Research
MA Theses
Mary Tuti Baker (MA, 2010)
Challenging Imperial Capitalism: Sustainable Self-Determination Strategies On Moloka‘i, Hawai‘i
Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar (MA, 2006)
Ambivalence and Appropriation: Imperial Hegemony and the Resuscitation of the Hawaiian State
Megumi Chibana (MA, 2012)
(Re)-Discovering Okinawan Indigeneity: Articulation and Activism
Jolyn Garidan-Prieto (MA)
Senate Bill 2783 (HI Session 2012) - Why now? And what is the correlation between land and power in Hawaiʻi?
Jonathan Hui (MA, 2017)
The Metaphor is the Message: Analyzing environmental images of the futures in the American imaginary
Willy Kauai (MA, 2006)
Indigenous Politics and the Hawaiian State
Rachel Loo (MA, 2013)
Hulihia: The Story of Kanaka Hawaiʻi Resistance During the Political Ban on Hula
Carisa Nakamura (MA, 2018)
The Cybernetics of Discourse: Rule Making Processes and Federal Recognition in Hawaiʻi
Nadezna Ortega (MA)
Matris Ti Kinaasinno: Womb of Being
Ponipate Rokolekutu (MA, 2007)
The Politicization of Fijian Land and the Paradox of Indigenous Ownership
Ashley Schaffer (MA, 2017)
Approaches to Ending Animal Suffering
Summer Starr (MA, 2010)
It's in the Stars: Navigating Towards Decolonization
PhD Dissertations
Luʻukia Archer (PhD, 2016)
He Pou Heʻe I Ka Wawā: Slipping into the Tumult of Life and Politics
Mary “Tuti” Baker (PhD, 2018)
Hoʻoulu ʻĀina: Engaging Aloha ʻĀina Enacting Indigenous Futurities
Leilani Basham (PhD, 2007)
I Mau ke Ea o ka 'Āina i ka Pono: He Puke Mele Lāhui no ka Lāhui Hawaiʻi
Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar (PhD, 2014)
The Politics of Mauna Kea Astronomy and States of Becoming: Kanaka Indigeneity, Monumental Science, and the Imperatives of Settler Colonialism in Occupied Hawaiʻi
Megumi Chibana (PhD, 2018)
Till the Soil and Fill the Soul: Indigenous Resurgence and Everyday Practices of Farming in Okinawa
Mary-Lindsey Correa (PhD)
Kūlana Pānoʻonoʻo: Aloha ‘Āina Discourse within a Hawaiian Political Imaginary
Kahikina de Silva (PhD, 2018)
Iwikuamoʻo ka Lāhui: Nā Manaʻo Aloha ʻĀina I Nā Mele Nahenahe o ka Lāhui Hawaiʻi
Pualeilani Fernandez (PhD, 2013)
‘O Ke Kānāwai i Kalana Ola: Hawaiʻi’s Public Health and the Law
Lorenz Gonschor (PhD, 2016)
“A Power in the World”: The Hawaiian Kingdom as a Model of Hybrid Statecraft in Oceania and a Progenitor of Pan-Oceanianism
Sydney Iaukea (PhD, 2008)
E Paʻa ʻOukou: Holding and Remembering Hawaiian Understandings of Place and Politics
Karen Ingersoll (PhD, 2009)
Seascape Epistemology: Decolonization within Hawaiʻi’s Neocolonial Surf Tourism Industry
Malia Kaʻaihue (PhD, 2010)
I ka ʻŌlelo nō ke Ola, i ka ʻŌlelo nō ka Make: Deconstructing Hawaiian Children's Literature
RaeDeen Keahiolalo-Karasuda (PhD, 2009)
The Colonial Carceral and Prison Politics in Hawaiʻi
Noʻeau Peralto (PhD, 2018)
Kokolo Mai Ka Mole ʻUaua o ʻĪ: The Resilience & Resurgence of Aloha ʻĀina in Hāmākua Hikina, Hawaiʻi
ʻUmi Perkins (PhD, 2013)
Kuleana: A Genealogy of Native Tenant Rights
Yong Zhang (PhD, 2013)
Thread Unwoven: Politics, Indigenous Knowledge, Ethnic Identity and Community-Based Cultural-Ecological Conservation in Ethnic Rural Regions in Southwest China—A Case Study of Tujia Brocade