Center for Pacific Island Studies

core faculty

• terence wesley-smith

• tarcisius kabutaulaka

• lola quan bautista

• julie walsh

staff

• managing editor

• outreach director

• administrative asst

• graduate assistants

• affiliate faculty

• graduate students

Lola Quan Bautista

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Assistant Professor
Center for Pacific Islands Studies
PhD University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (2001)

email: lolab@hawaii.edu
(808) 956-2652

Lola Quan Bautista joined the CPIS teaching faculty in 2008. Her interests in the Micronesian diaspora, gender and households, and housing and community development are some of the topics she brings to two new undergraduate courses, Pacific Worlds (PACS 108) and Oceania on the Move (PACS 202).

Lola has recently completed a postdoctoral research minority fellowship with the National Science Foundation (NSF 00-139). Her study, "Understanding Domestic Space in an Urban Setting: Views from Migrant Women from the Federated States of Micronesia," attempts to delineate both gendered and indigenous understandings of mobility and behavior among migrant women from Chuuk State residing on newly created subdivisions on Guam.

Stemming from her field research, Lola serves as an advisor for a nonprofit organization called the United Pacific Islanders Organization, which was created to address the growing social and economic frustrations in newly created subdivisions on Guam. Made up mostly of Pacific Islanders from the Federated States of Micronesia, this nonprofit represents the first grassroots attempt to collectively establish desirable qualities for the built environment and community on Guam.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2011	Building Sense Out of Households: Migrants from Chuuk (Re)create Local Settlements in Guam. City & Society 23(1):66–90.
2010	Steadfast Movement Around Micronesia: Satowan Enlargements Beyond Migration. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
in preparation	Emic Understandings of Movement: Perspectives from Satowan Atoll, Chuuk. In Dwelling in Different Places: Pacific Movement, edited by Judy Bennett, David Welchman Gegeo, and Tarcisius Kabutaulaka.
1996	Migration to Guam from the Federated States of Micronesia. ISLA: A Journal of Micronesian Studies 4 (2 [Dry Season]): 351-364.