brhat Bauddhik Santa Sammelan (Nepal). (First foreigner to receive this honorary degree, in recognition of contributions to the understanding of Nepalese language and culture.)

1995 Birendra Pragyalankar, awarded by His Majesty, Birendra Bir Bakram Shah Dev, King of Nepal, on the recommendation of the Nepal Royal Academy. (Fifth recipient in 25 years of this decoration, the highest award given by Nepal in recognition for outstanding research in Nepalese studies.)

Grants:

1999-2000 Wenner-Gren Foundation Fellowship.

1999-2000 American Philosophy Society Fellowship.

Michael Pietrusewsky

Exchanges and Visiting Professor/Curator Appointments:

2005 Visiting Professor, Department of Anthropology, Auckland University, Auckland, New Zealand

1998 Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences

1997-98 International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan

Recent Awards:

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

2003 Pacific Legacy, Honolulu Contract

2002 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Stable Isotopic Analysis of Carbon and Nitrogen as an Indicator of Paleodietary Change for Pre-State Metal Age Societies in Northeast Thailand (Christopher King, co-PI)

2001 Swift & Harper Archaeological Consulting, Saipan, CNMI Contract from

2001 Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Grant

2000 Academia Sinica, Taipei, Grant

Leslie E. Sponsel

Honors:

UH Excellence in Teaching Award (1986, 1991)

Fulbright Visiting Professor for teaching and research, Biology Section, University of Prince Songkhla, Pattani, Thailand (1994 95)

Entry by Brian Freer in Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Vered Amit, ed., NY: Routledge (2004, pp. 485-486).

Editorial Positions:

Editorial Board for the journal Social Justice: Anthropology, Peace, and Human Rights of the Commission for Peace and Human Rights of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (1999 - 2004)

An Associate Editor and member of the Asia Task Force for the Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, Bron Taylor, Editor-in-Chief (2000 - 2005)

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)

Appointed Positions:

Chair of the American Anthropological Association Commission for Human Rights (1992 1995), Chair of the AAA Committee for Human Rights (1996), and emeritus member of the Advisory Council for the AAA Committee for Human Rights (1999 -)

Advisory Board for the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Harvard University (1999 - )

Invited Speaker:

Concluding speaker at Cornell University international conference on the "Tragedy in the Amazon: Yanomami Voices, Academic Controversy, and the Ethics of Research" (April 7, 2002)

Guest speaker at the retirement celebration for my former professor, Dr. Kenneth A. R. Kennedy, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University (September 30, 2005)

Invited Special Events speaker at East-West Center on "Sacred Sites and Landscapes of Thailand" along with Dr. Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel (May 6, 2007)

Sakamaki Extraordinary Lecture for UH Outreach College on "Spiritual Ecology: Exploring the Relationships between Religions and Environment" (August 1, 2007)

Other Accomplishments:

Since 1987 organized a session every year at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, the majority invited by units of the AAA and two of them as Presidential Sessions

For more information see homepage: http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/Sponsel

Miriam Stark

2004 Elected to SAA Board of Directors (2004-2007): Member-at-Large

2003 Center for Khmer Studies (Siem Reap, Cambodia) grant: $16,000 Pre-Angkorian Political Dynamics and Settlement Organization in Cambodia’s Mekong Delta”

2003 National Science Foundation Archaeology Grant: $173,000 "Historical Ecology of the Mekong Delta"

2002 NSF award for a 3 year archaeological survey in Cambodia.

Geoffrey 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.

2006 Award for Excellence in Application. University of Hawai'i College of Social Sciences award for applied scholarship.

2007, 2006 & 2004 Co-Director, National Endowment for the Humanities Workshop for School Teachers (Landmarks of American History program), "Remembering Pearl Harbor: History, Memory, and Memorial." East-West Center.

2003 Director. National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, "Re-Imagining Indigenous Cultures: The Pacific Islands." East-West Center.

Elected Positions

President, Society for Psychological Anthropology (2001-2003)

Executive Board, American Anthropological Association (1999-2000)

Board of Directors. Arizona Memorial Museum Association (2001-present)

Editorial Positions

Co-Editor. Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific book series. Stanford University Press (2006 - present).

Editorial Board. American Ethnologist (2002-2007)

Editorial Board, Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology (1990-present)

Editor, The Contemporary Pacific (1997-2001). Editorial Board (1987-present)

Christine Yano

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

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