Dana Van Aken is co-founder and CTO of OtterTune (https://ottertune.com). She recently completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of autonomous database technology and machine learning.

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Lupus Survivor, Advocate, Actress, Coach & Non-profit Thriver Zuriel Gibson is the eldest of five children who was born New Orleans, Louisiana. She was often declared as the “different” one and shunned due to the vastness of her dreams. Her passion has contributed to her success as the CEO of Blue Wings Home Health Services and more than fifteen years as an industry fashion and print model. The doctors diagnosed Zuriel with lupus and said that she wouldn’t live past the age of twenty-four. Due to lack of knowledge and resources at the time, she immediately thought that her dreams were no longer attainable; life was over. After many bouts with depression, pain, addictions and hospital stays, Zuriel became discontent and decided to use her pain to propel her into purpose. As a lupus survivor and advocate, she has become a much sought after speaker. Her message, “There is purpose in your pain,” has been shared on numerous media outlets such as The Kingdom Broadcast Network, Destiny Channel TV, Something Good is About to Happen, The Ladies Room Radio Broadcast and more.

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Diplômée en Sciences Sociales et en Ingénierie de formation, j'ai également exercé durant 15 ans la profession de Chef d'Entreprise dans les milieux de la fabrication et la conception

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I am currently an SY BTech student, at Cummins College of Engineering for Women, Pune. An AGI enthusiast, aspiring polymath, and I watch (almost) every Joe Rogan and Lex Fridman podcast!
I've been a machine learning developer for the past year, with various projects, and 2 papers undergoing publishing. I've been a part of a paper presentation conference in January 2020. My team and I were the youngest, amongst fellow MS and Ph.D. Students.

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I’m an Android Engineer working at ShareTheMeal, UN World Food Programme with an aim to end world hunger with the help of Digital innovation. I’m passionate about coding and love creating robust, polished and exciting projects for mobile, Android Auto and wearables.

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Jürgen Cito recently received his PhD from the University of Zurich, Switzerland with a thesis on "Software Runtime Analytics for Developers". He will be a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) starting April 2018. He works on the intersection of software engineering and performance engineering. During his PhD he was a research intern at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York. He visited MIT to work on program analysis to reduce energy consumption, and the University of Cambridge to work on game theoretical aspects of scheduling in embedded systems. Prior to starting his PhD, Jürgen was a software engineer for performance monitoring solutions at Catchpoint Systems, a technology consultant at Accenture, and a software engineer for a web agency in Vienna, Austria.

Jürgen Cito recently received his PhD from the University of Zurich, Switzerland with a thesis on "Software Runtime Analytics for Developers". He will be a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) starting April 2018... Show more

Studium der Anglistik, Germanistik, Erziehungswissenschaft an der TU Dresden. Nach der Promotion wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am CODIP der TU Dresden. Seit 2022 Projektmitarbeiterin D2C2 an der Berufsakademie Sachsen / Duale Hochschule Sachsen.

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Katherine Achacoso (she/her/sija) is a queer daughter of the Filipinx and Surigaonon diasporas. She was raised in Tkaronto and has spent the past decade learning, organizing, and teaching in occupied Hawaiʻi. Katherine has areas of specialization in environmental justice, critical ecology studies, diaspora, gender and sexuality, and Critical Indigenous Studies/Indigenous feminisms. Her ongoing research examines the transnational history of North American mining on her ancestral homelands in Surigao, focusing on the insurgent ecological responses of Surigaonon communities at home and in diaspora. Katherine is also working on several collaborative projects on Asian settler colonialism and Indigenous politics in Asia, decolonial approaches to disability justice in occupied Hawaiʻi, and community curriculum on survivor-centered approaches to transformative justice. As a scholar-activist, Katherine remains committed to building community-engaged projects and pedagogy that work toward decolonization and transnational solidarities across the Philippines, Oceania, and Turtle Island.

Katherine Achacoso (she/her/sija) is a queer daughter of the Filipinx and Surigaonon diasporas. She was raised in Tkaronto and has spent the past decade learning, organizing, and teaching in occupied Hawaiʻi. Katherine has areas of specialization in ... Show more

Abhirup Vijay Gunakar is a Systems Security Researcher at Arizona State University, focused on concurrency, data-race detection, and serverless architectures. He has integrated open source tools like ThreadSanitizer into research on multithreaded code reliability, and has introduced serverless concepts to developer communities. Abhirup is passionate about bridging academic insights with practical solutions that simplify infrastructure and strengthen software security.

Abhirup Vijay Gunakar is a Systems Security Researcher at Arizona State University, focused on concurrency, data-race detection, and serverless architectures. He has integrated open source tools like ThreadSanitizer into research on multithreaded cod... Show more

Henry Cheng is a PhD candidate in History at Cornell University (ABD, 2025), where his research examines Cold War afterlives, postsocialist reinventions, and Asian American politics across labor, law, and memory. His work traces how Maoist discourses, mnemonic governance, and racialized citizenship travel between the PRC and U.S. urban organizing, using archival, ethnographic, and discourse-analytic methods. He has forthcoming pieces on Chinese evangelical politics, PRC anti-separatist cinema, and transnational gendered nationalism. At Cornell he has taught in Asian American history, ethics and environment, and U.S. 1960s–70s social movements, and his fellowship support includes the Racial Justice and Equitable Futures Fellowship and the Reppy Graduate Fellowship.

Henry Cheng is a PhD candidate in History at Cornell University (ABD, 2025), where his research examines Cold War afterlives, postsocialist reinventions, and Asian American politics across labor, law, and memory. His work traces how Maoist discourses... Show more

Pup Ryder is a member of the Toronto pup community and previously held a directory position in the Pups Anthros Littles Society Toronto-based non-profit organization.

He has been conducting research on pup play academically since 2022 and is currently pursuing a PhD in psychology examining the formation of boundaries in power exchange relationships. He also has several pup play centred studies/projects underway.

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Demetrius(They/he) is a third year PhD student in Global and International Studies at UC, Irvine. Their interests are in Asian American Studies, Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Cambodian Studies. They are a recent graduate from California State University, Long Beach, where they received their B.A in History with a minor in Asian American Studies. As an undergrad, Demetrius was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow and recipient of the Distinguished Undergraduate in History award.

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Originally from Roseville, CA, working in residence life began for Alex when he was a first-year student at William Jessup University near Sacramento, CA. A professional staff member asked Alex to apply to be an Orientation Leader and later on a Resident Advisor. Since then Alex finished his Masters Degree in Student Development Counseling & Administration at Indiana Wesleyan University and his Doctorate of Education in Higher Education Leadership at Azusa Pacific University, studying the development of programming to increase residential college students' sense of community. Alex loves television shows, movies, camping, traveling, and sitting around and talking.

Originally from Roseville, CA, working in residence life began for Alex when he was a first-year student at William Jessup University near Sacramento, CA. A professional staff member asked Alex to apply to be an Orientation Leader and later on a Resi... Show more

Pujarinee Mitra (she/her/hers) is a PhD student at Texas A&M University, College Station. Her research focuses on the mobilization of anti-fascist affects in South Asian English literature and Hindi commercial cinema from 1990-present. She has published her work in Humanities, Feminist Encounters, and Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics. Her public-facing writing has appeared in Film Companion and Live Wire. Her areas of interest include Postcolonial Studies, South Asian Literature and Cinema, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cultures of Fascism and Anti-Fascism, and Affect Theory.

Pujarinee Mitra (she/her/hers) is a PhD student at Texas A&M University, College Station. Her research focuses on the mobilization of anti-fascist affects in South Asian English literature and Hindi commercial cinema from 1990-present. She has publis... Show more

Eleonora Buonocore is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Calgary, Alberta (Canada). She holds a PhD in Medieval Philosophy from University of Siena, (2009) and in 2016 she completed her second PhD from Yale University. In 2017 she was Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian at Colby College, before moving to Canada. In 2022 she won the Student Union award for excellence in teaching at the University of Calgary. In 2021-22 she was a fellow at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities working on her monograph on the concept of memory in Dante’s Divine Comedy.

Her research lies at the intersection between philosophy and literature in the Medieval world, in Dante and in early Renaissance thought. She co- edited a volume of Studium (2021) in which she also published an article on Dante’s Convivio and Monarchia as well as she has published on Italian women writers such as Carolina Invernizio and on Italian Film.

Eleonora Buonocore is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Calgary, Alberta (Canada). She holds a PhD in Medieval Philosophy from University of Siena, (2009) and in 2016 she completed her second PhD from Yale University. In 201... Show more

Vanessa Ajagu is an attorney in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. She is a member of the firm’s Litigation Practice Group.

Vanessa has broad experience in high-stakes complex litigation before federal and state courts, representing clients in the technology, labor and employment, and finance sectors. These matters include defending a major technology company in a securities class action, representing clients in multiple shareholder litigation matters before the Delaware Court of Chancery, achieving victory on behalf of a leading beverage company in arbitration, and reversing a lower court ruling in favor of a streaming company in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Vanessa has a robust pro bono practice centered on appellate advocacy and women’s rights. She has argued and briefed matters before appellate courts, including successfully challenging a decision that reduced attorneys’ fees awarded to The Legal Aid Society based solely on its nonprofit status. She has also contributed to multiple amicus briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court. Beyond her appellate work, Vanessa advocates for survivors of domestic violence—obtaining a restraining order on behalf of one client following an evidentiary hearing and successfully achieving a reduced sentence for another under New York’s Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act (DVSJA).

Before joining the firm, Vanessa served as a law clerk to the Honorable Gerard E. Lynch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Honorable Margo K. Brodie of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Vanessa received her Juris Doctor in 2020 from Columbia Law School, where she was named a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and served as a Senior Editor of the Columbia Law Review. At Columbia Law, she was awarded a Parker School Recognition of Achievement in International and Comparative Law and selected as a fellow for the Salzburg Lloyd N. Cutler Fellows Program in International Law. She received a Master’s in International Criminal Law from the University of Amsterdam in 2020 and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with high distinction from Queen’s University in 2017.

Vanessa is admitted to practice before the Southern and Eastern District Courts of New York as well as New York state courts.

Vanessa Ajagu is an attorney in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. She is a member of the firm’s Litigation Practice Group. Vanessa has broad experience in high-stakes complex litigation before federal and state courts, representi... Show more

Sohom is a second-year PhD student at the Wolfpack Privacy and Security Lab at North Carolina State University. Besides researching web browsers, he spends his time playing CTF challenges, contributing to open-source projects, and writing about cybersecurity topics on Wikipedia!

Sohom is a second-year PhD student at the Wolfpack Privacy and Security Lab at North Carolina State University. Besides researching web browsers, he spends his time playing CTF challenges, contributing to open-source projects, and writing about cyber... Show more

Beril is a growth marketer with a deep background in consumer psychology. She currently leads multi-market acquisition at ClassPass, managing £10M+ annual performance budgets and scaling growth across global regions. With 6+ years of experience across startups, scaleups and global brands, her work focuses on how people really think and decide — not just what dashboards show.

She holds both a BA and MSc in psychology, specialising in consumer behaviour at King’s College London, and works at the intersection of growth strategy, behavioural science, and human-centred decision design.

Beril is a growth marketer with a deep background in consumer psychology. She currently leads multi-market acquisition at ClassPass, managing £10M+ annual performance budgets and scaling growth across global regions. With 6+ years of experience acros... Show more

Jacqueline DiCanio is a two-time SUNY Stony Brook University graduate (BA/MA) with a deep passion for Italian literature, heritage, and regional history. After growing up and engaging the Italian-American community on Long Island, she now teaches with the U.S. Department of Defense Education Activity at Vicenza Middle School in Italy.

Jacqueline DiCanio is a two-time SUNY Stony Brook University graduate (BA/MA) with a deep passion for Italian literature, heritage, and regional history. After growing up and engaging the Italian-American community on Long Island, she now teaches wit... Show more

Chris A. Eng is Assistant Professor of English at University of Maryland, College Park. His first book, Extravagant Camp: The Queer Abjection of Asian America, was published by NYU Press in the Sexual Cultures series (February 2025). It received the 2023 CLAGS Fellowship Award. Chris’s research has also appeared in such venues as American Quarterly, GLQ, Journal of Asian American Studies, Lateral, MELUS, and Theatre Journal. His 2020 article received an honorable mention for the Crompton-Noll Article Prize, awarded jointly by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association and the Queer/Trans Caucus of the American Studies Association. His work has also been recognized by the Institute for Citizens & Scholars through a Career Enhancement Fellowship and by the WashU Graduate Student Senate through an Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award. In 2023, he received the Early Career Achievement Award from the Association for Asian American Studies.

Chris A. Eng is Assistant Professor of English at University of Maryland, College Park. His first book, Extravagant Camp: The Queer Abjection of Asian America, was published by NYU Press in the Sexual Cultures series (February 2025). It received the ... Show more

I am a systems thinker, AI governance practitioner, and founder of the Regen AI Institute, where I develop system-level approaches to Responsible and Safe AI. My work focuses on the intersection of human cognition, organizational decision-making, and artificial intelligence, with the goal of designing AI systems that remain stable, trustworthy, and resilient at scale.
My background spans enterprise transformation, data-driven decision systems, and AI deployment in complex organizational and regulated environments. Through hands-on work with large-scale AI and automation initiatives, I observed that many AI failures do not originate from technical limitations, but from misalignment between human incentives, institutional decision structures, and machine intelligence.
I am the originator of the Cognitive Alignment framework, which reframes Responsible AI as a coordination challenge across human, organizational, and machine cognition rather than a purely ethical or compliance-driven exercise. My research draws on systems theory, cognitive science, and cybernetics, and is applied to AI governance, risk management, and human–AI collaboration.
I publish and speak on Cognitive Alignment, AI governance, and the emerging Cognitive Economy, with a focus on translating Responsible AI principles into operational practice. My work aims to help organizations design AI systems that support high-quality decision-making under complexity, rather than amplify systemic risk.

I am a systems thinker, AI governance practitioner, and founder of the Regen AI Institute, where I develop system-level approaches to Responsible and Safe AI. My work focuses on the intersection of human cognition, organizational decision-making, and... Show more

Abdouramane Issoufa est un leader scout et acteur communautaire engagé sur les questions de droits numériques, de cybersécurité et de lutte contre la désinformation dans les pays du Sahel. Il est coordinateur régional des Cyber-Gardiens pour le projet Laafi-Kurabi, couvrant le Mali, le Niger et le Burkina Faso, et chef d’équipe du projet Digitalise Youth Niger, une initiative portée par des jeunes pour promouvoir un usage responsable et sécurisé du numérique. Son travail repose sur des approches de terrain, centrées sur les langues locales, l’implication des jeunes et l’adaptation aux réalités des communautés rurales et périurbaines.

Abdouramane Issoufa est un leader scout et acteur communautaire engagé sur les questions de droits numériques, de cybersécurité et de lutte contre la désinformation dans les pays du Sahel. Il est coordinateur régional des Cyber-Gardiens pour le proje... Show more

Chad Shomura is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Denver. His research interests include political thought, affect, biopolitics, new materialism, and ecology. His recent publications are in Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism, Theory & Event, American Quarterly, and Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature and Culture. Chad's current book project, A Life Otherwise, examines minor assemblies of life that upset the good life. His website is chadshomura.com

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Michelle N. Huang is assistant professor of English and Asian American Studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of Racial Beings: Experiments in Asian American New Materialisms (Duke, 2026). Her film essay, INHUMAN FIGURES: Robots, Clones, and Aliens, can be viewed online at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center website.

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I am a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at the University of Minnesota, with minors in Race, Indigeneity, Disability, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (RIDGS) and American Indian and Indigenous Studies.

"Messin’ Wid Paradise: The Kalihi-verse as Oceanic Homeplace In and Beyond the City with No Pity" is my dissertation, based on five years of ethnographic and autoethnographic research with young adults from Kalihi—many of whom, like me, came of age in the 1990s and 2000s amid post-plantation restructuring, racialized policing, and education systems shaped by settler and carceral logics. The everyday cultural practices of my interlocutors and I are central to my work, highlighting stories of belonging amid intersecting oppressions in Hawaiʻi. From Kalihi’s streets to theatre stages, pau hana talk stories, and Kakaʻako co-working sessions, I have listened to immigrant, second-generation, and Kānaka Maoli voices—many now navigating adulthood in a Hawaiʻi marked by housing crises and soaring living costs. As a second-generation Filipina returning to Kalihi, my research is a critical reckoning with my own place within these stories and structures. Framed by Critical Youth Studies, Women of Color and Indigenous Feminisms, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, and Asian Settler Colonialism Studies, I position the Kalihi-verse as an Oceanic multiverse where my interlocutors and I forge belonging and resist erasure across both our youth and young adulthood.

I am a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at the University of Minnesota, with minors in Race, Indigeneity, Disability, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (RIDGS) and American Indian and Indigenous Studies. "Messin’ Wid Paradise: The Kalihi-verse as O... Show more

Madeline Anderson is the author of Girl Dad and an entrepreneur. She has a passion for neuroscience, psychology, writing, and speaking. She is the daughter of a Girl Dad and spent years interviewing a wide array of fathers and daughters to write her heartfelt book on how to be the best father to a daughter. Madeline graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a degree in Business Economics.

Madeline Anderson is the author of Girl Dad and an entrepreneur. She has a passion for neuroscience, psychology, writing, and speaking. She is the daughter of a Girl Dad and spent years interviewing a wide array of fathers and daughters to write her ... Show more

Katie Masano Hill is a fifth-generation Japanese American (Gosei) from Lafayette, Indiana. She graduated from Valparaiso University with a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Museum Studies at the University of Oklahoma, specializing in historical preservation and cultural heritage.
Her thesis focuses on the administration of the Tule Lake Segregation Center and examines how archival records from the War Relocation Authority (1942–1946) reflect systems of social control, psychological stress, and resilience. Through qualitative content analysis, her research explores governance, living conditions, and mental health among Japanese Americans unjustly incarcerated during World War II. Her goal is to inform trauma-informed museum interpretation that balances historical accuracy with empathy and respect for survivors’ experiences.
Katie’s passion for advocacy is deeply rooted in her background in social work and her family’s history of incarceration. Her great-grandparents were forcibly removed from their homes and incarcerated at Heart Mountain, Tule Lake, and Topaz, where they endured harsh conditions but ultimately survived. Her great-uncle, however, died in camp at only 24 years old. His story, and the countless others marked by loss and silence, fuels Katie’s dedication to preserving these histories and educating future generations about civil liberties and justice.
In addition to her policy work, Katie is a copy editor for Tessaku, a project dedicated to preserving oral histories of Japanese American incarceration. Her written work has also been published in Kioku, a Japanese American journal amplifying stories of intergenerational memory and resilience.
Katie also serves on the Wakasa Memorial Committee, which works to honor and preserve the memory of James Wakasa, a Japanese American man shot and killed by a guard at the Topaz concentration camp in 1943. Her involvement reflects her ongoing commitment to truth-telling and memorialization, ensuring that stories are remembered with the dignity they deserve.
As the Norman Y. Mineta Fellow, Katie works with the JACL Policy Team to advocate for policies that uplift the Japanese American and broader Asian American communities. She is honored to carry forward the legacy of her ancestors and is passionate about preserving and sharing their stories to inspire empathy and understanding.

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Federick Ngo is an associate professor in the College of Education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His work focuses on higher education policy, finance, and economics.

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Suiyi Tang is a PhD candidate in American Studies at the University of Southern California where she works on Asian American postwar modernism and the history of cybernetics. She is also the author of the novel American Symphony: Other White Lies (CCM Press 2019).

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John P. Rosa, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of History, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
rosajohn@hawaii.edu
Mobile: (808) 723-1160

EDUCATION

Ph.D., 1999, M.A., 1992, History, University of California, Irvine
B.A., 1990, History, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

POSITIONS HELD

Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, 2015-
Affiliate Faculty, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, UHM, 2019-
Affiliate Faculty, Department of Ethnic Studies, UHM 2016-
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, 2008-2015
Instructor, Social Studies Department, Kamehameha Schools, Kapālama, Honolulu, 2006-2008
Assistant Professor, Asian Pacific American Studies Program, Arizona State University, Tempe, 2000-2006

PUBLICATIONS

Book (Scholarly Monograph):
Local Story: The Massie-Kahahawai Case and the Culture of History. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2014.

Co-edited Journal Volume:
Social Process in Hawai‘i. “Celebrating 100 Years of Local Studies” issue. Co-editor with
Lori Pierce. Vol 46 (December 2020).

Co-authored Electronic Book:
Genz, Joseph H., Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻōpua, Monica C. LaBriola, Alexander Mawyer, Elicita N. Morei, and
John P. Rosa. Militarism and Nuclear Testing in the Pacific. Volume 1 of Teaching Oceania Series,
edited by Monica LaBriola. Honolulu: Center for Pacific Islands Studies,
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, 2019. See http://hdl.handle.net/10125/42430

Refereed Journal Articles and Essays (recent):
“Ambling Time,” in Tom Gammarino, Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada, D. Keali‘i MacKenzie, and Lyz Soto, eds.,
Snaring New Suns: Speculative Works from Hawai‘i and Beyond special issue of Bamboo Ridge: Journal of Hawai‘i Literature and Arts. Vol. 122 (2022): 124-130.
“Small Numbers / Big City: Innovative Presentations of Pacific Islander Art and Culture in Phoenix,
Arizona,” AAPI Nexus: Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders: Policy, Practice and Community.
Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring 2007): 59-77.

Book manuscript in progress:
Hawai‘i 1959. (This second book project focuses on three phenomena in 1959 when the islands: achieved statehood; saw the use of commercial jets for the first time; witnessed the completion of Ala Moana Shopping Center to bring visitors to Hawaiʻi. It examines the transition from territory to state, the rapid growth of the tourism industry, and the expansion of a consumer economy intertwined with a construction boom in retail and housing developments.)

Invited Book Chapters (recent):
“‘Eh! Where You From?’: Questions of Place, Race, and Identity in Contemporary Hawai‘i,” in Camilla Fojas, Rudy Guevarra, and Nitasha Sharma, eds. Beyond Ethnicity: New Politics of Race in
Hawai’i. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018.
“Asians, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in Hawai‘i: Place, People, Culture” in David K. Yoo and
Eiichiro Azuma, eds. Oxford Handbook of Asian American History. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2015.

RECOGNITIONS / FELLOWSHIPS / AWARDS / GRANTS

Jerry H. Bentley World History Faculty Award, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, College of Arts, Languages & Literatures, 2022-2023. $3250.
Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa College of Arts & Humanities, 2017. $1000 merit award.
Associated Students of ASU Centennial Professorship, 2005-2006. $5,000 merit award and $5,000 grant for project Voices from Oceania: The Pacific at Your Door.

John P. Rosa, PhD Associate Professor Department of History, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa rosajohn@hawaii.edu Mobile: (808) 723-1160 EDUCATION Ph.D., 1999, M.A., 1992, History, University of California, Irvine B.A., 1990, History, Nor... Show more