Lynn Morrison, Professor of Anthropology
Professor Morrison researches women’s health and domestic violence in Hilo. Recently, Prof. Morrison shifted her research interests toward the intersection of human health and animal welfare.
Category: Arts & Sciences
Jiren Feng, Associate Professor of Chinese Studies
Associate Professor Feng researches the interplay of Chinese architecture and literature. His research interests include the history of Chinese art and architecture and the transmission of technical knowledge.
Randy Hirokawa, Professor of Communication
Professor Hirokawa’s scholarship has contributed to the development of a theory called the “functional perspective,” identified as one of the three most influential theories of small group communication.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
B. Christopher Frueh, Professor of Psychology
Professor Frueh researches treatments for post traumatic stress disorder. He focuses on clinical trials, epidemiology, and mental health services relevant to innovative treatments and mental health service improvements for people with PTSD.
Ronald Amundson, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy
Professor Emeritus Amundson’s research into the way historians and philosophers view and respond to the history of evolutionary biology is internationally renown—his groundbreaking work is in the study of Evo-Devo.
Michael Marshall, Professor of Art
Professor Marshall is an artist and educator with a focus on building community through his academic work and community service.
Kerri Inglis, Professor of History
Professor Inglis has devoted her career to studying the history of leprosy in Hawai‘i with focus on the history of kama‘āina who lived on the peninsula of Kalaupapa, Molokai.
