Graduate Students

We enroll close to 100 graduate students at any one time. The majority are focused on studies in Asia and the Pacific, and very often have experience studying, living, and working in foreign countries prior to application and enrollment. This wealth of life experience provides a rich program atmosphere, with ample opportunity to contribute to everything from stimulating seminar discussions to world-class research.

Ashley Atkins

amatkins@hawaii.edu

Program:

PhD

Subfield or Specialization:

Biological Anthropology

Research Interests:

Bioarchaeology, Entheseal Change/ Musculoskeletal Stress Markers, Neolithic Revolution, Wet Paddy Rice Farming, Jomon, Yayoi, Japan

Advisor:

Christopher Bae

Mary Bannister

marybann@hawaii.edu

Program:

Subfield or Specialization:

Cultural Anthropology

Research Interests:

Environmental Health, Psychology, Mental Health, Ethics, Climate Change, Himalayas, Nepal

Advisor:

Jan Brunson

Yiying Chen

cheny6@hawaii.edu

Program:

PhD

Subfield or Specialization:

Biological Anthropology

Research Interests:

Paleoanthropology, Taphonomy, Paleopathology

Advisor:

Christopher Bae

Deirdre Clyde

daclyde@hawaii.edu

Program:

PhD

Subfield or Specialization:

Cultural Anthropology

Research Interests:

Japan, United States, Popular Culture, Media Fandom, Gender and Sexuality, Queer Theory

Advisor:

Christine Yano

Brendan Flanagan

flanag2@hawaii.edu

Program:

PhD

Subfield or Specialization:

Environmental Anthropology

Research Interests:

Conservation Ethics, Human/Forest Relations, Local Knowledge Dynamics, Ethnic Insurgency, Alternative Economies, Burma/Myanmar

Advisor:

Jonathan Padwe

Carola (Kaho) Franzen

cfranzen@hawaii.edu

Program:

PhD

Subfield or Specialization:

Archaeology

Research Interests:

Regional Settlement & Demography, Spatial & Quantitative Analysis, (Semi-)Pastoralism, Secondary State Formation, Imperialism, Fortification, NE China, Korean Peninsula, Mongolia, Pre- & Protohistory

Advisor:

Christian Peterson

Sione Manupuna Funaki

smfunaki@hawaii.edu

Program:

PhD

Subfield or Specialization:

Cultural Anthropology

Research Interests:

Tongan and Hawaiian Kava/’Awa Ceremonies, Diaspora, Indigenous Anthropology, Fonua, Tā-Vā Theory of Reality

Advisor:

Ty Tengan

Elena Hughes

ehughes6@hawaii.edu

Program:

PhD

Subfield or Specialization:

Biological Anthropology

Research Interests:

Forensic Anthropology, Osteology, Skeletal Trauma, Criminal Dismemberment, Taphonomy

Advisor:

Christopher Bae

Emily Tarbet Hust

etarbet@hawaii.edu

Program:

PhD

Subfield or Specialization:

Biological Anthropology

Research Interests:

Forensic Anthropology, Osteology, Bioarchaeology, Age Estimation Methods, Bone Toxicology, Skeletal Markers of Physiological Stress

Advisor:

Christopher Bae

Yi-Yu Lai

yiyulai@hawaii.edu

Program:

PhD

Subfield or Specialization:

Cultural Anthropology

Research Interests:

Southeast Asia (the Philippines), Political Anthropology, Anthropology of State, Indigeneity, Indigenous Politics, Resistance, Cultural Activism

Advisor:

Alex Golub

Tiffany Lee

tlee7@hawaii.edu

Program:

PhD

Subfield or Specialization:

Archaeology

Research Interests:

Stable Isotopes, Environmental Archaeology, Osteology, Bioarchaeology, East Polynesia

Advisor:

Seth Quintus

Jiawei Liu

jiaweil3@hawaii.edu

Program:

PhD

Subfield or Specialization:

Medical Anthropology

Research Interests:

Reproduction Health, Gender and Sexuality, Feminism, Women’s Health, China

Advisor:

Jan Brunson

Ci Yan Sara Loh

cysloh@hawaii.edu

Program:

PhD

Subfield or Specialization:

Environmental Anthropology

Research Interests:

Cultural and Political Ecology, Local and Indigenous Knowledge, Climate Change, Resilience and Adaptation, Environmental Policy, Development, Southeast Asia

Advisor:

Jonathan Padwe

Erin McConkey

emcconke@hawaii.edu

Program:

PhD

Subfield or Specialization:

Medical Anthropology

Research Interests:

Science and Technology Studies, Animal Studies, Snakebite Envenomation, Pharmaceuticals, Thailand

Advisor:

Eirik Saethre

Jacy Miller

jacym@hawaii.edu

Program:

PhD

Subfield or Specialization:

Archaeology

Research Interests:

Western Pacific, Guam’s Latte Period, Settlement Pattern, Subsistence Economy, Landscape Archaeology, Ceramic Ecology

Advisor:

James Bayman

Fiona Miranda

fionaami@hawaii.edu

Program:

Subfield or Specialization:

Biological Anthropology

Research Interests:

High-altitude Adaptation, Osteology, Bone Mineral Density and Atrophy, Tibet, China

Advisor:

Christopher Bae

Isaac Rosenbaum

irosen@hawaii.edu

Program:

Subfield or Specialization:

Cultural Anthropology

Research Interests:

Mining, Environmental Anthropology, Melanesia

Advisor:

Alex Golub

Evan Ryder

elryder@hawaii.edu

Program:

Subfield or Specialization:

Applied Archaeology

Research Interests:

Hawaiʻi, Landscape Archaeology, Spatial & Quantitative Analysis, Agricultural Systems, Ethnoecology

Advisor:

Seth Quintus

Alessandra Shea

agshea@hawaii.edu

Program:

PhD

Subfield or Specialization:

Environmental Anthropology

Research Interests:

Political Ecology, Local and Indigenous Knowledge, Marine Policy, Seascapes, Tahiti

Advisor:

Alex Mawyer

Bailie Smith

bsmith96@hawaii.edu

Program:

PhD

Subfield or Specialization:

Cultural Anthropology

Research Interests:

Demilitarization, Hawaiʻi, Kuleana Anthropology, Oral History Interviewing

Advisor:

Ty Tengan

Jaratnapa Surinlert

jsurinle@hawaii.edu

Program:

PhD

Subfield or Specialization:

Archaeology

Research Interests:

Prehistoric Archaeology, Southeast Asia, Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Human Behavior, Hunter-Gatherer, Environmental Archaeology, Late-Pleistocene to Early Holocene Period, Lithic Analysis

Advisor:

Christian Peterson

Catharine Thetford

thetford@hawaii.edu

Program:

Subfield or Specialization:

Applied Archaeology

Research Interests:

Hawaiian Archaeology, GIS, Remote Sensing, Community Archaeology, Cultural Resource Management (CRM)

Advisor:

Seth Quintus

Rachel Tjoeng

rtjoeng@hawaii.edu

Program:

PhD

Subfield or Specialization:

Medical Anthropology

Research Interests:

Community Based Vaccination Programs, Nursing in Biomedicine, Social Determinants of Health, Food Sovereignty, Racial Bias in Medicine, Mothering/ Mother-child Dynamics

Advisor:

Jan Brunson

Rosalyn Wadsworth

rnw2@hawaii.edu

Program:

Subfield or Specialization:

Archaeology

Research Interests:

Geospatial Analysis, Submerged Landscapes, Underwater Archaeology, Complex Societies

Advisor:

Christian Peterson