Department of Anthropology

College of Social Sciences
Saunders Hall 346
2424 Maile Way
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808) 956-8415
Fax: (808) 956-4893
Email: anthprog@hawaii.edu
Web: anthropology.manoa.hawaii.edu

Faculty

*S. Quintus, PhD (Chair)—archaeology; agricultural economics, historical ecology; landscape archaeology; geoarchaeology; settlement patterns; quantitative methods; Oceania
*C. E. Peterson, PhD (Graduate Chair)—archaeology, comparative study, early complex societies, regional settlement patterns, household archaeology, quantitative methods; China and Southern Africa
*J. Brunson, PhD (Undergraduate Chair)—medical anthropology, fertility and reproduction, maternal health, new medical technologies, structural and interpersonal violence, gender, family; Nepal
*C. J. Bae, PhD—biological anthropology, paleoanthropology, vertebrate taphonomy, Out of Africa I, modern human origins; China, Korea, Japan
*J. M. Bayman, PhD—archaeology, craft economies; North America, U.S. Southwest, Hawaiʻi
*A. Golub, PhD—cultural anthropology, kinship and identity, governance, indigenous land tenure, mining and natural resources, common and intellectual property, semiotic technologies, Papua New Guinea, Melanesia, massively multiplayer online video games
*P. Kirch, PhD—archaeology and historical anthropology, evolution of complex societies, dynamically-coupled human-natural systems, Oceania with particular emphasis on Polynesia and Hawaiʻi
*J. Padwe, PhD—environmental anthropology; agro-ecology; war and the environment; ethnicity; Southeast Asia (Cambodia), South America (Paraguay, Bolivia)
*B. V. Rolett, PhD—archaeology; Pacific Islands, Southeast China
*E. J. Saethre, PhD—medical anthropology, indigenous health, HIV/AIDS, biomedical interventions; Aboriginal Australia, South Africa
*A. M. Sakaguchi, PhD—medical anthropology, public health, medical malpractice, globalization and its impact on emerging and re-emerging diseases, health disparities, health care disparities, Japanese literature and history
*M. Stark, PhD—archaeology ecology, early village economics, ceramics, ethnoarchaeology; Southeast Asia, U.S. Southwest
*T. P. K. Tengan, PhD—cultural anthropology, indigenous theory and methodology, colonialism, nationalism, identity, gender, cultural politics; Pacific, Hawaiʻi

Cooperating Graduate Faculty

C. Beaule, PhD—Andean/Latin American archaeology, household organization, origins of complexity, Colonialism
D. Brown, PhD—physical anthropology, medical anthropology; Polynesia
W. Chapman, PhD—historic preservation, historical archaeology, history of anthropology
C. Clayton, PhD—cultural anthropology; sovereignty and colonialism; nationalisms and transnationalisms; history, memory and placemaking; China and East Asia
S. Kikiloi, PhD—Hawaiian resource management, indigenous knowledge, traditional society, genealogies, cultural revitalization, and community empowerment
R. Labrador, PhD—cultural anthropology, identity, immigration political economy, globalization and diaspora; Hawaiʻi/Pacific, Philippines, Filipina/American and Asia Pacific America
A. Mawyer, PhD—language and culture, landscapes, spatial cognition, French Polynesia, French nuclear testing
P. Mills, PhD—archaeology, culture contact, lithic analysis, ethnohistory; Polynesia, North Pacific, North America
Y. A. Park, PhD—media, social movements; refugee; South Korea; North Korea
F. A. Reed, PhD—human evolution, population genetics, population structure and adaptation

Affiliate Graduate Faculty

A.R. Antonites, PhD–African archaeology, zooarchaeology, foodways, early complex societies, collections-based research, museum studies
X. Antonites, PhD—Archaeology, African Iron Age, African complex societies and their hinterlands, networks of exchange, craft production
J. S. Athens, PhD—evolutionary and agricultural ecology, origin of agriculture, development of complex societies, tropical paleoenvironmental (Ecuador, Oceania), archaeology of Ecuador, Micronesia, and Hawaiʻi, CRM issues, management and administration
J. D. Baker, PhD—medical anthropology, Hawaiʻi and Pacific diaspora, ethnobiology, ethnopharmacology, transformations of medicine use, nutritional anthropology, program evaluation
C. Berrey, PhD—archaeology, complex societies, social inequality, settlement demography, interaction studies, comparative and multiscalar analysis, quantitative and spatial analysis; Central America, South America, and Mesoamerica
J. E. Byrd, PhD—statistical approaches to forensic evidence; forensic anthropology
C. Chapman, PhD—medical anthropology, medical sociology, caregiving, personhood, institutions, family dynamics, equity, exclusion, biomedicine, mental health, ethics/morality, social welfare, substance use, ethnography, participatory methods, Asia-Pacific
S. Collins, PhD—archaeology, human and faunal osteology, historic preservation compliance and practice; Hawaiʻi and the Pacific
T. Dye, PhD—archaeology; Hawaiʻi and the Pacific
J. Fox, PhD—land use, forest resources and management, GIS and spatial information technology; South Asia, Southeast Asia
P. Fox, PhD—precision medicine, population genetics, Indigenous futurism
P. Heng, PhD—archaeology, pre- and early modern Southeast Asia, Cambodia, political economy, interactions, organization changes, religious changes, settlement patterns, artifact distribution, history
R. Ikehara-Quebral, PhD—skeletal biology and morphometry, intentional cranial and dental modification, health and social status, biocultural adaptation, biodistance and forensic studies
L. Kealhofer, PhD—Southeast Asia and Near East; landscape approaches; paleobotany; land use and environmental change in complex societies; political economy
H. L. McMillen, PhD—medical and environmental anthropology, biocultural approaches, Indigenous and local ecological knowledge systems, community-based natural resource management
J. Moniz Nakamura, PhD–Hawaiʻi and Pacific Islands archaeology, vertebrate taphonomy, historic archaeology and history
A. E. Morrison, PhD—Pacific Island and South American Archaeology, computational modeling, geoarchaeology, remote sensing, geographical information systems, Bayesian chronological modeling, applied zooarchaeology, historic preservation practice, human behavioral ecology
M. Mulrooney, PhD—GIS, Hawaiian archaeology, archaeological research in the Pacific
J. A. Peterson, PhD—archaeology, historical ecology, landscapes, historical archaeology; Hawaiʻi-Pacific, Philippines, American Southwest
G. Pigliasco, PhD—cultural and legal anthropology, visual anthropology, ritual and performance commodification and tourism; Oceania, Fiji
G. Shelach-Lavi, PhD—archaeology, early agriculture, complex societies, household archaeology, settlement patterns, interregional interaction; China, Mongolia
M. Sharma, PhD (Emeritus)—political economy, development, class formation and gender relations, radical feminist theory; India
J. A. Swift, PhD—environmental archaeology, Polynesia, zooarchaeology, biomolecular methods, anthropocene
C. K. Work, PhD—sociocultural anthropology, anthropology of religion, development, and the anthropocene, Southeast Asian state formation, political economies of subsistence animists, interdimensional communication systems and rituals in Southeast Asia and Austronesia, climate change politics

Adjunct Faculty

N. I. Cooper, PhD—socio-cultural anthropology, performance, gender, expressive culture, ritual and religion; Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Java, Singapore
L. Gollin, PhD—medical anthropology, ethnobotany and ethnobiology, local ecological knowledge, cultural resource management, oral histories; Indonesia and Hawaiʻi
J. Jin, PhD— zooarchaeology, vertebrate taphonomy, human skeletal biology, forensic anthropology, paleoanthropology; China, Korea
J. Rensel, PhD—socioeconomic history, housing change, migrant communities; Polynesia
P. J. Ross, MA—quantitative methods, nutritional and medical anthropology, human ecology, medical systems, field methods in cultural anthropology; West Africa

* Graduate Faculty

The Academic Program

Anthropology (ANTH) is the comparative study of human societies, of the origin and evolution of our species, and of the ways of life of ancient and modern people. It is divided into three main subdisciplines: archaeology, cultural anthropology, and biological anthropology. While biological anthropologists focus upon our biological nature, cultural anthropologists deal with ways of life past and present. Anthropological linguists look at language as a part of human behavior, while archaeologists study the remains of past cultures to reconstruct former lifestyles.

Students of anthropology gain a basic understanding of the cultural basis of human society, and of the origin and development of humanity useful both for understanding the human condition and as a preparation for work in many fields, not just in anthropology. For example, the department offers a uniquely broad range of courses on the cultures of Asia and the Pacific, as well as on aspects of American society, that provide students with a fund of cultural knowledge and insights upon which to build a career in law, medicine, public health, teaching, business, and other professions. While some BA graduates in anthropology find employment in anthropology, normally an MA or PhD is required to work as an anthropologist in a university, museum, or other institution. The department has a long-standing graduate program, which trains students in all aspects of anthropology, including applied approaches. The training emphasizes field research and focuses on Asia and the Pacific. In any one year, students are engaged in such projects as excavating an archaeological field site in Punaluʻu or recording oral histories on the North Shore.

Undergraduate Study

Please see “Programs” section below for more information about our undergraduate programs.

Graduate Study

Intended candidates for the MA or PhD need not have an undergraduate background in anthropology. All applicants must submit to the department a writing sample and three letters of recommendation at the time of application. All applicants must also apply to Graduate Admissions. Under certain circumstances, GRE scores may be required. Lack of previous training in anthropology may result, however, in study to fill gaps in knowledge. All incoming students are required to attend the Anthropology Colloquium Series in the first two semesters. Applications for admission will be considered for the fall semester only. The deadline for submission of applications, including international students, is December 1 of every year.

The MA program ensures that graduates grasp fundamentals in their elected subfields, while the PhD program provides an opportunity for further specialization.

Programs

• Anthropology, BA

• Anthropology, Applied Archaeology Track, MA
• Anthropology, Applied Cultural Anthropology Track, MA
• Anthropology, MA

• Anthropology, PhD

• Anthropology, Minor
• Medical Anthropology, Minor

• Anthropology, BA/MA