Museum Studies Graduate Certificate Program

American Studies Faculty:

Karen K. Kosasa, Ph.D., Director of the Museum Studies Graduate Certificate Program and Assistant Professor of AMerican Studies (Ph.D. in Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester; M.F.A., University of Hawaii) is an educator, cultural critic, and practicing artist. Her teachng and research interests are in visual and material culture with a special focus on issues of representation and critical pedagogy in museums and fine arts institutions. Ms. Kosasa is especially interested in the relationship between museums and minority communities, and recent efforts by museums (in America and abroad) to broaden their educational roles and expand their engagement with non-traditional visitors. Most of her writings examine the relationship between native and non-Native peoples in settler societies. Her work has been published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, History of Photography, Art Journal, Art Asia Pacific, and Amerasia, and she is currently working on a manuscript on art pedagogy and settler colonialism. For more biographic information see: www.hawaii.edu/amst/people_kosasa.htm.

William R. Chapman, D. Phil., Professor and Director of the Historic Preservation Program (D. Phil, Oxford; M.S., Historic Preservation, (Columbia), is an anthropologist and historic preservationist with considerable research and teaching experience in international preservation. A former Fulbright scholar (Italy, 1985), Chapman has worked in England, the Caribbean, India, and throughout the continental United States. He was formerly Historian, Mid-Atlantic Region, National Park Service, and has received numerous historic preservation awards and recognitions. He is the author or several books and many articles on historic preservation-related topics, which have appeared in the Bulletin of the Association for Preservation Technology, Winterthur Portfolio, Places, Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, Archaeology, and numerous other journals.

For more information on the Historic Preservation Program please go to their website at: www.hawaii.edu/amst/historic.htm

Cooperating Faculty:

Ivy Häli‘imaile Andrade, Assistant Professor of Art
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Lynn A. Davis, MLIS, Preservation Librarian
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Michael W. Graves, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology
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P. Bion Griffin, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies, Acting
Associate Dean of Social Sciences
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Pat Hickman, M.A., Professor of Art
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Thomas M. Klobe, Professor of Art, Art Gallery Director
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Barry V. Rolett, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Anthropology
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Geoffrey M. White, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology, Senior Fellow at East-West
Center
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Betty Lou Williams, Ph.D., Professor of Art Education
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updated 7/2/04