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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]

Some of her essays are published in the following books:

Ethnographies of U.S. Empire, Eds. Carole McGranahan and John Collins (forthcoming 2018, Duke University Press); Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Ed. Joanne Barker (Duke University Press, 2017);  Formations of United States Colonialism,  Ed. Alyosha Goldstein (Duke University Press 2014); A Nation Rising: Hawaiian Movements for Life, Land, and Sovereignty, Eds. Noelani Goodyear-Ka’opua, Ikaika Hussey, Erin Kahunawaika′ala Wright (Duke University Press 2014); Recognition, Sovereignty Struggles, and Indigenous Rights in the United States: A Sourcebook, Eds. Amy Den Ouden and Jean M. O’Brien (University of North Carolina Press 2013); Decolonizing Native Histories, Ed. Florencia E. Mallon (Duke University Press 2011); Beyond the Frame: Women of Color and Visual Representation, Eds. Neferti Tadiar, and Angela Y. Davis (Palgrave Macmillan 2005); and Asian American Studies After Critical Mass, Ed. Kent Ono (Wiley-Blackwell 2005).[5]

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.[6]

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[7]

She specializes in Critical race and whiteness studies, Feminist critique, and Sovereignty and decolonization.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Wesleyan University" (PDF). www.isrn.qut.edu.au. Retrieved 2018-12-05T03:35:22Z. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  2. ^ "Wesleyan University" (PDF). www.isrn.qut.edu.au. Retrieved 2018-12-05. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  3. ^ "5 Questions with . . . J. Kēhaulani Kauanui". News @ Wesleyan. Retrieved 2018-12-05.
  4. ^ "Wesleyan University" (PDF). www.isrn.qut.edu.au. Retrieved 2018-12-04. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  5. ^ "J. Kēhaulani Kauanui". jkauanui.faculty.wesleyan.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-05.
  6. ^ "J. Kēhaulani Kauanui". jkauanui.faculty.wesleyan.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-05.
  7. ^ "Wesleyan University" (PDF). www.isrn.qut.edu.au. Retrieved 2018-12-05. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  8. ^ "J. Kēhaulani Kauanui". jkauanui.faculty.wesleyan.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-04.