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University
of Hawai‘i Faculty Experts on War-Related Issues
(by topic and country)
For additional information, contact the External Affairs and University Relations
Public Relations Office at (808) 956-5039 or newsroom@hawaii.edu.
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POLITICS
OF WAR
(foreign policy, diplomacy, international relations, cultural aspects)
BRIEN HALLETT, Associate Professor of Peace Studies
Matsunaga Institute for Peace, UH Manoa – www.peaceinstitute.hawaii.edu
(808) 956-4236/7427
bhallett@hawaii.edu
Research interests/specialty: War and democratic theory; Congressional war powers;
the laws of war; declarations of war; the Constitution; globalization
Publication: "The Lost Art of Declaring War," a reference used by
the U.S. Senate in drafting a war resolution in early October 2002
CAROLYN STEPHENSON, Associate Professor of Political Science and Population
Studies
Department of Political Science, UH Manoa, www2.hawaii.edu/pols
(808) 956-8195
cstephen@hawaii.edu
Research interests/specialty: Alternative international security systems, including
mediation, sanctions, nonviolent action, and peacekeeping; non-governmental
organizations and United Nations conference diplomacy in the areas of environment,
women, and disarmament; gender, conflict and conflict resolution
RICHARD BRISLIN, Professor of Management
College of Business Administration, UH Manoa, www.cba.hawaii.edu
(808) 956-8720
brislinr@hawaii.edu
Research interests/specialty: Cultural differences; industrial psychology; cross-cultural
psychology; intercultural communication for international business
LLEWELLYN HOWELL, Director of Executive Master’s Program
College of Business Administration, UH Manoa, www.cba.hawaii.edu
(808) 956-8740
lhowell@cba.hawaii.edu
Research interests/specialty: Political risk assessment; international relations;
American foreign policy; foreign economic policy; international affairs editor
for USA Today Magazine
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INTERNATIONAL
LAW RELEVANT TO WAR
JON VAN DYKE, Professor of Law
William S. Richardson School of Law, UH Manoa, www.hawaii.edu/law
(808) 956-8509
jvandyke@hawaii.edu
Research interests/specialty: Constitutional law; international law; international
law in regards to human rights; international environmental law; the state constitution;
nuclear waste; water rights.
TERRORISM
AND NATIONAL SECURITY
LES SPONSEL, Professor of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology, UH Manoa, www2.soc.hawaii.edu/css/anth/
(808) 956-8507
sponsel@hawaii.edu
Research interests/specialty: War; national security; terrorism; impact of war
on humans; society and environment; nonviolence/peace/human rights
SUSAN DIXON, Lecturer
Department of Geography, UH Manoa, www.geography.hawaii.edu
(808) 956-8465
sdixon@hawaii.edu
Research interests/specialty: Politics of war; national security; foreign policy;
terrorism; impact of war on humans; society and environment; nonviolence/peace/human
rights
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ECONOMIC
IMPACT OF WAR
JACK SUYDERHOUD, Professor of Financial Economics and Institutions
College of Business Administration, UH Manoa, www.cba.hawaii.edu
(808) 956-8503
suyder@cba.hawaii.edu
Research interests/specialty: Hawai‘i economy; tax policy; state-local
revenue diversification; balance and fiscal performance; state income tax expenditures
SUMNER LA CROIX, Professor of Economics and Chair
Department of Economics, UH Manoa, www2.soc.hawaii.edu/css/econ
(808) 956-8730
lacroix@hawaii.edu
Research interests/specialty: Terrorism; impact of war on Hawai‘i, China
and Japan economies; economic history and development of Asia-Pacific region;
industrial organization; law and economics
CARL BONHAM, Associate Professor of Economics and Director,
UH Economic Research Organization – www2.hawaii.edu/~uhero
Department of Economics, UH Manoa, www2.hawaii.edu/~bonham
(808) 956-7605
bonham@hawaii.edu
Research interests/specialty: Forecasting and the Hawai‘i economy; tourism
economics; financial markets and institutions; macroeconomics; applied dynamic
econometrics
BYRON GANGNES, Associate Professor of Economics and Hawai‘i Research
Group Director, UH Economic Research Organization
Department of Economics, UH Manoa, www2.hawaii.edu/~gangnes
(808) 956-7285
gangnes@hawaii.edu
Research interests/specialty: Impact of war on Hawai‘i’s economy;
international linkages between the U.S. and Pacific Asian economies, particularly
Japan
THERESA GREANEY, Associate Professor of Economics
Department of Economics, UH Manoa
(808) 956-7521
greaney@hawaii.edu
Research interests/specialty: International trade; Japanese economy; impact
of war on Japan’s economy; U.S.-Japan trade relations
XIAOJUN WANG, Professor of Economics
Department of Economics, UH Manoa
(808) 956-7721
xiaojun@hawaii.edu
Research interests/specialty: Impact of war on China’s economy; Chinese
economic development; growth, development and labor market reform in the Chinese
economy
JAMES MAK, Professor of Economics
Department of Economics, UH Manoa
(808) 956-8280
jmak@hawaii.edu
Research interests/specialty: Impact of war on Hawai‘i’s economy;
economics of travel and tourism; public finance; Hawai‘i, Pacific Islands
and Japan economies
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BIOTERRORISM/INFECTIOUS
DISEASES
DEWOLFE MILLER, Professor of Epidemiology and Chair
Department of Public Health Sciences and Epidemiology, UH Manoa, www2.hawaii.edu/~pubhlth
(808) 956-5739
dewolfe@hawaii.edu
Research interests/specialty: Bioterrorism; infectious diseases; Middle East
(taught at universities in Iran and Egypt); current research project involves
study of Egyptian mummies to determine existence of infectious diseases
RICHARD YANAGIHARA, Director, Retrovirology Research Laboratory
Pacific Biomedical Research Center, www.pbrc.hawaii.edu
(808) 956-6980
yanagiha@pbrc.hawaii.edu
Research interests/specialty: Human retroviruses; emerging infectious diseases
ISLAMIC
RELIGION AND CULTURE
DRU GLADNEY, Professor of Asian Studies and Anthropology
School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies and Department of Anthropology,
UH Manoa, www.hawaii.edu/shaps
(808) 956-5237
dru@hawaii.edu
Research interests/specialty: Islam; comparative Muslim societies; anthropology
of religion in China and inner Asia; globalization and nationalism
TAMARA ALBERTINI, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy, UH Manoa, www.hawaii.edu/phil
(808) 956-6689
tamaraa@hawaii.edu
Research interests/specialty: Islamic philosophy and contemporary Sufism; Renaissance
and early modern philosophy; feminist issues and philosophy; Muslim thought
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RELATING TO THE MIDDLE EAST REGION
MAJID TEHRANIAN, Professor of International Communication; Cooperating
Faculty, Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace; Director, Toda Institute for
Global Peace and Policy Research – www.toda.org
School of Communications, UH Manoa
(808) 956-3353
majid@hawaii.edu
Research interests/specialty: Middle Eastern and Asia-Pacific affairs; international
political economy of culture; communication; development; democracy; peace;
intercultural communication; previously taught at Harvard, Oxford and Tehran
universities
FARIDEH FARHI,
Department of Political Science, UH Manoa
(808) 956-8171
farideh@hawaii.edu
Research interests/specialty: Middle Eastern and North Africa politics, with
specific focus on Iran; Iranian by background; has written extensively about
the Middle East
KATHY FERGUSON, Professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies
and Director
Women’s Studies Program, UH Manoa, www2.soc.hawaii.edu/ws
(808) 956-8835
kferguso@hawaii.edu
Research interests/specialty: Middle East; women in the military; feminist theory;
women and war; militarism in Hawai‘i; gender and militarism within the
context of globalization
ATIQA HACHIMI, Lecturer in Elementary and Intermediate Modern Standard
Arabic
Department of Hawaiian and Indo-Pacific Languages and Literature, UH Manoa
(808) 956-3556
atiqa@hawaii.edu
Research interests/specialty: Arabic language and culture; language and gender
in the Arab world
IBRAHIM AOUDE, Professor
Department of Ethnic Studies, UH Manoa
(808) 956-4000
aoude@hawaii.edu
Research interests/specialty: Middle East politics; Hawai‘i political economy
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NUCLEAR
WEAPONS
MICHAEL JONES, Associate Physicist
Department of Physics and Astronomy, UH Manoa, www.phys.hawaii.edu
(808) 956-2932
mdj@phys.hawaii.edu
Research interests/specialty: Nuclear disarmament; effects of using nuclear
weapons; treaties restricting nuclear weapons; treaties prohibiting chemical
and biological weapons; IAEA and UNMOVIC inspections in Iraq; North Korea’s
nuclear program and IAEA missile defenses
MEDIA
COVERAGE OF WAR
BEVERLY KEEVER, Professor of Journalism
School of Communications, UH Manoa, www2.soc.hawaii.edu/com
(808) 956-3781
bkeever@hawaii.edu
Research interests/specialty: Media coverage of war; U.S. news coverage of racial
minorities and Pacific Islanders; covered the Vietnam War for seven years, reporting
for Newsweek, the New York Herald Tribune, and the Christian Science Monitor;
nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the embattled outpost of Khe
Sanh
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TOURISM
AND TRANSPORTATION
PAULINE SHELDON, Interim Dean and Professor of Tourism
School of Travel Industry Management, UH Manoa, www.tim.hawaii.edu
(808) 956-7166
psheldon@hawaii.edu
Research interests/specialty: Tourism policy; information systems; economics
and research methods; tourism education
FREDRICK COLLISON, Professor of Transportation and Marketing
School of Travel Industry Management, UH Manoa, www.tim.hawaii.edu
(808) 956-8124
collison@hawaii.edu
Research interests/specialty: Effects of war on airline industry and other transportation
networks; transportation and tourism development in the Pacific
TALKING
TO CHILDREN ABOUT WAR
SYLVIA YUEN, Director
Center on the Family, UH Manoa, www.uhfamily.hawaii.edu
(808) 956-4132
syuen@hawaii.edu
Research interests/specialty: Children and family; how to talk to children about
war
BRUCE CHORPITA, Associate Professor of Psychology and Co-Director
of the Center for Cognitive Behavior Therapy
Department of Psychology, UH Manoa, www2.hawaii.edu/~chorpita/casap.html
(808) 956-3607
chorpita@hawaii.edu
Research Interests/specialties: Reducing stress and anxiety in children and
adolescents related to war
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KOREA
EDWARD SHULTZ, Professor of History and Director
Center for Korean Studies, UH Manoa
(808) 956-7041
shultz@hawaii.edu
Research interests/specialty: North Korea; Korean history
DAE-SOOK SUH, Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science and the Center for Korean Studies, UH Manoa
(808) 956-8841
daesook@hawaii.edu
Research interests/specialty: North Korea, East Asia comparative politics; Asian
communism and nationalism; Russian politics and influence on North Korea and
other East Asian countries; military and security issues of East Asia
HAGEN KOO, Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology, and the Center for Korean Studies, UH Manoa, www.sociology.hawaii.edu
(808) 956-8248
hagenkoo@hawaii.edu
Research interests/specialty: Sociology of East Asian development; social change
in South Korea; globalization and middle class lifestyles in East Asian societies
PHILIPPINES
BELINDA AQUINO, Professor of Political Science and Director
Center for Philippine Studies, UH Manoa, www.hawaii.edu/cps
(808) 956-2686
lyndy@hawaii.edu
Research interests/specialty: Contemporary Philippine politics; U.S.-Philippine
relations; politics of corruption during the Marcos dictatorship; the Mindanao
crisis; Filipino issues in America
DEAN ALEGADO, Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Ethnic Studies, UH Manoa
(808) 956-6915
alegado@hawaii.edu
Research interests/specialty: Political events/developments in the Philippines;
international migration; U.S. immigration policy; the Filipino American community
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