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William R. Chapman, Professor
Degree: D. Phil OxfordUniversity
Areas: Historic Preservation
e-mail: wchapman@hawaii.edu
Office: Moore Hall 308
Phone: (808) 956-8574Hye Seung Chung, Assistant Professor
Degree: PhD University of California, Los Angeles
Areas: Film and Television; Popular Culture; Feminist & Postcolonial Theories; Korea and the Cold War
e-mail: hschung@hawaii.edu
Office: Moore Hall 334
Phone: (808) 956-8826Vernadette V. Gonzalez, Assistant Professor
Degree: PhD University of California-Berkeley
Areas: American Empire; Tourism & Militarism; Gender & Sexuality; Ethnic & Cultural Studies
e-mail: vvg@hawaii.edu
Office: Moore Hall 331
Phone: (808) 956-8587
Theodore S. Gonzalves, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Chair
Degree: PhD University of California-Irvine
Areas: Asian American Culture, History & Politics; Ethnic & Cultural Studies; Performing Arts
e-mail: theo@hawaii.edu
Office: Moore Hall 333
Phone: (808) 956-8700Mark I. Helbling, Professor
Degree: PhD University of Minnesota
Areas: Cultural Theory, African American Studies, Literature
e-mail: helbling@hawaii.edu
Office: Moore Hall 330
Phone: (808) 956-8247James Oliver Horton, Professor
Degree: PhD Brandeis University
Areas: Race, 19th Century Social History, Antebellum South, Slavery and the Civil War, Public History
e-mail: johorton@hawaii.edu
Office: Moore Hall 324
Lois E. Horton, Professor
Degree: PhD Brandeis University
Areas: Race, Gender and Ethnicity, Urban History, Social Change
e-mail:lhorton@hawaii.edu
Office: Moore Hall 324Karen Kosasa, Assistant Professor
Degree: PhD University of Rochester
Areas: Visual and Cultural Studies, Museum Studies, Critical Pedagogy
e-mail:kosasa@hawaii.edu
Office: Moore Hall 332
Phone: (808) 956-8676Dennis Ogawa, Professor
Degree: PhD University of California at Los Angeles
Areas: Intercultural and Japanese American Studies
e-mail: dogawa@hawaii.edu
Office: Moore Hall 329
Phone: (808) 956-8685Robert R. Perkinson, Associate Professor and Graduate Chair
Degree: PhD Yale University
Areas: Crime and Punishment, Southern and Western History, Race and Class, American Empire
e-mail: perk@hawaii.edu
Office: Moore Hall 307
Phone: (808) 956-6599Kathleen M. Sands, Associate Professor
Degree: PhD Boston College
Areas: Religion in America, Religion and Law, Women in Religion, Christian History, and Theory of Religion
e-mail: kmsands@hawaii.edu
Office: Moore Hall 303
Phone: (808) 956-9093
David E. Stannard, Professor and Department Chair
Degree: PhD Yale University
Areas:Social and Cultural History, Race and Racism, Theory and Method
e-mail: stannard@hawaii.rr.com
Office: Moore Hall 306
Phone: (808) 956-8115Mari Yoshihara, Professor
Degree: PhD Brown University
Areas: Colonialism and Orientalism, Women's and Gender Studies, Literary and Cultural Studies, U.S.-Asia Relations
e-mail: myoshiha@hawaii.edu
Office: Moore Hall 305
Phone: (808) 956-8542