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Dr. Anna Stirr is the recipient of a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship and a Council of American Overseas Research Centers NEH Senior Fellowship for research in Nepal during her sabbatical year of 2018-2019. Her research project, “Performing Aspirations: Love and…
Dr. Kristi Govella, Assistant Professor in the Asian Studies Program, recently commented in The New York Times and USA Today about Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s political challenges at home and abroad. Domestically, Abe is facing the fallout of a…
National Taiwan University is pleased to share summer 2018 NTU Plus Academy Summer+ Programs info with UH Manoa students. If you have any queries about the NTU Plus Academy Summer+ Programs, please do not hesitate to contact them by email…
Assistant Professor of Asian Studies Kristi Govella commented in two news articles this weekend on the impact of the Trump administration’s recent announcements about tariffs and North Korea: The New York Times, “Trump’s Unpredictability on Trade and North Korea Opens…
On Saturday, March 3, the Pacific and Asian Affairs Council brought together 189 students from 27 high schools on 5 islands for their Global Vision Summit on Climate Change hosted at UH West Oahu. Dr. Kristi Govella, Assistant Professor in…
Dr. Kristi Govella was recently interviewed in The New York Times about Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono. Since Kono was appointed in August 2017, there has been much speculation about his potential as a future leader of the Liberal Democratic Party and…
The Asian Studies Program welcomes applications for Fall Semester 2018! Please note that our admissions deadline is February 1. Applications received after the deadline cannot be considered for scholarship funding, so please make sure all of your application materials have…
Asian Studies at Graduate Fair The Asian Studies Program (ASP) will be part of the “What’s Next at Manoa?” graduate fair, hosted by the Associated Students of the University of Hawaii (ASUH). The goal of the event is to introduce undergraduate…
Dr. Stirr’s Book Dr. Anna Stirr’s book, Singing Across Divides: Music and Intimate Politics in Nepal, was recently released from Oxford University Press. An ethnographic study of music, performance, migration, and circulation, Singing Across Divides examines how forms of love…
Adjunct Faculty Debito Arudou’s book “Embedded Racism: Japan’s Visible Minorities and Racial Discrimination” (Lexington Books / Rowman & Littlefield 2015) was recently reviewed by the Social Science Japan Journal (SSJJ). The reviewer concluded: “In an anti-globalist era of Trump…