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Jun15

Season 6 Archive: “Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond”

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Episode #1: Tribal Recognition, Acknowledgment, and Termination: U.S. State and Federal Policy
Join your host, J. Kehaulani Kauanui for a selection of presentations from the first Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) conference held May 21 - 23, 2009 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which drew more than 600 scholars from 16 countries and dozens of tribal […]

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Feb12

Season 5 Archive: “Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond”

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Episode #1: The International Indian Treaty Council Implementing the UN Declaration
Join your host, Dr. J. Kehaulani Kauanui for an interview with Andrea Carmen (Yacqui Indian Nation), Executive Director of the International Indian Treaty Council. The International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) is an organization of Indigenous Peoples from North, Central, South America, the Caribbean […]

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Jan14

Season 4 Archive: “Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond”

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Show #1: Exhibiting Race and Indigeneity
Explore the exhibit opening of “Race: Are We So Different?” at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center. The exhibition is part of a larger public education project from the American Anthropological Association and is funded by the Ford Foundation and the National Science foundation. The exhibit, began its […]

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J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Ph.D. is an associate professor of anthropology and American studies at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.

Her first book, Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity, was published by Duke University Press (2008).

She is currently embarking on two new book monographs: The Kingdom Come? Hawaiian Nationalism and the Politics of Gender and Sexuality, and Hawaiian New England: The Grammar of American Colonialism.

She has co-edited special journal issues: “Migrating Feminisms,” Women’s Studies International Forum (1998);”Native Pacific Cultural Studies on the Edge,” The Contemporary Pacific (2001); and “Women Writing Oceania: Weaving the Sails of the Waka,” Pacific Studies (2007).

Her essays have been published in the following journals: SAQ: South Atlantic Quarterly, Social Text, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, American Studies, Comparative American Studies, The Hawaiian Journal of History, Mississippi Review, Amerasia Journal, The Contemporary Pacific, Pacific Studies, Women’s Studies International Forum, and American Indian Quarterly.

She also sits on the following editorial boards: Settler Colonial Studies, American Indian Quarterly; Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism; Hulili: Multidisciplinary Research on Hawaiian Well-Being; and Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific. From 2005-2010, she also served as an editorial board member of Journal of Pacific History.

From 2005-2008, Kauanui was part of a six-person steering committee that co-founded the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA). From 2008-2009, she served as an acting council member. In May 2009, she was elected as a council member for a three year term. For more information, see: http://naisa.org/

She is a member of the Advisory Board of the US Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel. For more information, see: http://usacbi.wordpress.com/