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J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Ph.D. is an associate professor of anthropology and American studies at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. 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 first book, Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Indigeneity and Sovereignty is forthcoming from Duke University Press, in 2008. Her scholarship appears in the following journals: Social Text, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, American Studies, Comparative American Studies, The Hawaiian Journal of History, Mississippi Review, Amerasia Journal, and American Indian Quarterly. She is currently co-editing a book with Andrea Lee Smith, Native Feminisms: Without Apology (under contract with University of Minnesota Press) and is currently embarking on two new book monographs: Native Hawaiian Women and the Politics of Decolonization that explores gender in indigenous Hawaiian nationalist struggles, and Hawaiian New England: The Grammar of American Colonialism.