David Hanlon
Professor
Sakamaki Hall B417
(808) 956-6765
hanlon(at)hawaii.edu
[BA Holy Cross, 1970; MA Johns Hopkins 1976; PhD Hawai'i 1984]
Pacific Islands: Micronesia, Cross-Cultural Encounters, Ethnographic History
Representative Publications:
"'The Sea of Little Lands:' Examining Micronesia's Place in Pacific Studies," The Contemporary Pacific (forthcoming).
"'You Did What, Mr. President!' Trying to Write a Life History of Tosiwo Nakayama," in Telling Pacific Lives (Canberra, 2008).
"Beyond the 'English Method of Tattooing:' Decentering the Practice of History in Oceania," The Contemporary Pacific (2003).
Remaking Micronesia: Discourses over Development in a Pacific Territory, 1944-1982 (Honolulu, 1998).
Upon a Stone Altar: A History of the Island of Pohnpei to 1890 (Honolulu, 1989).