Associated Faculty

Cooperating Graduate Faculty

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

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

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

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

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

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

Michael Hamnett (PhD, RCUH) 
Applied policy research, economic development, research management; Oceania <hamnett@hawaii.edu> 

Pensri Ho ( PhD, Ethnic Studies )
Transnational migration, globalization, asian Americans, ethnographic film; US <pensri@hawaii.edu>

Roderick Labrador ( PhD, Director, GEAR UP, Student Affairs)
Cultural anthropology, identity, immigration political economy, globalization and diaspora; Hawai'i/Pacific, Philippines, Filipina/American and Asia Pacific America <labrador@hawaii.edu>

Peter R. Mills (PhD)
archaeology, culture contact, lithic analysis, ethnohistory; Polynesia, North Pacific, North America <millsp@hawaii.edu>

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

Miriam Sharma (PhD, Ctr for South Asian Studies) 
Political economy, development, class formation and gender relations, radical feminist theory; India <csas@hawaii.edu> 

Affiliate Graduate Faculty

Melinda S. Allen ( PhD, U. of Washington; Anthropology; U 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 <msallen@auckland.ac.nz>

Mark Allen (PhD UCLA; California State Polytechnic University Pomona)
Archaeology , cultural resource management, cultural complexity, chiefdoms, archaeology of warfare, hunter-gatherers; California, New Zealand <mwallen@scupomona.edu>

J. Stephen Athens (PhD U New Mexico; 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 <iarii@aloha.net> 

Nicholas Barker (PhD Cambridge U; 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, (PhD Durham University, UK)
Bioarchaeology; isotope analysis, farming, human mobility, Southeast Asia. <r.a.bentley@durham.ac.uk>

Robert Borofsky (PhD UHM; Hawaii Pacific U) 
Anthropology of knowledge, symbolic analysis, medical anthropology; Polynesia <borofsky@hpu.edu>

C. Kehaunani Cachola-Abad (PhD UHM; Kamehameha Schools)
Archaeology, oral traditions, historic preservation, evolution; Hawaii and Polynesia <abad@concentric.net>

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

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

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

Tianlong Jiao (PhD Harvard; Bishop Museum) 
Transition from hunting-gathering to farming, maritime adaptation, complex society, early state formation, China, southeast Asia 

Thegn Ladefoged (PhD UHM, University of Auckland)
Archaeology, Oceanic prehistory, socio-political transformation, agricultural intensification GIS; Polynesia <t.ladefoged@auckland.ac.nz>

Heather Young Leslie, (PhD Victoria U)
Cultural construction of 'health', medical professionals & medical systems (across time and space), midwifery, gender, 'the body', development, qualitative methodologies, and women's material culture. <hyleslie@hawaii.edu>

Gerald G. Marten (PhD, Zoology)
Population dynamics, ecosystem ecology, animal behavior, statistics, mathematical modeling, population genetics <MartenG@EastWestCenter.org>

Gregory G. Maskarinec (PhD UH; Dir of Research, FPCH) 
Anth of language (Nepalese oral texts), western biomedical clinical med, mededucation and indigenous med systems of S. Asia; religions (belief systems, ritual and performance) <gregorym@hawaii.edu> 

John A. Peterson (PhD UT Austin; Anthropology; Director, Micronesian Area Research Center, University of Guam)
archaeology, historical ecology, landscapes, historical archaeology; Hawaii-Pacific, Philippines, American Southwest <johnap@hawaii.edu>

Robert M Schact (PhD U Michigan; Research Director, Pacific Rehabilitation Research and Training Center, UH Manoa)
human development, applied anthropology, disability studies; North America, Pacific <schacht@hawaii.edu>

Douglas Yen (DSc, Professor Emeritus, Australian National University)
Oceanic agriculture, origins, development. Ethnobotany, Biomolecular analysis, applications to ethnobotany, anthropology <dougyen@yahoo.com>

Adjunct Faculty

Nancy Cooper (PhD UHM; Lecturer)
Cultural Anthropology, Southeast Asian studies, gender studies, Java <ncooper@hawaii.edu>

Nancy Kleiber (PhD UC Davis; Lecturer)
Women's health care, feminist anthropologies; Pacific Islands <nankleiber@hawaii.rr.com>

Jan Rensel, (PhD UHM; Center for Pacific Islands Studies)
Socio-economic change, housing change, migrant communities; Polynesia <rensel@hawaii.edu> 

Paul J. Ross, (MA Washington U) 
Quantitative methods, nutritional and medical anthropology, human ecology, medical systems, field methods in cultural anthropology; West Africa <paul@fhs-hi.org>

Jaida Samudra (PhD UHM; Adjunct Assistant Professor/Lecturer)
Cultural anthropology, identity, ethnic-nationalisms, socialities, the body in kinesthetic cultures, experiential ethnography, history of social theory, Chinese diaspora, Southeast Asia, Indonesia <jaida@hawaii.edu>  

Jay E. Silverstein, (PhD Penn State U) 
archaeology of militarism and frontiers, the rise and fall of complex societies; Mesoamerica <Jay.Silverstein@JPAC.PACOM.MIL> 

Stephen M. Younger (PhD U Maryland)
Computer Simulation of normative behavior in small societies, reciprocity, violence, war; Pacific societies <smyounger@lanl.gov> 

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