Kirsten Møllegaard, Professor of English
The unifying theme of Professor Møllegaard’s research is the triangulation of people, places, and stories. She explores folkloric and literary aspects of people’s physical environment.
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Lincoln Gotshalk, Emeritus Professor of Kinesiology and Exercise Sciences
Gotshalk is a musculoskeletal physiologist, anatomist, and exercise physiologist with a strong background in muscular strength and power training and total body systemic response to exercise and stress.
Avis Masuda, Assistant Professor of Education (Retired)
Assistant Professor Masuda’s research examines K-12 teaching practices, including student learning, the analyzing of student work, professional development and practitioner inquiry among colleagues.
William Sakai, Professor of Horticulture (Retired)
Professor Sakai’s research focuses on biofuels and salinity, and Hawaiʻi P-20 agricultural education. His research in aroids, the plants of the arum family (Araceae) of which taro is a member, continued throughout his career.
Daniel Brown, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology
Professor Emeritus Brown researches psychosocial stress and ethnic health disparities. His work grows out of interest in how humans, individually and in populations, adapt to environmental stress.
Norman Arancon, Professor of Horticulture
Professor Arancon pioneered research in the utilization of earthworm-worked soil amendments, referred to as vermicomposts, in increasing the growth, flowering and yields of plants.
Philippe Binder, Professor of Physics
Themes of Professor Binder’s research have included time series analysis, the relation between chaos and theory of computation, and the study of siphons.
Jerry Calton, Professor of Management (Retired)
Professor Calton questions social and environmental performance in business firms. His research tackles conventional theoretical assumptions about firms and the need for managers to deliver profitability often at the expense of stakeholder relations.
Yoshiko Fukushima, Professor of Performance Studies
Professor Fukushima investigates Japanese drama and Asian performance. Her research focuses on the use of comedies and the role of the comedians in wartime Japan, with attention to the Japanese military’s use of theatre as a tool of collaboration in wartime China.
Hiapo Perreira, Associate Professor of Hawaiian Language and Literature
Associate Professor Perreira recovers traditional Hawaiian oratory. His work plays a vital role in the overall revitalization of the Hawaiian language by providing another context for Hawaiian expression.
Diane Barrett, Professor of Education
Professor Barrett researches math education and helps design high school math curriculum for the state of Hawai‘i. Her research focuses mainly on math education, including inquiry in the math and science classroom, pedagogical content knowledge, assessment, and the impact of teacher collaboration on student learning.
Charmaine Higa-McMillan, Professor of Psychology
Professor Higa-McMillan researches evidence-based practices for youth mental health. She specializes in anxiety and depression in, and mental health services for, children and adolescents.
James Juvik, Emeritus Professor of Geography
Professor Juvik researches tropical forest climate, hydrology, ecology, paleo-ecology and international wildlife conservation and ecological studies. His most important contribution internationally in the climatological field is the development of the “Juvik Fog Gauge,” now used worldwide to provide standardized fog measurements. He’s also an international expert on tortoises.
Mark Panek, Professor of English
Professor Panek has contributed significantly to the local canon with two peer-reviewed and award-winning works published by University of Hawaiʻi Press.
Jacquelyn Johnson, Emerita Professor of Drama
Professor Johnson is a performing artist who works with oral history, local drama and literature. Her most significant creative work is adaptations and performances of strong female historical figures of the Hawaiian islands.
William “Pila” Wilson, Professor of Hawaiian Language
Prof. Wilson researches ancient language pathways to and from Hawaiʻi. He is recognized internationally for his work in Hawaiian language revitalization, notably for providing pathways for other Indigenous groups to learn from the highly successful Hawaiian language revitalization work occurring in Hilo.
Michael Shintaku, Professor of Plant Pathology (Retired)
Professor Shintaku specializes in researching diseases of taro, ginger, and lettuce, all crops of the Hawai’i Island agricultural community.
Maria Haws, Professor of Aquaculture
Associate Professor Haws conducts applied research in industry development, technology transfer and student training. She also specializes in the fields of invertebrate biology, aquaculture and coastal management, and natural resources management policy.
Kenneth Hon, Professor of Geology (Retired)
Professor Hon specializes in volcanology, petrology and mineralogy. His research interests concentrate on basaltic volcanoes in Hawai‘i and large ash-flow caldera eruptions.
Kimberly Furumo, Emerita Professor of Management Information Systems
Professor Furumo researches virtual work teams. Her research shows that it is harder to develop trust in virtual teams than in traditional face-to-face team settings.
