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Alice Dewey
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
Saunders 309
Educational Background
B.A. (1950)
M.A. (1955)
and Ph.D. (1959) from Radcliffe College, Harvard University
Research / Teaching / Specializations
Economic anthropology, especially markets, social structure, peasant societies, social change, kinship, Javanese culture.
Patricia Donegan
Associate Professor of Linguistics
Moore 576
Research / Teaching / Specializations
natural phonology, phonetics, variation and change, dialectology, first- and second-language acquisition, holistic typology, Munda and Austroasiatic
C. Michael Douglass
Professor of Urban and Regional Planning
Social Sciences Bldg 107C
Educational Background
B.A. (cum laude), University of California at Los Angeles, 1967
M.A., University of Hawaii, 1968
Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles, 1982
Research / Teaching / Specializations
Asian cities: globalization and urban policy, urban environmental management and rural-urban linkages, and environmental management and relationships between culture and power with emphasis on Thailand, Indonesia, and Singapore
Patti Dunn
Graduate Advisor for Asian Studies & Freeman Project Coordinator
Moore 416A
Educational Background
B.A., Asian Studies, Literature and History, University of Hawaii
William Feltz
Coordinator, Arts Program of the East West Center
Burns Hall
Educational Background
M.A., Ethnomusicology, University of Hawaii
Michael Forman
Professor of Linguistics
Moore 558
Educational Background
B.A. Latin and English, John Carroll University, 1961
Ph.D., General Linguistics, Cornell University, 1972
Research / Teaching / Specializations
The place of language in social life, and what it means to the community that linguistics is done here, untamed languages (“Taglish”, “Pidgin” (i.e, Hawaii Creole English), Zamboangueno, etc.), the various Englishes of the world (but especially Philippines and Hawai’i), codeswitching and mixing, language and the law, Philippine Studies, Southeast Asian studies, ethnopoetics, field work, ethnographic linguistics, general linguistics
Jefferson Fox
Coordinator, Environmental Studies & Senior Fellow, East West Center
Office Location
Educational Background
Ph.D., Development Studies, University of Wisconsin, 1983
Research / Teaching / Specializations
Land cover/land-use change, forest fragmentation and degradation, spatial information technologies, local peoples and systems for managing forest resources in South and Southeast Asia
Imelda Gasmen
Instructor, Filipino and Philippine Literature
Spalding 452
Educational Background
M.A., Communications, University of Hawaii
Jon Goss
Professor of Geography
Saunders 438/Sinclair 103
Educational Background
B.A., Geography, Oxford University, England, 1982
M.A., Geography, Oxford University, England, 1985
Ph.D., Geography, University of Kentucky, 1990
Research / Teaching / Specializations
Urban geography, landscapes of popular culture and tourism, social theory, Southeast Asia
Mary Hammond
Dean of the Education Program, East-West Center
Burns Hall
Eric Harwit
Associate Professor of Asian Studies
Moore 410
Educational Background
B.A., Cornell University, 1984
M.A., University of California, Berkeley 1985
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley 1992
Research / Teaching / Specializations
Asian political economy, development of stock exchanges in Malaysia and Indonesia, telecommunications progress in China
Carl Hefner
Associate Professor & Chair of Anthropology
Kalia 101 – Kapiolani Community College
Educational Background
B.A. Anthropology, University of Hawaii
Graduate, Anthropology Film Center, Santa Fe, NM
M.A., Anthropology, University of Hawaii
Ph.D., (with distinction) University of Hawaii
East-West Center, Communications Institute
Aya Hirata-Kimura
Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies
Saunders 721G
Educational Background
B.A., Sophia University, International Legal Studies
M.A., Yale University, Environmental Studies
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, Sociology
Yuphaphann Hoonchamlong
Assistant Professor of Thai
Spalding 465
Educational Background
B.A. (first class honors) Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand 1979
M.A., Linguistics, University of Hawaii, 1981
Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Wisconsin, 1991
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