The regular faculty members are listed below with their areas of teaching and research interests. If you have a question for any of the faculty, please start by reading the short essay, Ask a Historian, by Prof. Karen Jolly. Also below are the department's affiliated faculty, and the various centers and programs associated with the department.
Leonard Andaya - (Professor)
Southeast Asia: Indonesia
Noelani M. Arista - (Assistant Professor)
Hawaii, 19th Century America, Pacific World
Jerry H. Bentley - (Professor)
Early Modern Europe, World History
Ned Bertz - (Assistant Professor)
South Asia, Africa, Indian Ocean, World History
Shana J. Brown - (Assistant Professor)
China: Twentieth-Century, Intellectual and Cultural
David A. Chappell - (Associate Professor)
Pacific Islands, Africa, World History
Elton L. Daniel - (Professor)
Islamic History and Civilization, Middle Eastern History, Historiography
Marcus Daniel - (Associate Professor)
U.S.: Colonial and Early Republic, Politics and Race in American History
Edward L. Davis - (Associate Professor)
China: Middle Period
William Wayne Farris - (Professor and Sen Chair)
Japanese social history
David Hanlon - (Professor)
Pacific Islands: Micronesia, Cross-Cultural Encounters, Ethnographic History
Margot A. Henriksen - (Associate Professor)
U.S.: Cultural, Recent America and Popular Culture
Peter H. Hoffenberg - (Associate Professor)
Modern Britain, British Empire and Commonwealth, Comparative Colonialism and Imperialism, Economic History
Karen L. Jolly - (Associate Professor)
Medieval Europe, Anglo-Saxon England, Medieval Christianity
Liam Kelly - (Associate Professor and Undergraduate Coord.)
Southeast Asia: Vietnam, Thailand, Chinese in Southeast Asia
James P. Kraft - (Associate Professor)
U.S.: Business and Labor
Vina A. Lanzona - (Assistant Professor)
Southeast Asia: Philippines
Matthew Lauzon - (Assistant Professor)
Early Modern Europe: European Intellectual History
Kieko Matteson - (Assistant Professor)
Environmental History, France, Europe
Robert E. McGlone - (Assistant Prof. and Undergraduate Coord.)
U.S.: Nineteenth-Century, Social History, Biography, Memory in History
Mark McNally - (Associate Professor, Graduate Chair and Chair)
Japan
Njoroge Njoroge - (Assistant Professor)
US, Caribbean & Latin America, Race and Critical Theory
Richard L. Rapson - (Professor)
U.S.: Social, Cultural, and Intellectual History
Richard C. Rath - (Associate Professor)
Early America, Native American History, History of the Senses
Suzanna Reiss - (Assistant Professor)
U.S.: Foreign Relations, Latin America & Caribbean, African Diaspora, History of Capitalism
Matthew Romaniello - (Assistant Professor)
Russia, early modern Europe, colonialism
John P. Rosa - (Assistant Professor)
Hawai’i, Pacific Islands, U.S. social and cultural
Michael P. Speidel - (Professor)
Greece and Rome, Roman Military History, Epigraphy
Yuma Totani - (Assistant Professor)
Modern Japan
Wensheng Wang - (Assistant Professor)
Ming Qing China, social protests, politics and culture
Jun Yoo - (Associate Professor)
Modern Korea, East Asia, Colonialism, Gender and Cultural Studies
Herbert F. Ziegler - (Associate Professor)
Modern Germany, 20th-Century Europe, World History
CARLSON, SUE
Graduate Secretary
Sakamaki A203 / (808) 956-8358 / ghistofc(at)hawaii.edu
CENTER FOR WORLD HISTORY
Sakamaki A402 / (808) 956-2891 / dsasaki(at)hawaii.edu
JOHNSON, MICHAEL
Instructional and Student Support
Sakamaki A203 / (808) 956-8486 / mfj(at)hawaii.edu
DEPARTMENT CHAIR'S OFFICE
Sakamaki A203 / (808) 956-7687
GRADUATE PROGRAM IN HISTORY
Sakamaki A203 / (808) 956-8358 / gradhist(at)hawaii.edu
GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANTS
Please call World History Program / Sakamaki A203 / (808) 956-7715 for information.
SASAKI, DEBRA
Editor, Center for for World History / Sakamaki A402 / (808) 956-2891 / dsasaki(at)hawaii.edu
UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM
Sakamaki A203 / (808) 956-8486
WELCH, WINSTON
Executive Director, World History Association / Sakamaki A410 / (808) 956-7888 / winstonw(at)hawaii.edu
WORLD HISTORY ASSOCIATION
Sakamaki A410 / (808) 956-7688 / thewha(at)hawaii.edu
WORLD HISTORY PROGRAM
Sakamaki A203 / (808) 956-7715
Last Updated: May 27, 2009