Contributors
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Vicente M. Diaz is Pohnpeian and Filipino, born and raised on Guam. He taught Pacific History and Micronesian Studies at the University of Guam from 1991 to 2001, before joining the faculty at the Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies unit, Program in American Culture, The University of Michigan. Diaz’s research and teaching interests include Native Pacific Cultural Studies, Cultural Studies of Sports, Traditional Voyaging, and Pacific Film and Video Production and Studies.
Davianna Pomaika’i McGregor, an Associate Professor and founding member of Ethnic Studies at the University of Hawai’i, Manoa, is a historian of Hawai’i and the Pacific. Her ongoing research endeavors have focused on documenting the persistence of traditional Hawaiian cultural customs, beliefs, and practices in rural Hawaiian communities, including the island of Moloka’i; the districts of Puna and Ka’u on Hawai’i; Ke’anae-Wailuanui on Maui; and Waiahole-Waikane on O’ahu. This work is featured in her forthcoming University of Hawai’i Press book, Kua’aina: Keepers of Hawai’i’s Sacred Nature.
John P. Rosa is Assistant Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies at Arizona State University. His research and teaching focus on the history and cultural politics of Hawai’i and the Pacific. His forthcoming book, Local Story: The Massie—Kahahawai Case and the Politics of Identity in Hawai’i, is being published by the University of Hawai’i Press.
Amy Ku’leialoha Stillman is Associate Professor of American Culture, and serves as Director of Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies at the University of Michigan. An authority on Polynesian music and dance traditions (Hawai’i and Tahiti in particular), Dr. Stillman is the author of Sacred Hula: The Historical Hula ‘la’apapa (1998), and more than twenty articles appearing in such publications as Amerasia Journal, Ethnomusicology, Hawaiian Journal of History, Journal of American Folklore, and Music Library Association Notes.
Dana Takagi is Professor of Sociology and co-director of the Center for Justice, Tolerance and Community at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
