Department News

We are excited to share some vibrant updates from the Department of Anthropology! Our program continues to flourish, with the number of anthropology majors steadily increasing. This year, we welcomed fourteen new graduate …

The following students received their Masters degree in Anthropology in 2023-2024: The following students received their PhD degree in Anthropology in 2023-2024. Their dissertation titles follow their names:

Professor Chris Bae’s new book, The Paleoanthropology of East Asia, was recently published by the University of Hawai’i Press. Research in human evolution in Asia has long been thought to lag far behind similar …

Professor Seth Quintus is the recipient of the 2024 UH Mānoa College of Social Sciences Award for Excellence in Teaching. Prof. Quintus noted that part of the evaluation process for this award was …

Anthropology PhD candidate Yi-Yu Lai won the 2023 Outstanding Graduate Paper Prize from the Society for East Asian Anthropology (SEAA). “Combining rich historical research with transnational ethnographic fieldwork, the paper offers rare insight …

My name is ʻUlise Funaki and I was born and raised on the island of Hawaiʻi. My mother is Hawaiian Ilokano from Nakalei Camp in Paʻauilo and my father is Tongan from Fuaʻamotu. …

The core of archaeological practice takes place in the field, through the surveying, recording, and excavation of sites on the landscape. Thus for students to become fully trained in archaeological methods and techniques …

In a first, UH Mānoa doctoral student Pūlama Lima opted to receive her PhD degree at the commencement ceremony held at the Maui College’s Molokaʻi extension campus in Kaunakakai on May 10. Pūlama, …