Center for Pacific Island Studies

Letitia Hickson

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Outreach Coordinator, Center for Pacific Islands Studies; PhD Harvard University (1975)

e-mail: ctisha@hawaii.edu

Letitia Hickson, known as “Tisha,” conducted anthropological research on dispute settlement and on multiple versions of reality in a medical setting. She moved to Hawai‘i in 1977, was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at the John A Burns School of Medicine, and joined the Center for Pacific Islands Studies in 1987. As outreach coordinator she organizes public programs designed to promote an awareness of Pacific histories and issues, locally, nationally, and internationally. Dr Hickson has served as Reviews Editor for The Contemporary Pacific, and currently edits the center’s newsletter, Pacific News from Mānoa.