Current MA and PhD Students

The following are select anthropology graduate degree candidates.

Sloane Agruss, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Sloane Agruss

Email: eagruss@hawaii.edu

Program: MA · Subfield or Specialization: Archaeology

Research Interests: Geoarchaeology, Sediment Cores, Pacific Archaeology, Palynology, Micropaleontology

Advisor: Seth Quintus

Anthony Alvarezr, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Anthony Alvarez

Email: akalvare@hawaii.edu

Program: PhD · Subfield or Specialization: Archaeology

Research Interests: Anthropological Archaeology, Spanish Colonial Archaeology (Guam, the Philippines, and California), Archaeology of Religion, Cultural Resource Management (CRM)

Advisor: James Bayman

Nadia Arzberger, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Nadia Arzberger

Email: narzberg@hawaii.edu

Program: MA · Subfield or Specialization: Archaeology

Research Interests: Archaeology, Pottery, Food Culture, Korea Three Kingdoms, Trade, Yayoi, Yamato, East Asia, Korea, Japan, China

Advisor: Christopher Bae

Ashley Atkins, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Ashley Atkins

Email: 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

Mary Bannister

Email: marybann@hawaii.edu

Program: MA · Subfield or Specialization: Cultural Anthropology

Research Interests: Environmental Health, Psychology, Mental Health, Ethics, Climate Change, Himalayas, Nepal

Advisor: Jan Brunson

Brennan Chambers, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Brennan Chambers

Email: bvcham@hawaii.edu

Program: MA · Subfield or Specialization: Applied Archaeology

Research Interests: Archaeology, Zooarchaeology, Marine Resource Use, Subsistence Economy, Cultural Resource Management (CRM)

Advisor: Jim Bayman

Deirdre Clyde, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Deirdre Clyde

Email: 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

Naomi Doherty, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Naomi Doherty

Email: ndoherty@hawaii.edu

Program: MA · Subfield or Specialization: Applied Cultural Anthropology

Research Interests: Cultural Health, Youth empowerment, Kuleana Anthropology, Community Building, Public Art/Murals, Artistic Self-Representation, TEK, Community Gardens, Food Sovereignty

Advisor: Ty Tengan

Brendan Flanagan, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Brendan Flanagan

Email: 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

Phoebe France, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Phoebe France

Email: pfrance@hawaii.edu

Program: PhD · Subfield or Specialization: Archaeology

Research Interests: Southeast Asia, Cambodia, Paleobotanical Analysis, Spatial Analysis

Advisor: Miriam Stark

Carola Franzen, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Carola (Kaho) Franzen

Email: 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

Sione Manupuna Funaki

Email: 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, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Elena Hughes

Email: 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, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Emily Tarbet Hust

Email: 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

Phianphachong Intarat, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Phianphachong Intarat

Email: pintarat@hawaii.edu

Program: PhD · Subfield or Specialization: Cultural Anthropology

Research Interests: Labor Migration in Southeast Asia, Gender, Borderlands Studies

Advisor: Jonathan Padwe

Emmaline Irvine, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Emmaline Irvine

Email: erirvine@hawaii.edu

Program: MA · Subfield or Specialization: Applied Archaeology

Research Interests: Pacific Archaeology, Polynesia, Museums, Subsistence, Community Based Archaeology

Advisor: Barry Rolett

Kinsey Justa, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Kinsey Justa

Email: khess@hawaii.edu

Program: MA · Subfield or Specialization: Environmental Anthropology

Research Interests: Southeast Asia and Singapore. Intersection of Cultural Memory and Technology in Urban Coastal Communities. Sustainable Futures

Advisor: Jonathan Padwe

Yi Yu Lai, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Yi-Yu Lai

Email: 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, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Tiffany Lee

Email: tlee7@hawaii.edu

Program: PhD · Subfield or Specialization: Archaeology

Research Interests: Stable Isotopes, Environmental Archaeology, Osteology, Bioarchaeology, East Polynesia

Advisor: Seth Quintus

Pūlama Lima, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Pūlama Lima

Email: calima@hawaii.edu

Program: PhD · Subfield or Specialization: Archaeology

Research Interests: Pacific/Hawaiian Archaeology, Indigenous-Community Based Archaeology, Cultural Resource Management (CRM), Ethnohistory, Social Complexity, Archaeology of Ritual & Ideology, Archaeoastronomy

Advisors: Patrick Kirch

Jiawei Liu, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Jiawei Liu

Email: jiaweil3@hawaii.edu

Program: PhD · Subfield or Specialization: Medical Anthropology

Research Interests: Reproduction Health, Gender and Sexuality, Feminism, Women's Health, China

Advisors: Jan Brunson

Ci Yan Sara Loh, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Ci Yan Sara Loh

Email: 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

Advisors: Jonathan Padwe

Yi Ma, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Yi Ma

Email: mayi@hawaii.edu

Program: PhD · Subfield or Specialization: Cultural Anthropology

Research Interests: Gem Trading and Mining, Borders, Markets, Southeast Asia, Southwest China

Advisors: Alex Golub

Erin McConkey, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Erin McConkey

Email: emcconke@hawaii.edu

Program: PhD · Subfield or Specialization: Medical Anthropology

Research Interests: Science and Technology Studies, Animal Studies, Snakebite Envenomation, Pharmaceuticals, Thailand

Advisors: Eirik Saethre

Jacyv Miller, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Jacy Miller

Email: 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, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Fiona Miranda

Email: fionaami@hawaii.edu

Program: MA · Subfield or Specialization: Biological Anthropology

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

Advisor: Christopher Bae

Rita Ryan, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Rita Ryan

Email: rkscott@hawaii.edu

Program: MA · Subfield or Specialization: Medical Anthropology

Research Interests: Chronic Pain, Disability, Feminist, Queer, & Crip Anthropology, Graphic Medicine, Phenomenology

Advisor: Eirik Saethre

Alessandra Shea, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Alessandra Shea

Email: 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

Hae Eun Shin, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Hae Eun Shin

Email: haeeun@hawaii.edu

Program: PhD · Subfield or Specialization: Cultural Anthropology

Research Interests: Socialism, Agency, Performing Arts, North Korea

Advisor: Christopher J. Bae

Bailie Smith, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Bailie Smith

Email: bsmith96@hawaii.edu

Program: PhD · Subfield or Specialization: Cultural Anthropology

Research Interests: Demilitarization, Hawaiʻi, Kuleana Anthropology, Oral History Interviewing

Advisor: Ty Tengan

Jaratnapa Surinlert, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Jaratnapa Surinlert

Email: 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, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Catharine Thetford

Email: thetford@hawaii.edu

Program: MA · Subfield or Specialization: Applied Archaeology

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

Advisor: Seth Quintus

Rachel Tjoeng, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Rachel Tjoeng

Email: 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

Kylie Tuitavuki, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Kylie Tuitavuki

Email: kylietui@hawaii.edu

Program: MA · Subfield or Specialization: Archaeology

Research Interests: Environmental Archaeology, Community Archaeology, Pre-Contact Western Polynesia, Human-Ecosystem Dynamics, Sustainable Agriculture, Resource Management, Plant-Soil Interactions, Geochemistry

Advisor: Patrick Kirch

Jenny Ung, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Jenny Ung

Email: jennyung@hawaii.edu

Program: MA · Subfield or Specialization: Cultural Anthropology

Research Interests: Cambodia, Chinese Diaspora, Genocide, Refugees, Migration, Journalism, Transnationalism

Advisor: Jonathan Padwe

Jenessa White, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Jenessa White

Email: jmw9@hawaii.edu

Program: MA · Subfield or Specialization: Medical Anthropology

Research Interests: Consumption, Subversion, Medicalization of Beauty, Food, Social Media, South Korea

Advisor: Eirik Saethre