J. Kēhaulani Kauanui
J. Kēhaulani Kauanui
Early Life
J. Kēhaulani Kauanui (born July 17th, 1968) is Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) woman born and raised in California with ties to family on the island of Kaua`i and throughout the islands. She is an author, editor, producer, educator, serves on advisory boards and has acted as a council member on the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (N.A.I.S.A.)..[1]
Education
After attending Irvine Valley College (community college) in 1989, she earned her B.A. in Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley in 1992. Kauanui earned her Ph.D. in History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2000.
Professional Work
She is a current Associate Professor of American Studies and Anthropology at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, USA. In 2018 she released Speaking of Indigenous Politics: Conversations with Activists, Scholars, and Tribal Leaders. She also serves on an advisory board for the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. In the years of 2005 to 2008 she was included in a six-person steering committee that found the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (N.A.I.S.A.).[2]
Kauanui produces and hosts a public affairs radio program called “Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond” and is active in the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association[3]
Published Work
Kauanui has been published in many different journals in areas of her expertise such as:
South Atlantic Quarterly, American Studies, Comparative American Studies, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, American Indian Quarterly, Amerasia Journal, Mississippi Review, The Contemporary Pacific, The Hawaiian Journal of History, `Oiwi: Native Hawaiian Journal, Women’s Studies International Forum, and Social Text. Some of her key publications include “Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity” (Duke University Press, 2008) and “Women Writing Oceania: Weaving the Sails of the Waka,” special issue of Pacific Studies (2007), co-edited with Caroline Sinavaiana.[4]
J. Kēhaulani Kauanui also 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.[5]
Her two key publications are Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity (Duke University Press, 2008) and “Women Writing Oceania: Weaving the Sails of the Waka,” special issue of Pacific Studies (2007), co-edited with Caroline Sinavaiana[6]
She specializes in Critical race and whiteness studies, Feminist critique, and Sovereignty and decolonization.[7]
References
- ^ "Wesleyan University" (PDF). www.isrn.qut.edu.au. Retrieved 2018-12-05T03:35:22Z.
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- ^ "Wesleyan University" (PDF). www.isrn.qut.edu.au. Retrieved 2018-12-04.
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- ^ "Wesleyan University" (PDF). www.isrn.qut.edu.au. Retrieved 2018-12-05.
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