Faculty

Japanese Studies Faculty and Specialists at UH Mānoa


 

CHRISTOPHER J. BAE

Professor of Anthropology

PhD in Anthropology, Rutgers University (2005)

cjbae@hawaii.edu

 

 


 

HELEN J. BARONI

Professor of Religion

PhD in Religion, Columbia (1993)

hbaroni@hawaii.edu

 

 


 

LONNY E. CARLILE

Associate Professor of Asian Studies

PhD in Political Science, UC Berkeley (1989)

lonny@hawaii.edu
List of publications

 


 

HARUKO COOK

Professor of Japanese

PhD in Linguistics, USC (1988)

hkcook@hawaii.edu

 

 


 

PETRICE FLOWERS 

Professor* of Political Science

(*effective August 1, 2023)

PhD in Political Science, University of Minnesota (2002)

pflowers@hawaii.edu

 

 


 

SHINICHIRO FUKUDA

Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Linguistics

PhD in Linguistics, University of California San Diego (2009)

fukudash@hawaii.edu

 

 


 

KRISTI GOVELLA

Assistant Professor of Asian Studies

PhD in Political Science, University of California, Berkeley (2016)

kgovella@hawaii.edu

 

 


 

THERESA GREANEY

Professor of Economics

PhD in Economics, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (1994)

greaney@hawaii.edu

 

 


 

ANDRE HAAG

Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature

PhD in Japanese Literature and Culture (2013), Standford University

andreh@hawaii.edu

 


 

ATSUSHI HASEGAWA

Associate Professor of Japanese Linguistics

PhD in Second Language Acquisition (2010), University of Wisconsin-Madison

atsushih@hawaii.edu

 


 

JULIE IEZZI

Professor of Theatre

PhD in Theatre, University of Hawai’i (2000)

iezzi@hawaii.edu

 

 


 

MASATO ISHIDA 

Director of the Center for Okinawan Studies

Associate Professor of Philosophy

PhD in Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University (2009)

masatoi@hawaii.edu

 


 

DAVID T. JOHNSON

Professor of Sociology and Adjunct Professor of Law

PhD in Jurisprudence and Social Policy, Boalt Hall School of Law, Berkeley (1996)

davidjoh@hawaii.edu

 


 

KAZUE KANNO

Associate Professor of Japanese

PhD in Linguistics, University of Hawai’i (1992)

kanno@hawaii.edu

 

 


 

AYA KIMURA

Professor of Sociology

PhD in Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2006)

kimuraa@hawaii.edu

 

 


 

KIMI KONDO-BROWN

Professor of Japanese, Associate Dean of Languages, Linguistics & Literature

EdD in Education, University of Hawai’i (1998)

kondo@hawaii.edu

 


 

HANAE KRAMER

Associate Professor of Communication

PhD in Communication and Information Sciences, University of Hawai’i (2010)

hanae@hawaii.edu

 


 

MARK ALAN LEVIN

Director of the Center for Japanese Studies
Professor of Law

JD, Yale Law School (1983)

levin@hawaii.edu

 


 

MARK T. MCNALLY

Professor of History

PhD in History, UCLA (1998)

mcnally@hawaii.edu

 

 


 

MICHEL MOHR

Professor of Religion

PhD in Buddhist Studies, University of Geneva, Switzerland (1992)

E-mail available via the UH Directory

 

 


MITSUTAKA NAKAMURA

Japan Studies Librarian

MLIS, Library and Information Science (2019)

mitsutak@hawaii.edu

 

 

 


 

STEVE ODIN

Professor of Philosophy

PhD in Philosophy, State University of New York (1980)

steveo@hawaii.edu

 

 


 

KEIKO OKUHARA

Law Librarian

MA in Library Information Science, North Carolina Central University

keikooku@hawaii.edu

 


 

GAY MICHIKO SATSUMA

Associate Director of the Center for Japanese Studies

PhD in Japanese History, University of Hawai’i (1998)

gay@hawaii.edu

 

 


 

NANCY KINUE STALKER

Professor & Sen Soshitsu Distinguished Chair

PhD in History, Standford University (2002)

nancy.stalker@hawaii.edu

 

 


 

JOHN SZOSTAK

Associate Professor of Art History

PhD in Art History, University of Washington (2005)

szostak@hawaii.edu

 

 


 

PIER CARLO TOMMASI

Assistant Professor, EALL

PhD Ca’ Foscari U of Venice, 2019

tommasi@hawaii.edu

 

 


 

YUMA TOTANI

Professor of History

PhD in History, UC Berkeley (2005)

yuma.totani@hawaii.edu

 

 


 

DONALD WOMACK

Professor of Music

PhD in Music Composition, Northwestern University

dwomack@hawaii.edu

 

 


 

DINA R. YOSHIMI

Associate Professor of Japanese

PhD in Linguistics (Applied), USC (1993)

dinar@hawaii.edu

 

 


MARI YOSHIHARA

Professor of American Studies

PhD in American Studies, Brown University (1997)

myoshiha@hawaii.edu