Ph.D. Degrees awarded in Anthropology
at the University of Hawai'i 1980 to 1989

PhDs 1967-1979

PhDs 1980-1989

PhDs 1990-1999

PhDs 2000-

MAs 1930-1959

MAs 1960-1969

MAs 1970-1979

MAs 1980-1989

MAs 1990-1999

MAs 2000-

Name

Year

Chair

Area

Title

Fitzgerald, Maureen

1989

Lieban

Cultural

Modernization and the menstrual experience among Samoans

Moir, Barbara

1989

Griffin

Ecology

Mariculture and material culture on Takuu atoll: Indigenous cultivation of tridacna gigas (mollusca: bivalvia) and its implications for pre-European technology, resource management, and social relations on a Polynesian outlier

Prasad, Usha

1989

Howard

Ecology

A cross cultural comparison of filarial disease in the Fiji Islands

Klieger, Paul

1989

Blake

Cultural

Accomplishing Tibetan identity: The constitution of a national consciousness

Larson, Bruce

1989

Linnekin

Cultural

Sojourning and personhood: College students return to Truk, Federated States of Micronesia

Nitta, Fumiteru

1989

Lebra, T.

Cultural

The Japanese father, American mother, and their children: Bicultural socialization experiences in Japan

Levitt, Marta

1988

Dewey

Cultural

From sickles to scissors: Birth, traditional birth attendants and perinatal health development in rural Nepal

Allen, Jane

1988

Solheim II

Ecology

Trade, transportation, and tributaries: Exchange, agricultural, and settlement distribution in early historic-period Kedah, Malaysia

Soh, Chung Hee

1987

Howard

Cultural

Korean women in politics (1945-1985): A study of the dynamics of gender role change

Wilen, Richard

1987

Solheim II

Ecology

The context of prehistoric food production in the Khorat plateau piedmont, n.e. Thailand

Dubois, Barbara

1987

Howard

Cultural

Hypertension and social support: The medical anthropology of older, urban Samoans

D'Amato, John

1986

Bilmes

Cultural

"We cool, tha's why": A study of personhood and place in a class of Hawaiian second graders

Brooks, Charles

1986

Bilmes

Cultural

Changing realities in an Indian pilgrimage town: Symbolic interactions between the people of Vrindaban and Hare Krishna devotees

Goto, Akira

1986

Griffin

Ecology

Prehistoric ecology and economy of fishing in Hawaii: an ethnoarchaeological approach

Headland, Thomas

1986

Griffin

Ecology

Why foragers do not become farmers

Welch, David

1985

Solheim II

Archaeology

Intensive agriculture and regional exchange at late prehistoric centers in the Phimai region, Thailand

Tsui, Elaine

1985

Dewey

Cultural

Education and the changing role of working women in urban Taiwan

Epstein, Joshua

1985

Dewey

Cultural

Dependency and affluence as challenges to national development in Palau

Podhisita, Chai

1985

Dewey

Ecology

Peasant household strategies: A study of production and reproduction in a northeastern Thai village

Franco, Robert

1985

Howard

Cultural

Samoan perceptions of work: Moving up and moving around

Zialcita, Fernando

1984

Lieban

Cultural

Kinsmen and voluntary associations in two Ilocano communities

Kahane, Joyce

1984

Lieban

Cultural

The role of the "western" pharmacist in rural Taiwanese medical culture

Bath, Joyce

1984

Griffin

Archaeology

A tale of two cities: An evaluation of political evolution in the eastern Caroline Islands of Micronesia since a.d. 1000

Kirch, Debra

1984

Dewey

Cultural

Tourism as conflict in Polynesia: Status degradation among Tongan handicraft sellers

Burch, Carol

1984

Dewey

Ecology

A structure in resilience: Subsistence strategies of the To Mak Toraja (Indonesia)

Dahal, Dilli Ram

1983

Dewey

Cultural

Poverty or plenty: Innovative responses to population pressure in an eastern Nepalese hill community

Lovelace, George

1983

Solheim II

Archaeology

Man, land, and mind in historic south coastal China: An ecological diachronic consideration of Chinese wet-rice agricultural settlement in the northwestern new territories of Hong Kong

MacDonald, James

1982

Dewey

Cultural

Cognitive aggregate and social group: The ethnic Portuguese of Honolulu

Rai, Navin

1982

Griffin

Ecology

From forest to field: A study of Philippine Negrito foragers in transition

Cadelina, Rowe

1982

Lieban

Ecology

Batak interhousehold food sharing: A systemic analysis of food management of marginal agriculturalists in the Philippines

Borofsky, Robert

1982

Lieban

Cultural

The creation of traditional knowledge in Pukapuka, a Polynesian atoll

Cleghorn, Paul

1982

Solheim II

Archaeology

The Mauna Kea adze quarry: Technological analysis of experimental tests

Gray, Dennis

1982

Lieban

Cultural

Sociocultural determinants of illness behavior: The treatment strategies of arthritis sufferers

Sando, Ruth Ann

1981

Blake

Cultural

The meaning of rural areas: Depopulation in a Taiwanese farming community

Jamieson III, Neil

1981

Lebra, T.

Cultural

Vietnam: A study of continuity and change in a sociocultural system

Prachuabmoh, Chavivun

1980

Howard

Cultural

The role of women in maintaining ethnic identity and boundaries: A case of Thai-Muslims (the Malay speaking group) in southern Thailand

Sutter, Frederic

1980

Boggs

Cultural

Communal versus individual socialization at home and in school in rural and urban Western Samoa

                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

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