Awards, Presentations and Publications by Graduate Students in Anthropology

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 Arts and Sciences Advisory Council Awards

2005 Dai Ho Chun Scholarship Recipient

2005 Arts and Sciences Advisory Council Award

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

2002 Arts & Sciences Advisory Council Award

Maggie Barnhill Bodemer

2002-2003 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) award to study Vietnamese-- from SHAPS and UH Southeast Asian Studies

2001-2002 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) award to study Vietnamese-- from SHAPS and UH Southeast Asian Studies

2000 GUAVA Scholarship to attend VASI (language) program in Hanoi

Jessica Busch

2004-2006 Crown Prince Akihito Scholarship for dissertation study

2002-2003 John Fee Embree Scholarship awarded by the School of Hawaiian, Asian & Pacific Studies to full-time graduate students in anthropology or sociology who focus on Japan or Southeast Asia.

Matthew Carlsen

2000-2002 Crown Prince Akihito Scholarship

Maria Luika Farias

2002 Renewal of Margaret Sloggett Fisher Scholarship

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)

Joseph Genz

2003-2004 FLAS to study Marshallese

2003 Arts & Sciences Advisory Council Award

2003 Dai Ho Chun Graduate Fellowship

2002-2003 Pacific Islands FLAS to study Tahitian

Hirofumi Katsuno

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 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 Awards to attend Media in Transition 2 conference at MIT and JAWS (Japan  Anthropology    Workshop) 2002 at Yale University.

Brandon Ledward

2003 Frances Davis Teaching Assistant Award for Undergraduate Teaching

Regina Woodrom Luna

2000-2003 Pacific Asian Scholarship Award

Jeffrey Maret

2001 Center for Japanese Studies Fellowship

Windy McElroy

2001 Three-year Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship for Minorities

Heather McMillen

2004 National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant

2004 Richard Evans Schultes Ethnobotany Award from the Society for Economic Botany

2004 Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Scholar

2004 Maybelle Roth Scholarship Award for Conservation Biology

2004 Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology Research Award

2004 University of Hawai'i Graduate Division Dai Ho Chun Travel Fellowship

2004 University of Hawai'i Arts & Sciences Advisory Council Award

2003 National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention

2003 Advisory Council Awards, The Colleges of Arts and Sciences, University of Hawai'i.

2003 Graduate Student Organization Travel Award

Yoko Nojima

2002 Dai Ho Chun Scholarship for international students.

Guido Carlo Pigliasco

2005 Institute of Fijian Language and Culture (Ministry of Fijian Affairs, Culture & Heritage and Provincial Development). Grant for multimedia project: "The Sawau Project: An Indigenous Response to the Protection of Cultural Heritage in Beqa"

Brett Shepardson

2002 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to study cultural elaboration in Easter Island

2002 College of Social Sciences travel grant for professional improvement

Jeremy Spoon

2005 Inter-Island Travel Award

2004 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (through 2007)

2003 Graduate Student Organization Travel Award

Naomi Furnish Yamada

2005 - 2007 BP Foundation Scholarship Fund (2) administered by the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara

2006 Student Affiliate, East-West Center

2004 Pacific Asian Scholarship (1) (through 2005)

Toru Yamada

2006 Center for Japanese Studies Graduate Student Travel Awards

2005 Hayano Sasaki Scholarship (1) (through 2006)

2005 Pacific Asian Scholarship (1) (through 2006)

2005 Student Affiliate, East-West Center (through 2006)

2003 Crown Prince Akihito Scholar (2) (through 2005)

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.

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

Hirofumi Katsuno

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 "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.

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)

Heather McMillen

2004 "Date Collection Methods and Database Management for Ethno-pharmacology Research" a workshop co-presented with Sarah Edwards at the Joint Meetings of the International Society for Ethnobiology, Society of Ethnopharmacology, and Society for Economic Botany. University of Kent at Canterbury, England.

2004 "Data Collection Methods and Issues in Ethnobiology Research from Local and International Perspectives" a workshop presented at Aang Serian's Field School in Monduli Juu, Arusha, Tanzania.

2003 "For the Love & Hate of Alien Species: Biodiversity Management & Local Perspectives on Native/Non-native Species in Hawaii" Society for Economic Botany 44th Annual Meeting, Tucson, Arizona.

2003 "Merged Medicines: A Case Study of Local and Biomedical Practitioners in Tanzania" Society of Ethnobiology 23rd Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington.

Guido Carlo Pigliasco

October 2005. "Mapping A Culture: The Sawau Project", interview given to Pacific Magazine, October issue, p.26.

July 2005. "Magic of the Isles", interview given to FijiSun-Weekender, July 23, p.2.

July 2005. "Unraveling the Myth Behind the Beqa Firewalkers", interview given to Fiji TV/ Fiji One News, July 1.

May 2005. "Indigenous vs. Non-Indigenous Research Methodologies: A Debate?", paper presented at the Na ituvatuva ni kilaka itaukei kei na kena matanataki (National Inventory on Traditional Fijian Knowledge and Expressions of Culture Project) Training Workshop, Institute of Fijian Language & Culture, Suva, Fiji.

May 2005. "Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights and Sui Generis Protection", paper presented at WIPO Day Celebrations, Ministry of Fijian Affairs, Culture & Heritage and Provincial Development, Suva, Fiji.

May 2005. "Flames of Change: Tourist Dollars Inspire Firewalkers", interview given to FijiSun-Weekender, May 7, pp. 1-2.

July 2004. [in absentia] Te Maire Nui (directed by Susanna Francalanci and Guido C. Pigliasco) Milano: RTI-Mediaset, 1992. Film screening presented at the "Pacific Cultures in International Film", 9th Festival of Pacific Arts, Palau Community College.

Brett Shepardson

2002 Presented a paper entitled "Temporal-Spatial patterns of energy investment in the statuary of Easter Island" at the 67th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Denver.

2001 Presented a paper entitled "Chronological analyses of the megalithic statues of Easter Island" at the 66th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in New Orleans.

Toru Yamada

2007 Presented a paper entitled “Reappraising the Edifices: Japan’s Historic Churches in the Era of World Heritage Preservation” at 17th Annual Graduate Student Conference, the School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies, the University of Hawaii in Honolulu.

2006 Presented a paper entitled "Contesting the Sacred in the Discourse of Cultural Heritage" at the 19th annual meeting of the Japan Studies Association of Canada in Kamloops, BC, Canada.

 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."

Mickaelle-Hinanui Cauchois

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

Hirofumi Katsuno

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.

Forthcoming "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.

Regina Woodrom Luna

2001. What is Public Anthropology? A case study example. Journal of Public Anthropology: The Graduate Journal. No. 2001b.

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 No. 15

2003. Traditional Food Prohibitions (tapu) regarding Marine Turtle among Pacific Islanders. SPC Traditional Marine Resource Management and Knowledge Information Bulletin No. 15.

Heather McMillen

2004 The Adapting Healer: Pioneering Through Shifting Epidemiological Landscapes. Social Science & Medicine 59:889-902.

Guido Carlo Pigliasco

2005 "Lost in Translation : from Omiyage to Souvenir, Beyond Aesthetics of the Japanese Office Ladies' Gaze in Hawaii". In Journal of Material Culture 10(2): 177-196.

2005. The Sawau Project: An Indigenous Response to the Protection of Cultural Heritage in Beqa. Suva: Institute of Fijian Language & Culture Ministry of Fijian Affairs, Culture & Heritage, Provincial Development [mutimedia DVD]

2002. "Rapa Nui: L'isola del Mistero", MT-Channel, Milano, Italy: Mediaset-R.T.I. [videorecording]

2001. "Traces of Lapita Man on Waya". In Ligabue Magazine, 1st semester issue, pp. 86-111

Multiple Authors (students' names italicized)

S.S. Barnes and T.H. Hunt

2005 "Samoa's pre-contact connection in West Polynesia and beyond," The Journal of the Polynesian Society

Etkin, N.L. and H. McMillen

2002 The Ethnobotany of Noni: Dwelling in the Land Between La'au Lapa~au and TestiNONIals. UH-CHTAR, Honolulu

Genz, J. and T. Hunt

2003 El Nino/Southern Oscillation and Rapa Nui Prehistory. Rapa Nui Journal 17(1):7-14.

Gollin, L.X. and H. McMillen

2004 Methods for eliciting local valuations of plants as a first step towards informing community participation in environment and health initiatives in Hawai'i. Applied Environmental Education and Communication 3(4):1-9.

Hirofumi Katsuno and Christine R. Yano

Forthcoming "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.

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