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Fields of Interest

Assistant Professor Hokulani Aikau

• Indigenous Politics; contemporary Native Hawaiian Politics; Feminist theory; Race, ethnicity, and religion; qualitative research methods

Professor Richard Chadwick

• International Relations
  • Leadership; international trade and integration; global governance; global modeling; East Asia; and research methodology; religion and politics

Professor James Dator

• Political futures studies (especially the forecasting and design of new political institutions, and the futures of law, education, and technology)
• Space and society, especially the design of governance systems for space settlements
• The political–economic futures of North America, the Pacific Islands region, and East Asia, especially Japan and Korea
• Media production and the politics of media — media production and their effects on political and other human relations and consciousness

Professor Kathy Ferguson

• Political theory with an emphasis on critical theory, feminist theory, and critiques of militarism

Associate Professor Petrice Flowers

Associate Professor Jonathan Goldberg–Hiller

• Sociolegal (Law and Society); Social, Political and Legal Theory; Politics of Sexuality

Assistant Professor J. Noelani Goodyear–Ka'ōpua

• Indigenous Politics with a focus on social movements, sovereignty, self–determination, education and sustainable futures
• Hawai'i Politics with a focus on contemporary Native Hawaiian issues, and the politics of food, land and water in Hawai'i
• Politics of schooling, particularly as forms of sustaining or resisting empire
• Indigenous and community–based participatory research methods

Associate Professor Jarius Grove

Associate Professor Debora Halbert

• Policy and political economy implications of intellectual property issues with a specific emphasis on copyright law. Future research includes work on the relationship between intellectual property, creativity and innovation policy.

Professor Manfred Henningsen

Assistant Professor Katharina Heyer

• Sociolegal studies with an emphasis in disability rights movements
• Social movement studies
• Comparative legal studies
• Disability studies
• Equality and the law
• Civil rights
• International human rights

Professor George Kent (Retired)

• International relations with a focus on food, children, and human rights

Assistant Professor Ehito Kimura

• Global/comparative politics; Southeast Asian Politics

Professor Sankaran Krishna

• Comparative Politics with a focus on Political Economy, Development Studies, and South Asian Politics
• International Relations with a focus on critical theory, postcolonial studies, and globalization

Professor Charles Lawrence III

Associate Professor Colin Moore

 

Professor Neal Milner (Retired)

Professor Lawrence Nitz

• State Government
• Legislative Process
• Public Theory
  • Long term care financing
  • Elder issues in transportation
  • Risk and insurance
• Research methods

Associate Professor Jungmin Seo

Professor Michael Shapiro

Associate Professor Noenoe Silva

• Hawaiian political theory
• Native Hawaiian politics
• Indigenous politics
• Hawaiian political thought in Hawaiian

Professor Nevzat Soguk

• Major fields: Global politics and International Relations
• Minor fields: Political theory, comparative politics, indigenous politics

Associate Professor James Spencer

• International development
• Urban politics
• Public Policy

Professor Manfred Steger

Associate Professor Carolyn Stephenson

Associate Professor John Wilson (Retired)

• Western Political Philosophy (especially, Classical Greek & Roman Political Philosophy, Early Modern Political Philosophy)
• Non–Western Political Philosophy
• State Theory
• Authority/Governance
• American Constitutional and Presidential Politics

Professor Kate Zhou

• Comparative politics with emphasis on Chinese politics, political economy of East Asia, and development politics

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