2016 Annual Review

Contents:

Faculty Research:

Graduate Student Research:

Highlights from the Academic Year:

  • Looking at Books
  • NWWS: Crossing Borders
  • Putting a Face to Child Immigrants,” by Lidiana Soto, master’s candidate, School of Journalism and Communication
  • Remembering Joan Acker
Publication Year
2016

Articles

Articles
Michelle McKinley

CSWS Has a New Director: An Interview with Michelle McKinley

by Alice Evans, Managing Editor, CSWS Annual Review

When Michelle McKinley applied for the position of CSWS director earlier this year, an academic colleague exclaimed in ironic surprise: “But you hate administration!” It seems a fair question, then, to ask Dr. McKinley—law school professor, human rights lawyer, cultural anthropologist, mother of four children, caretaker of her own father, and an obviously busy and committed human being—why she took on the administration of an academic research center.

Movie poster for Princess Ka‘iulani (2009)

The Afterlife of Princess Ka‘iulani

by Stephanie Teves, Assistant Professor, Departments of Ethnic Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies

Acting as a subtle form of resistance to settler colonialism, a film and play about a Hawaiian Kingdom princess who died more than a hundred years ago allows Native Hawaiians to honor Ka‘iulani by thinking about her life and that of the Kingdom critically.