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Kauanui, J. Kehaulani


Associate Professor of American Studies
American Studies Program
860.685.3768
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Associate Professor of Anthropology
Anthropology Department
860.685.3768
Center for the Americas 211

BA University of California, Berkeley
PHD University of California, Santa Cruz
EMAIL:
jkauanui@wesleyan.edu
PERSONAL HOME PAGE:
http://jkauanui.faculty.wesleyan.edu/
WESLEYAN PO BOX:
 Anthropology Department
COURSES TAUGHT THIS SEMESTER:
AMST217 - 01
ANTH322 - 01
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Her first book, Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity is newly released from Duke University Press.

Kauanui is the producer and host of a weekly public affairs radio program, "Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond," which airs each Tuesday from 4-5pm on WESU, Middletown, CT. The program archives can be accessed at: www.indigenouspolitics.com.

She is currently embarking on two new book projects. One is, Decolonizing Interventions: Essays on Gender Politics and Hawaiian Nationalism, and the other is titled, Hawaiian New England: The Grammar of American Colonialism.

Kauanui sits on the following editorial boards: American Indian Quarterly; Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism; Hulili: Multidisciplinary Research on Hawaiian Well-Being; Journal of Pacific History; and Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
Her research areas include: Native Hawaiian sovereignty; comparative indigeneity; settler colonialism; US colonialism in the Pacific; critical race theory; nationalism and the politics of gender & sexuality; and decolonization & nation-building.

Kauanui has co-edited three special issues of the following journals:
"Migrating Feminisms" Women's Studies International Forum (1998); "Native Pacific Cultural Studies on the Edge," The Contemporary Pacific (2001); and "Women Writing Oceania: Weaving the Sails of the Waka," Pacific Studies (2007).

Her scholarship appears in the following journals: Social Text, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, American Studies, Comparative American Studies, The Hawaiian Journal of History, Mississippi Review, Amerasia Journal, Women's Studies International Forum, American Indian Quarterly, American Quarterly, and SAQ - South Atlantic Quarterly.

ACADEMIC ASSOCIATIONS:
Kauanui was the 2008 President of the New England American Studies
Association.

She is also co-founder of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association:
http://www.wesleyan.edu/newsletter/campus/2008/0608indigenous.html

In May 2009, she was elected to the first Council of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association for a 3-year term.
AWARDS WON:
Ford Postdoctoral Fellow (2003-2004, declined); Ford Minority Pre-doctoral Fellowship (1996-1997, declined); School of American Research Resident Scholar Fellowship, Katrin H. Lamon Fellowship, (2003-2004); Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Career Enhancement Fellowship (2003-2004); Smithsonian Pre-doctoral Research Fellowship, National Museum of American History (1998-99); Rockefeller Archives Center Research Grant (1998); Smithsonian Graduate Research Fellowship, National Museum of American History (1997); National Science Foundation Minority Pre-doctoral Fellowship (1996);
Fulbright Grant, New Zealand (1994, and extension fellowship for 6 months in 1995).