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, Department Chair
Office: Saunders 346E
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-8193
Email: cjbae@hawaii.edu
Paleoanthropology, Eastern Asia
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, Graduate Chair
Office: Saunders 313
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-6575
Email: golub@hawaii.edu
Cultural Anthropology, Pacific, Politics
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, Undergraduate Chair
Office: Saunders 317
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-2707
Email: padwe@hawaii.edu
Environmental Anthropology, Southeast Asia
Christian E. Peterson
Professor
Office: Dean 204
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-8460
Email: cepeter@hawaii.edu
Regional Analysis, Household Archaeology, China
Seth Quintus
Associate Professor
Office: Dean 201
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-9820
Email: squintus@hawaii.edu
Environmental Archaeology, Agriculture, Oceania
Barry V. Rolett
Professor
Office: Saunders 304
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-7546
Email: rolett@hawaii.edu
Archaeology, Polynesia, China
Eirik Saethre
Professor
Office: Saunders 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 Kawika P. Tengan
Professor
Office: Saunders 314
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-7831
Email: ttengan@hawaii.edu
Indigeneity, Masculinity, Hawaiʻi
Christine Yano
Professor
Office: Saunders 322
Telephone: 1 (808) 956-4447
Email: cryano@hawaii.edu
Popular Culture, Japan, Japanese Americans
Michael Graves (mwgraves@unm.edu)
Traditional Agriculture, Complexity, Polynesia
P. Bion Griffin (griffin@hawaii.edu)
Ethnoarchaeology, Hunter-Gatherers Elephants
Alan Howard (ahoward@hawaii.edu)
Polynesia, Diaspora, Cultural Identity
Michael Pietrusewsky (mikep@hawaii.edu)
Bioarchaeology, Biodistance, Asia & Pacific
Leslie Sponsel (sponsel@hawaii.edu)
Spiritual Ecology, Buddhist Ecology
Geoffrey White (white@hawaii.edu)
Ethnography, War Memory, Oceania, France
Additional emeriti:
- Stephen T. Boggs
- 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.
- 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