Political Science News and Events
Noenoe Silva
Congratulations to Associate Professor Noenoe Silva, who was awarded the Baldridge Prize for best book in history by a resident of Hawaii in 2003-2004. She won this award for her book, Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism. This book is published by Duke University Press. This prize is given out every two years.
Petrice Flowers
Congratulations to Assistant Petrice Flowers, who was awarded the Fulbright Fellowship for her project, "Expanding Protection: Increasing Coordination of Refugee and Anti-Trafficking Policies in Japan and Korea." The Fulbright is a nine-month research grand to conduct fieldwork in Japan. Her project is a comparative study that addresses three questions that will situate Japanese and Korean NGOs working on refugee issues and those focused on trafficking issues within a broader transnational context, analyze how the normative framework of international law impacts implementation into domestic policy and explicate the impact of increasingly dense transnational relations in Asia on possibilities for regional coordination to deal with forced migration and other pressing issues.
Jungmin Seo
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Jumgmin Seo, who was awarded the University Research Council, Research Relations Funds Award in the amount of $4,986.40. This award is for his project, "Politics of History and Memory in China: Dilemmas in the debate over 'the historical ownership of Koguryo'" and "Comparative Studies of Media and Official Reactions to Politicized HIstories in Japan, China, and Korea." He also received the Japan Studies Endowment Committee, Faculty Special Award for "Comparative Studies of Media and Officail Reactions to Politicized Histories in Japan, China, and Korea."
James white
James White, who got his PhD with us in 2003, recently was named Associate Director, International Programs, and Senior Research Scientist at Georgia Tech. His current research projects include a comparative study of the outsourcing of municipal services in the U.S., with a focus on questions of citizen satisfaction and government accountability; a collaboration with the Department of Mass Communications at the American University of Sharjah in developing a research program for the Arabic-speaking world, looking at global communications, communications public policy, and the intersect between computation and media; and an ongoing attempt to build a comparative analysis of the impact of global information flows in China and the Middle East-all in the context of what he calls his "ongoing obsessions with civil society, globalization, and futures research."
sydney iaukea
Recently, Sydney Iaukea, Political Science PhD candidate, was the recipient of the Mellon-Hawaii Postdoctoral Fellowship for the 2008-2009 academic year. This award comes in the amount of $50,000. Assistant Professor Hokulani Aikau will serve as Sydney's Fellowship Mentor.
Joseph Iokepa salazar
Iokepa Salazar received the Ford Foundation 3-year pre-dissertation fellowship.
Bianca Isaki
Bianca Isaki has been awarded the Asian American Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship for the 2008-2009 academic year. This award was granted to her by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This prestigious research award includes $42,000 plus an additional $5,000 in research/travel monies. Along with this award, on May 7, 2008, Bianca successfully defended her dissertation.
Keanu Sai, Kuhio Vogeler, Sydney Iaukea, Malia Kaaihue, Kalawaia Moore
Keanu Sai, Kuhio Vogeler, Sydney Iaukea, Malia Kaaihue and Kalawaia Moore were all awarded the Oiwi Akamai Fellowship.
Melisa casumbal
Melisa Casumbal was recently awarded the Graduate Division Award for Excellence as a Teaching Assistant. In addition to this award, Melisa has been awarded the Dai Ho Chun Award from Graduate Division for conference travel to the Cordillera, Philippines. She also received the Nobumoto Tanahashi Scholarship from the Matsunaga Peace Institute for dissertation fieldwork in the Cordillera, Philippines for the academic year 2008-2009.
Ponipate Rokolekutu
Ponipate Rokolekutu is the Spring 2008 recipient the Harry Friedman Memorial Award.