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The Kohala Center receives $500,000 to continue doctoral and postdoctoral fellowship program
January 16, 2014
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently awarded $500,000 for the Mellon-Hawai‘i Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowship Program to support three additional cohorts of doctoral and postdoctoral fellows for the next three years. The program was established at The Kohala Center in 2008 for Native Hawaiian scholars early in their academic careers and others who are committed to the advancement of knowledge about the Hawaiian natural and cultural environment, Hawaiian history, politics, and society.
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College of Education Doctoral Students are Named Mellon-Hawaiʻi Fellows
September 16, 2013
Eomailani K. Kukahiko and Kaiwipuni K. Lipe, doctoral students in the College of Education (COE) at UH Mānoa, were named doctoral fellows by the Mellon-Hawai‘i Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. Designed for Native Hawaiian scholars who are committed to the advancement of knowledge about the Hawaiian natural and cultural environment, history, politics, and society, the program enables fellows to complete their dissertations over the course of one year.
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Kekuewa Kikiloi’s Doctoral Defense
November 15, 2012
Through his Doctoral Defense, Kekuewa Kikiloi explains the reason why Native Hawaiians build temples in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Combining ethno-history (or oral traditions) with archaeology as an integrated method, he paves a new way for method and research for modern Hawaiʻi scholars. Last month, Kekuewa Kikiloi defended his doctoral research on this intriguing topic.
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Maui scholar earns fellowship for Hawaiian cultural advancement
August 8, 2012
KAMUELA, Hawai‘i - Kula resident Katrina-Ann R. Kapa‘anaokalaokeola Oliveira is one of three Native Hawaiian scholars who were recently awarded a Mellon-Hawai'i Fellowship to advance their academic careers. Oliveira, who holds doctorate and master degrees in geography and a bachelor's degree in Hawaiian language and Hawaiian studies, all from University of Hawaii at Manoa, received a $50,000 post-doctoral fellowship.
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Native Hawaiian scholars awarded Mellon-Hawaii fellowships
August 1, 2012
Three Native Hawaiian scholars were recently awarded Mellon-Hawaii Fellowships to advance their academic careers. Marie Alohalani Brown, doctoral candidate in English at University of Hawaii at Manoa (UH Manoa), and Kaipo Perez III, doctoral candidate in zoology with a focus in marine ecology at UH Manoa, received doctoral fellowships. Katrina-Ann R. Kapaanaokalāokeola Oliveira, Ph.D., Geography (2006), UH Manoa, received a postdoctoral fellowship.
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Kahakuloa Scholar Awarded Mellon-Hawai‘i Fellowship
July 31, 2012
Maui resident Katrina-Ann R. Kapā‘anaokalāokeola Oliveira, PhD, is one of three native Hawaiian scholars who were recently awarded Mellon-Hawai‘i Fellowships to advance their academic careers. Oliveira holds a PhD and MA in Geography and BA degrees in Hawaiian Language and Hawaiian Studies, all from UH Mānoa. Her hometown is Kahakuloa; Oliveira now lives in Waiohuli, Kula.
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Marae hosts Hawaiian scholar's lu'au
April 19, 2012
A Hamilton city marae is hosting a lu'au or Hawaiian feast to celebrate the graduation of a Waikato University PhD student. The lu'au at Kirikiriroa Marae is for Keao NeSmith, a native of Kauai, who is back in Hamilton to receive a doctorate for his work on the revitalisation of the Hawaiian language. Mr NeSmith teaches the Hawaiian language at the University of Hawai'i and has taken time off to come back for his graduation. "It's the middle of our semester so I had to get substitutes to cover for me while I'm here graduating and partying."
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Marae graduation for top Hawaiian scholar
April 11, 2012
Hawaiian PhD student Keao NeSmith is graduating next week at the University of Waikato marae. He will be joined by nearly a dozen members of his family, coming to New Zealand to share in Keao’s success. Keao completed his doctorate in applied linguistics at the School of Maori and Pacific Development with his research focussing on how the Hawaiian language is being conveyed to a new generation of Hawaiian speakers.
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Mellon-Hawaii Fellows Present Their Work
November 21, 2011
Four Native Hawaiian scholars are on their way to completing a prestigious fellowship. Hawaii Island's Kohala Center administers the program supporting a special kind of scholarship. HPR's Sherry Bracken tells us more from Kona.
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Truth Seeker
November 2, 2011
by Mindy Pennybacker
Cross-cutting between territorial and contemporary Hawaii, Sydney Lehua Iaukea’s brilliant memoir/ historical expose provides a gripping and revelatory read, endowed with all the trappings of romance, melodrama and ghost story. There’s a mysterious old family portrait, two young heiresses robbed of their birthright growing up in poverty, and Iaukea’s discovery of uncovered chapters in Hawaiian history, in the long-forgotten papers of her great-great-grandfather, Curtis P. Iaukea, that her book brings to light. As the author plunges into her research, shades of the past–her ancestor and Queen Liliuokalani–come to dominate her own life in scenes worthy of Julie and Julia, Rebecca, or Great Expectations.
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Peace of the Rainbow Radio Show
October 3, 2011
Mellon-Hawai‘i fellow Kekuewa Kikiloi, doctoral candidate in Anthropology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UH Manoa), and Matt Hamabata, Executive Director of The Kohala Center, were interviewed live by Sonia Fabrigas, producer/host of Peace of the Rainbow, on Monday, October 3. The interview was broadcast statewide on OC16 TV, Morning Drive on AM 1080 Radio. During the hour-long interview, Kikiloi described his doctoral research in Papahānaumokuākea (Northwestern Hawaiian Islands) Marine National Monument—rugged, windy, arid islands whose biological and cultural significance has earned them distinction as a world heritage site.
Kamehameha Schools names three finalists for top job
September 19, 2011
Kamehameha Schools has narrowed down the search for a new head of school for the Kapalama campus to three finalists, officials announced in a news release today. They are: Lee Ann DeLima, currently the headmaster of Kamehameha Schools Maui campus. J. Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua, a professor of political science at UH-Manoa. Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua has helped to build UH's indigenous politics program. She received a doctoral degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Kamehameha Schools names headmaster finalists
September 19, 2011
Kamehameha Schools on Monday named three finalists for headmaster of its Kapalama Campus. The Honolulu private school is searching for a successor for Michael Chun, who said in May that he would step down in July 2012. The finalists are: Lee Ann DeLima, headmaster of Kamehameha Schools’ Maui Campus; J. Noelani Goodyear-Kapua [sic], a political science professor at the University of Hawaii Manoa and Earl T. Kim, superintendent of the Montgomery School District in New Jersey.
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From Punana Leo o Hilo to Oxford
August 13, 2011
By Peter Sur
For anybody who has questioned the value of a Hawaiian immersion education, consider the case of 'Oiwi Parker Jones. As members of Protect Kaho'olawe Ohana, his activist parents met in a courtroom following a protest. Raised by his mother in Hilo, he entered the first class of Punana Leo o Hilo in 1985, and stayed with the program until he was 15. Now 30, Parker Jones is a junior faculty member at England's University of Oxford, where he earned his PhD., and he was recently granted a prestigious $50,000 Mellon-Hawaii postdoctoral fellowship in linguistics.
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UH Hilo’s Kimura awarded Mellon-Hawai‘i fellowship
KAMUELA, Hawai‘i—July 27, 2011— University of Hawai‘i at Hilo (UH Hilo) assistant professor Larry Kimura has been selected as a 2011–2012 Mellon-Hawai‘i Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellow. Kimura is one of four scholars receiving the fellowships in recognition of their commitment to the advancement of scholarship on Hawaiian cultural and natural environments, Hawaiian language, history, politics, and society.
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Kauanoe Kamana: The school principal champions Hawaiian immersion education
January 28, 2011
Punana Leo means "nest of voices," and at its start, the infants-to-preschool education program conducted all in Hawaiian was seen as that kind of a haven — a place where tots immerse themselves in the language at the feet of their elders. But baby birds do fly eventually. Kauanoe Kamana, 59, one of the two first scholars to earn a doctorate specifically in revitalization of indigenous languages, hopes to see the fruits of Hawaiian immersion education over more than three decades.
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Big Islander makes history with her degree
by Peter Sur
December 18, 2010
Kauanoe Kamana is a pioneer in the Hawaiian community, even if she is too humble to admit it. She's a founder and the president of the nonprofit 'Aha Punana Leo, which has revived the Hawaiian language with thousands of new, young speakers. She is an associate professor at the University of Hawaii at Hilo's Ka Haka 'Ula O Ke'elikolani College of Hawaiian Language, and principal of the Hawaiian immersion school Ke Kula 'O Nawahiokalaniopuu. Today, at UH-Hilo's fall commencement ceremonies, Kamana will receive a new honor -- a hood, a diploma and a doctorate in Hawaiian and indigenous language and culture revitalization.
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Territorial land laws and issues to be examined in a new book
UH doctoral scholar Iaukea refers to writings of her ancestor
June 30, 2010
University of Hawaii doctoral scholar and Mellon Hawai‘i Fellow Sydney Iaukea has signed a contract with the University of California Press to publish a book based on her 2008 doctoral dissertation, "E Pa‘a ‘Oukou: Holding and Remembering Hawaiian Understanding of Place and Politics."
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Historian Noelani Arista lays out aspects of her groundbreaking research on first contact between Euro-Americans and Hawaiians
June 9, 2010
Noelani Arista has received the prestigious 2010 Allan Nevins Prize from the Society of American Historians, a rare nod to a native American historian doing groundbreaking work on native history.
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Mellon-Hawaii fellows named
May 18, 2010
Two Big Island scholars have been selected as 2010 Mellon-Hawaii Doctoral Fellows in recognition of their commitment to the advancement of scholarship on Hawaiian cultural and natural environments, Hawaiian language, history, politics and society.
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Kekaha boy awarded Mellon-Hawai‘i Fellowship
May 13, 2010
Keao NeSmith has been selected as a 2010 Mellon-Hawai‘i Doctoral Fellow in recognition of his commitment to the advancement of scholarship on Hawaiian cultural and natural environments, Hawaiian language, history, politics and society, a press release states.
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Hawaiian scholars scoop top US fellowships to study at Waikato
May 10, 2010
In a New Zealand first, two Native Hawaiian scholars have won top US awards to complete their PhD studies at the University of Waikato.
The prestigious Mellon-Hawai’i doctoral fellowships are supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Kamehameha Schools, and are each worth US$40,000 (NZ$56,000) for the 2010-11 academic year, starting in September.
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Native Hawaiian scholars awarded Mellon-Hawaii Fellowships
May 9, 2010
Five Hawaiian scholars have been selected as 2010 Mellon-Hawaii Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellows in recognition of their commitment to the advancement of scholarship on Hawaiian cultural and natural environments, Hawaiian language, history, politics, and society.
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Fellowships for Native Hawaiian Scholars
December 31, 2008
The Mellon-Hawaii Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowship Program provides Native Hawaiian scholars the opportunity to complete their dissertations or to publish original research. Applications for the 2009-10 fellowship program are being accepted by The Kohala Center.
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Fellowships for Native Hawaiian Scholars
December 30, 2008
By The Kohala Center
The Mellon-Hawaii Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowship Program provides Native Hawaiian scholars the opportunity to complete their dissertations or to publish original research. Applications for the 2009-2010 fellowship program are being accepted by The Kohala Center.
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