Department of Anthropology Faculty

Our faculty research and teach about human evolution and ecology; race and human variation; health and demography; gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nationalism, and indigeneity; social interaction, inequality, and the creation of local and global structures of domination and resistance.

Christopher J. Bae

Professor
Office: Dean 211
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-8193
Email: cjbae@hawaii.edu
Paleoanthropology, Eastern Asia

James Bayman, Faculty, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

James M. Bayman

Professor
Office: Dean 205
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-8511
Email: jbayman@hawaii.edu
Archaeology, Culture Contact, Colonialism

Jan Brunson

Associate Professor
Office: Saunders 309
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-2007
Email: jbrunson@hawaii.edu
Medical Anthropology, Women's Health, Nepal

Alex Golub

Associate Professor
Office: Saunders 313
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-6575
Email: golub@hawaii.edu
Cultural Anthropology, Pacific, Politics

Pat Kirch, Faculty, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Patrick V. Kirch

Professor
Office: Dean 101/A
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-3366
Email: kirch@hawaii.edu
Archaeology, Historical Anthropology, Polynesia

Jonathan Padwe

Associate Professor
Office: Saunders 317
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-2707
Email: padwe@hawaii.edu
Environmental Anthropology, Southeast Asia

Christian Peterson, Faculty, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Christian E. Peterson

Professor, Graduate Chair
Office: Dean 204
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-8460
Email: cepeter@hawaii.edu
Complex Societies, China, Southern Africa

Seth Quintus

Associate Professor, Undergraduate Chair
Office: Dean 201
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-9820
Email: squintus@hawaii.edu
Environmental Archaeology, Agriculture, Oceania

Barry Rolett, Faculty, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Barry V. Rolett

Professor
Office: Saunders 304
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-7546
Email: rolett@hawaii.edu
Archaeology, Polynesia, China

Eirik Saethre

Professor, Department Chair
Office: Saunders 346E/306
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-3995
Email: saethre@hawaii.edu
Sociocultural and Medical Anthropology

Ann Sakaguchi

Specialist
Office: Saunders 336
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-8454
Email: annsakag@hawaii.edu
Disaster Management, Public Health

Miriam Stark

Professor
Office: Dean 203C
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-7552
Email: miriams@hawaii.edu
Archaeology, Material Culture, Southeast Asia

Ty Tengan, Faculty, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Ty Kawika P. Tengan

Professor
Office: Saunders 314
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-7831
Email: ttengan@hawaii.edu
Indigeneity, Masculinity, Hawaiʻi

View our Anthropology Associated Faculty

Retired/Emeritus Faculty

Michael Graves, Emeritus Faculty, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Michael Graves (mwgraves@unm.edu)

Traditional Agriculture, Complexity, Polynesia

P. Bion Griffin, Emeritus Faculty, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

P. Bion Griffin (griffin@hawaii.edu)

Ethnoarchaeology, Hunter-Gatherers Elephants

Alan Howard, Emeritus Faculty, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Alan Howard (ahoward@hawaii.edu)

Polynesia, Diaspora, Cultural Identity

Michael Pietrusewsky, Emeritus Faculty, Department of Anthropology

Michael Pietrusewsky (mikep@hawaii.edu)

Bioarchaeology, Biodistance, Asia & Pacific

Leslie Sponsel, Emeritus Faculty, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Leslie Sponsel (sponsel@hawaii.edu)

Spiritual Ecology, Buddhist Ecology

Geoffrey White, Emeritus Faculty, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Geoffrey White (white@hawaii.edu)

Ethnography, War Memory, Oceania, France

Christine Yano, Faculty, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Christine Yano (cryano@hawaii.edu)

Popular Culture, Japan, Japanese Americans

Additional emeriti:

Terry L. Hunt

Emeriti Faculty - In Memoriam

Andrew R. Arno (PhD, Harvard University, 1974) - Legal Anthropology, Ethnography of Communication, Kinship and Social Organization, Pacific
Jack Bilmes (PhD, Stanford, 1974) - Ling. Anthro., Occasioned Semantics, Discourse
C. Fred Blake (PhD, University of Illinois, 1975) - Critical and Interpretive Theory, Ethnography and Biography, Popular Ideologies, Social Movements and Entrepreneurship in the Modern World Economy, China, U.S.
Stephen T. Boggs (PhD, University of Washington, 1954) - Sociolinguistics and socialization, methods, education, ethnic groups in Hawaiʻi
Alice G. Dewey (PhD, Radcliffe College, 1959) - Economic, Kinship, Javanese Conceptual Frameworks, Southeast Asia, Pacific
Nina L. Etkin (PhD, University of Washington, 1975) - Biological and Medical Anthropology, Ethnobotany, Diet, Ethnopharmacology, CAM, West Africa, Pacific, Indonesia
Ben R. Finney (PhD, Harvard University, 1964) - Polynesian Voyaging, Humanity in Space, Contemporary Pacific
Takie S. Lebra (PhD, University of Pittsburgh, 1967) - Culture and Self, Communication, Gender, Career, Elite, Japan