PEOPLE
The Department
The UH Department of American Studies was originally established as a research program in U.S.-Asian relations at the East-West Center and later became a department during the mid-1960s. Since then it has awarded more than 1,000 BA and MA degrees and more than 150 PhDs along with scores of Graduate Certificates in Historic Preservation and Museum Studies.
The graduates of our programs include both Americans and international students. Many of our international students now hold prestigious academic, corporate, or government jobs in their home countries. Other alumni are professional or political leaders (including the current Governor of the State of Hawai‘i), or are professors or administrators at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
CORE FACULTY
The Department’s core faculty have published and lectured on both American and non-American topics or indigenous cultures and societies. Their writings have been translated into (or originally written in) twelve different languages. In addition, they have taught or lectured in most of those places.
The interdisciplinary scholarship of the UH American Studies faculty has resulted in their serving on doctoral committees in 19 different departments throughout the university, while the quality of that scholarship has been acknowledged with Guggenheim, Rockefeller, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, Soros/Open Society, Social Science Research Council, Ford, Radcliffe, and numerous Fulbright and other fellowships. American Studies faculty members have received the highest undergraduate teaching and graduate mentorship awards given by the university. Many are also involved in community affairs, legislative efforts, and/or other forms of community engagement, including concerns with homelessness; food insecurity; LGBTQ issues; racial and gender justice; and the protection of Hawaiian culture, lands, and waters.
COOPERATING GRADUATE FACULTY
STAFF
Contact information
Moore Hall 324
amstuh@hawaii.edu
amstgrad@hawaii.edu
(808) 956-8570
Many of our graduates now hold prestigious academic, corporate, or government jobs in their home countries.
CURRENT GRADUATE STUDENTS
In addition to many students from Hawai‘i and the continental United States, others from Sweden, Germany, Canada, Ireland, Switzerland, Brazil, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Japan, India, China, Korea, Taiwan, Samoa, Guam, Okinawa, the Philippines, and elsewhere have graduated from our various programs.
ALUMNI
Many of our graduates now hold prestigious academic, corporate, or government jobs in their home countries. Other alumni are professional or political leaders (including the current Governor of the State of Hawai‘i), or are professors or administrators at colleges and universities throughout the United States.