CJS Faculty and Specialists

DAVID E. ASHWORTH
Director of the Center for Interpretation and Translation Studies and Associate Professor of Japanese
PhD in Linguistics, Cornell (1972)
ashworth@hawaii.edu

HELEN J. BARONI
Associate Professor of Religion
PhD in Religion, Columbia (1993)
hbaroni@hawaii.edu

TOKIKO YAMAMOTO BAZZELL
Japan Specialist Librarian
MS in ESL, Southern Illinois University (1982)
MLS in Library and Information Science, Catholic University of America (1994)
tokiko@hawaii.edu

LONNY E. CARLILE
Associate Professor of Asian Studies/Center for Japanese Studies
PhD in Political Science, UC Berkeley (1989)
lonny@hawaii.edu

JOEL R. COHN
Associate Professor of Japanese
PhD in Japanese Literature, Harvard (1984)
cohn@hawaii.edu

HARUKO MINEGISHI COOK
Professor of Japanese
PhD in Linguistics, USC (1988)
hkcook@hawaii.edu

WILLIAM WAYNE FARRIS
Soshitsu Sen XV Distinguished Chair of Traditional Japanese Culture and History
PhD, Harvard (1981)
wfarris@hawaii.edu

PETRICE FLOWERS
Associate Professor of Political Science
PhD in Political Science, University of Minnesota (2002)
pflowers@hawaii.edu

THERESA GREANEY
Associate Professor of Economics
PhD in Economics, University of MIchigan-Ann Arbor (1994)

JOHN H. HAIG
Associate Professor of Japanese
PhD in Linguistics, Harvard University (1978)
haig@hawaii.edu

KYOKO HIJIRIDA
Professor of Japanese
EdD, University of Hawai’i (1980)
hijirida@hawaii.edu

ROBERT N. HUEY
Director of the Center for Japanese Studies
Professor of Japanese
PhD in Asian Languages (Japanese), Stanford (1984)
huey@hawaii.edu

JULIE IEZZI
Associate Professor of Theatre
PhD in Theatre, University of Hawai’i (2000)
iezzi@hawaii.edu

DAVID T. JOHNSON
Professor of Sociology and Adjunct Professor of Law
PhD in Jurisprudence and Social Policy, Boalt Hall School of Law, Berkeley (1996)
davidjoh@hawaii.edu

KAZUE KANNO
Associate Professor of Japanese
PhD in Linguistics, University of Hawai’i (1992)
kanno@hawaii.edu

TERRY KLAFEHN
Assistant Professor of Japanese
PhD in Linguistics, University of Hawai’i (2003)
tklafehn@hawaii.edu

MIRE KOIKARI
Associate Professor of Women’s Studies
PhD in Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1997)
mire@hawaii.edu

KIMI KONDO-BROWN
Associate Professor of Japanese
EdD in Education, University of Hawai’i (1998)
kondo@hawaii.edu

MARK ALAN LEVIN
Associate Professor of Law
JD, Yale Law School (1983)
levin@hawaii.edu

LUCY LOWER
Associate Professor of Japanese
PhD in Japanese Literature, Harvard University (1987)
lower@hawaii.edu

MARY GRACE MCDONALD
Associate Professor of Geography
PhD in Geography, Berkeley (1990)
mcdonald@hawaii.edu

MARK T. MCNALLY
Associate Professor of History
PhD in History, UCLA (1998)

MICHEL MOHR
Assistant Professor of Religion
PhD in Buddhist Studies, University of Geneva, Switzerland (1992)
mmohr@hawaii.edu

NOBUKO M. OCHNER
Associate Professor of Japanese
PhD in Japanese Literature
University of Hawai’i (1984)
ochner@hawaii.edu

STEVE ODIN
Professor of Philosophy
PhD in Philosophy, State University of New York (1980)
steveo@hawaii.edu

KATSUHIRO OTA
Assistant Professor of Japanese
PhD in Linguistics, University of Hawai’i (1999)
ota@hawaii.edu

KATSUE REYNOLDS
Professor of Japanese
PhD in Linguistics, UCLA (1978)
katsue@hawaii.edu

HIROHISA SAITO

Assistant Professor of Sociology

hs9@hawaii.edu

GAY MICHIKO SATSUMA
Associate Director of the Center for Japanese Studies
PhD in Japanese History, University of Hawai’i (1998)
gay@hawaii.edu

LEON A. SERAFIM
Associate Professor of Japanese
PhD in Linguistics, Yale University (1984)
serafim@hawaii.edu

HISAMI KONISHI SPRINGER
Japanese Catalogue Librarian
MLS, University of Hawai’i (1968)
PhD in Linguistics, University of Hawai’i (1993)
springer@hawaii.edu

PATRICIA STEINHOFF
Professor of Sociology
PhD in Sociology, Harvard University (1969)
steinhof@hawaii.edu

JOHN SZOSTAK
Assistant Professor of Art History
PhD in Art History, University of Washington (2005)
szostak@hawaii.edu

ARTHUR H. THORNHILL III
Associate Professor of Japanese
PhD in Japanese, Harvard University (1985)
thornhil@hawaii.edu

RICARDO TRIMILLOS
Graduate Chair of the Asian Studies Program (SHAPS)
Professor of Asian Studies and Ethnomusicology
PhD in Ethnomusicology, UCLA (1972)
rtrimil@hawaii.edu

YUMA TOTANI
Assistant Professor of History
PhD in History, UC Berkeley (2005)
yuma.totani@hawaii.edu

ALEXANDER V. VOVIN
Professor of East Asian Languages
PhD in Japanese, Leningrad State University (1987)
vovin@hawaii.edu

CHRISTINE R. YANO
Professor of Anthropology
PhD in Anthropology, University of Hawai’i (1995)
cryano@hawaii.edu

DINA R. YOSHIMI
Associate Professor of Japanese
PhD in Linguistics (Applied), USC (1993)
dinar@hawaii.edu