University of Hawaii Manoa
Department of Ethnic Studies
1859 East-West Road, Room 115
Honolulu, HI 96822
(808) 956-8086, (808) 956-6915
FAX (808) 956-9494
Email:alegado@hawaii.edu
www2.soc.hawaii.edu/css/es/
Director:
Dean Alegado
Faculty:
Ibrahim Aoude, Dean Alegado, Monisha Das Gupta, Carol Fan,
Marion Kelly, Noel Kent, Davianna Pomaikai McGregor, Ulla
Hasager,
Jonathan Okamura, Kathryn Takara, Liana Petranek, William
Puette
General Information:
-Founded in 1970
-Offers a program of research and courses that combines
traditional and contemporary methodologies with new
perspectives on issues of race, ethnicity, and class
-Focus is on Hawai'i, with its rich legacy of multiethnic
heritages, but the research, teaching, and service
components also involve the United States as a
whole and comparative studies of societies around the
globe, particularly in the Pacific
-Undergraduate major through Liberal Studies in which
students devise their own major
-Ethnic Studies major is available
-Certificate program is available (minor in Asian American
Studies)
-Offers an average of 20 courses per semester in Ethnic
Studies
-National Endowment for the Humanities sponsors month-long
workshop for secondary schoolteachers (irregular)
-A resource center is part of the Ethnic Studies complex
-Internships and independent courses routinely offered for
undergraduates
-Summer courses are available
Topics/Courses:
Hawaiians
Chinese in Hawai'i
Filipinos in Hawai'i
Japanese in Hawai'i
Koreans in Hawai'i
Haoles/Caucasians in Hawai'i
Ethnic Identity
Ethnicity and Community in Hawai'i
Ethnic Diversity: Asian Americans
Hawai'i and the Pacific
Immigration to Hawai'i and the United States
Ethnic Literature of Hawai'i
Economic Change and Hawaii's People
Social Movements in Hawai'i
Pacific/Asian Women in Hawai'i
Hawaiian Labor History
Gender and Race in US
Change in the Pacific: Polynesia
Race, Class & the Law
Racism and Ethnicity in Hawai'i
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