Department of History Faculty
Peter Arnade
Dean, College of Arts, Languages and Letters
Late-Medieval and Early-Modern Europe; political, cultural and social; comparative history
Office: Hawaiʻi Hall 314 | Phone: (808) 956-6460
Email: parnade@hawaii.edu
Ned Bertz
Associate Professor
South Asia, Africa, Indian Ocean, World History
Office: Sakamaki B409 (On Sabbatical, 2024–2025) | Phone: (808) 956-6766
Email: bertz@hawaii.edu
Shana J. Brown
Associate Professor & Director, Honors Program
China (Twentieth-Century, Intellectual and Cultural)
Office: Sakamaki B404 | Phone: (808) 956-7151
Email: shanab@hawaii.edu
Marcus Daniel
Associate Professor
Revolutionary and Early National America; Atlantic World; African American History
Office: Sakamaki B209 | Phone: (808) 956-6770
Email: marcusd@hawaii.edu
Edward L. Davis
Associate Professor
China (Middle Period)
Office: Sakamaki B212 | Phone: (808) 956-7708
Email: edavis@hawaii.edu
Noah H. Dolim
Assistant Professor
Hawaiian Islands, Native Hawaiians, 19th Century Hawai‘i, U.S. Social and Cultural
Office: Sakamaki B203 | Phone: (808) 956-7404
Email: ndolim@hawaii.edu
Joseph D. Foukona
Assistant Professor
South Pacific, Melanesia, Pacific Legal Systems and History, Postcolonial and Critical Legal Theory, Climate Change and Displacement
Office: Sakamaki A408 | Phone: (808) 956-8631
Email: foukona@hawaii.edu
Karen L. Jolly
Professor & Undergraduate Coordinator
Pre-modern Europe, early medieval Britain, religion and culture, manuscript studies, Global, Transnational, & World History
Office: Sakamaki A415 | Phone: (808) 956-7673
Email: kjolly@hawaii.edu
Cheehyung Harrison Kim
Associate Professor
East Asia, Korea, North Korea, socialism, labor, industrialism, everyday life, urban life, transnationality, visuality
Office: Sakamaki Hall B403 | Phone: (808) 956-6761 | Email: chk7@hawaii.edu
Monica C. LaBriola
Assistant Professor
Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Pacific Islands, Ethnographic History, Women in Oceania
Office: Sakamaki B417 | Phone: (808) 956-7675
Email: labriola@hawaii.edu
Vina A. Lanzona
Associate Professor
Southeast Asia, Philippines, Women and Gender, Colonialism
Office: Sakamaki B208 | Phone: (808) 956-6769
Email: vlanzona@hawaii.edu
Matthew Lauzon
Associate Professor
European Intellectual History, Early Modern Europe, Historiography
Office: Sakamaki B401 | Phone: (808) 956-8541
Email: mlauzon@hawaii.edu
Fabio López Lázaro
Associate Professor
Director, Center for Research in World History
Global, Transnational, & World History; Medieval & Early Modern Maritime History; Piracy, Privateering, Capitalism & Imperialism; Transnational & Transoceanic European History; Colonial Latin America & Atlantic History; Mediterranean History
Office: Sakamaki A408 | Phone: (808) 956-7149 | Email: fll@hawaii.edu
Kieko Matteson
Associate Professor & Department Chair
Environmental History, France, Europe
Office: Sakamaki A412 | Phone: (808) 956-6757
Email: kieko.matteson@hawaii.edu
Mark McNally
Professor & Director, Center for Okinawan Studies
Japan
Office: Sakamaki B201 | Phone: (808) 956-6759
Email: mmcnally@hawaii.edu
Njoroge Njoroge
Associate Professor
US, Caribbean & African Diaspora, Race and Critical Theory
Office: Sakamaki A413 | Phone: (808) 956-5376
Email: njoroge@hawaii.edu
Suzanna Reiss
Associate Professor, Graduate Chair & Associate Department Chair
U.S. Foreign Relations, Imperialism, Capitalism, World History
Office: Sakamaki B207 | Phone: (808) 956-6768
Email: sreiss@hawaii.edu
John P. Rosa
Associate Professor
Hawaiʻi, Pacific Islands, U.S. Social and Cultural
Office: Sakamaki B405 | Phone: (808) 956-8098
Email: rosajohn@hawaii.edu
Nancy K. Stalker
Professor & Sen Sōshitsu Distinguished Chair
Japan (20th century, Cultural and Gender)
Office: Sakamaki B407 (On Sabbatical, Fall 2024) | Phone: (808) 956-7299
Email: nancy.stalker@hawaii.edu
Yuma Totani
Professor
Modern Japan
Office: Sakamaki A406 | Phone: (808) 956-8564
Email: yuma.totani@hawaii.edu
Wensheng Wang
Associate Professor
Ming-Qing China, World History
Office: Sakamaki B204 | Phone: (808) 956-4233
Email: wensheng@hawaii.edu
Frank Zelko
Associate Professor
Environmental History, Global, Transnational, & World History
Office: Sakamaki A409 | Phone: (808) 956-6771
Email: fzelko@hawaii.edu
