He mana ko ka ʻike kūliʻu 

Profound knowledge has power 

EDUCATION 

Ph.D. American Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Spring 2024. Dissertation Title: “Kuʻu Home O Keaukaha: He Lei Moʻolelo No Ka ʻĀina Aloha (Keaukaha, My Home: A Lei Of Stories For Beloved Lands)/Advisor: Dr. Brandy Nālani McDougall”

Graduate Certificate, Museum Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, May 2023.

Graduate Certificate, Nonprofit Management, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, May 2021.

M.A. Anthropology, Museums and Heritage Studies track, University of Denver, November 2015. Thesis title: “Curating Aliʻi Collections: Responsibility, Sensibility, and Contextualization in Hawaiʻi-based Museums/Advisor: Dr. Christina Kreps.”  

B.A. Anthropology and Hawaiian Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, May 2013. Graduated with high honors.

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS 

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian, Associate Curator of Native Hawaiian History and Culture, 2023-Present. 

University of California, History of Art & Visual Culture Department, President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2023-2025. Postdoc declined. 

PUBLICATIONS 

Edited Volumes 

Forthcoming, Libraries, Archives, and Museums in Oceania. Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies. 

Refereed Journal Articles 

Forthcoming, Ingrid Ahlgren, Sylvia Cockburn, Halena Kapuni-Reynolds, and Maggie Wander. “Curating Pacific Art in the United States: A Roundtable Discussion.” Pacific Arts.  

2018 “Navigating Through The Oceanic Collection at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.” Denver Museum of Nature & Science Annals 7: 1-139.

2017 “Moʻokūʻauhau (Genealogies) of Care: Curating Aliʻi Collections at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum.” Studies in Arts and Humanities 3(2): 84-108. 

Book Chapters 

Forthcoming, Halena Kapuni-Reynolds, Noelle MKY Kahanu, Karen Kosasa, Amy Lonetree, Ben Garcia. “Seeding Authority: A Conversation on Museum Decolonization in Hawaiʻi and Beyond.” In The Routledge Handbook of Co-creation and Collaboration: Museums, Heritage and the Arts. Edited by Anna Edmunson and Maya Haviland. London: Routledge. 

2024 Halena Kapuni-Reynolds, Kamalu du Preez, Sarah Kuaiwa. “On Language, Access, and Practitioners: Beginning A Conversation on Decolonizing and Indigenizing the Care of Kapa Collections at the Bishop Museum.” In Collections Management as Critical Museum Practice,  edited by Cara Krmpotih and Alice Stevenson, 235-250. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. 

2024 Noelle MKY Kahanu and Halena Kapuni-Reynolds. “Native Hawaiians and the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum: Historical Reckoning, Truth-telling, and Healing.” In U.S. Museum History and the Politics of Interpretation: Never Neutral, edited by Laura Schiavo, 245-263. London: Routledge.

2019 Halena Kapuni-Reynolds and Wendy Mapuana Waipā. “Nā Pana Kaulana o Keaukaha (The Storied Places of Keaukaha).” In Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawaiʻi. Edited by Vernadette Gonzalvez and Hokulani ʻAikau. Durham: Duke University Press. 

2017 “Ka Huakaʻi ma Kololako (The Journal in Colorado): Reflections of a Hawaiian’s DU Experience.” In Many Voices, One DU, edited by LP Picard, pp. 39-50, Denver: University of Denver.

Book/Exhibit/Event Reviews

2023 Event review, “E Hō Mai Ka ʻIke: Celebrating the Launch of the Edith Kanakaʻole Quarter, Hilo, Hawaiʻi, May 5–6, 2023.” Pacific Arts 23 (1): 155-164. 

2023 Book review, Material Approaches to Polynesian Barkcloth: Cloth, Collections, Communities. Museum Anthropology 46 (2): 117-118. 

2022 Book review,  Hei Taonga mā ngā Uri Whakatipu | Treasures for the Rising Generation: The Dominion Museum Ethnological Expeditions 1919–1923. Journal of Pacific History 58(2): 212-214 . 

2021 Exhibit review,  “Nā Māla: Layered Landscapes of Kona Coffee Heritage.” Pacific Arts 20, 1 (2021): 153-158. 

2020 Book review, Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism. Hypatia Reviews Online (2020).  

2020 Book review of Ē Luku Wale Ē: Devastation Upon Devastation. The Contemporary Pacific 32 (1): 282-284. 

Manuscripts in Preparation 

Forthcoming, Halena Kapuni-Reynolds, Noah Dolim, Mikiʻala Pescaia, Keola Awong. “Bridging Community, Culture, And Stewardship: A Conversation With Native Hawaiian Women Working In Hawaiʻi’s National Parks.” In Indigenous Environmental Stewardship and Settler Colonial Borderlands. Edited by Rani-Henrik Andersson, Janne Lahti, and Sami Lakomӓki. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 

Forthcoming, “Navigating Museum Currents and Futures: Lessons From Oceania.” Center for the Future of Museums. 

Web-Based Publications 

2023 “Film For Thought: JOIN OR DIE (HIFF43).” Hawaiʻi International Film Festival, October 5, https://hiff.org/film-for-thought-join-or-die-hiff43/

2019 “Some Honest ‘Owyheean’ Thoughts on This Year’s Conference.” Western Museums Association, March 11 https://hiff.org/film-for-thought-join-or-die-hiff43/. 

Other Publications 

2022 “My refuge is my ancestors. An Incantation.” Poem in Puʻuhonua, a zine created in conjunction with the Puʻuhonua exhibit (March 12 - July 2, 2022) at the Donkey Mill Art Center. 

2022 Katherine Achacoso, Patricia (Trish) Tupou, and Halena Kapuni-Reynolds. “Saltwater Archives: Transoceanic Feminist Mediations on Embodied Memories and Repertoires of Knowledge.” Amerasia Journal 48 (2): 175-79. 

2020 Lokelani Brandt, Nicole Ishihara, and Halena Kapuni-Reynolds. “A Cultural Impact Assessment for the Department of 

Water Supply Lālāmilo 10MG Reservoir.” Cultural impact assessment prepared for Geometrician Associates by ASM Affiliates-Hilo 

Office. 

2020 Lokelani Brandt and Halena Kapuni-Reynolds. “A Cultural Impact Assessment of the Proposed Single-Family 

Development of the Holcomb Family Trust Parcel.” Cultural impact assessment prepared for Carlsmith Ball, LLP by ASM Affiliates

Hilo Office. 

2020 Lokelani Brandt and Halena Kapuni-Reynolds. “A Ka Paʻakai O Ka ʻĀina Analysis for the Longroad Energy 

Management, LLC. Mahi Solar Facility.” Ka Paʻakai o ka ʻĀina report prepared for Longroad Energy Management, LLC by ASM 

Affiliates—Hilo Office. 

2018 “Moʻolelo: Or Why We (The International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management, Kumulau Foundation, and 

Niuliʻi Foundation) Think Indigenous Film is Serious Stuff.” Essay co-written with Mervyn L. Tano. International Institute for 

Indigenous Resource Management. 

2018 ʻIolani Kaʻuhane, Halena Kapuni-Reynolds, Momi Wheeler, Kepoʻo Keliʻipaʻakaua, Kelley Uyeoka, Dominique Cordy. 

“Hele ma ke ala Kūpuna, A Summative Report of the 2018 Wahi Kupuna Internship Program.” Summative evaluation prepared for 

Kamehameha Schools – Land Assets Division by Huliauapaʻa. 

2018 “Ka ʻĀina Hoʻopulapula o Keaukaha: Formative Years.” Unpublished manuscript prepared for Kamehameha Schools – East Hawaiʻi Regional Office. 

2017 Kepoʻo Keliʻipaʻakaua, Halena Kapuni-Reynolds, and Dominique Cordy. “ʻO wai o Waiawa (Who is Waiawa?) A Summative Report of the 2017 Wahi Kupuna Internship Program.” Summative evaluation prepared for Kamehameha Schools – Land Assets Division by Huliauapaʻa. 

2016 Lokelani Brandt, Halena Kapuni-Reynolds, Aoloa Santos. “Piʻopiʻo, He ʻĀina Aliʻi Mai Kahiko Mai: Piʻopiʻo, land of the chiefs since ancient times.” Summative evaluation prepared for Kamehameha Schools – Land Assets Division by Huliauapaʻa. 

2014 Kelley Lehuakeaopuna Uyeoka, Momi Wheeler, Liʻulā Mahi, Lokelani Brandt, Halena Kapuni-Reynolds, and Pueo McGuire. “E Nihi Ka Helena I Ka Uka O Puna, Travel carefully in the uplands of Puna: An Ethnohistorical Study of Wao Kele O Puna, Moku o Puna, Hawaiʻi Island.” Report prepared for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs by Kumupaʻa Cultural Resource Consultants, LLC.  

2013 Kelley Lehuakeaopuna Uyeoka, Aoloa Santos, Liʻula Mahi, Ashton Dircks Ah Sam, Uilani Macabio, and Halena Kapuni-Reynolds. “Kohala I Ka Unupaʻa: Ethnohistorical Study.” Report prepared for Kamehameha Schools by Kumupaʻa Cultural Resource Consultants, LLC. 

2014 Mai ka Hale Hōʻikeʻike Mai (Returning to the Museum): Thoughts of a Kanaka Maoli Graduate Student. Society for Hawaiian Archaeology Newsletter, p. 7.

2011 “Hoʻāla: Keaukaha Historical Newspaper Initiative.” A collection of historical Hawaiian language newspaper articles from 1925-1926 that document the early years of the Hawaiian homestead of Keaukaha.

AWARDS & HONORS 

2024 Smithsonian S.T.A.R., National Museum of the American Indian 

2019 Wanda Chin Scholarship, Western Museum Association

2019 Sarah Sohmer Prize in Hawaiian/Pacific History, Phi Alpha Theta 

2018 Nanea Scholarship, Pauahi Foundation. Award declined.

2018 Native American Fellowship Program Travel Award, Peabody Essex Museum 

2018 Student Conference Scholarship, Hawaiʻi Museums Association  

2018-2016, Hawaiʻi Veterans Memorial Fund, Hawaiʻi Community Foundation 

2018-2016, ʻImi Naʻauao Merit-Based Scholarship, Kamehameha Schools

2018-2016, Graduate Assistantship, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa 

2017 American Studies Merit Scholarship, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa 

2017 Student Travel Award, Council for Museum Anthropology 

2017-2016, Rosemary & Nellie Ebrie Fund, Hawaiʻi Community Foundation 

2016 Student Travel Award,  Colorado Wyoming Association of Museums 

2015-2013, Dean’s Scholar, University of Denver 

2013 Most Outstanding Graduating Senior, Anthropology Department, University of Hawaiʻi at 

Hilo

2013-2009, Dean’s list, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo 

2013-2009, Chancellor’s scholar, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 

2023 Māhuahua Ka Lae Research Award, Kamehameha Schools, $50,000, award declined. 

2018 Predoctoral Fellowship, Ford Foundation, $72,000.

2018 University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Interdisciplinary Conference Grant, $2,000. 

2018 University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Student Equity Excellence and Diversity Award, $1,500. 

2018 University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Student Activity & Program Fee Board, $1,700. 

2018 American Studies Association, Chapter Grant, $5,000.  

2015 Native American Fellowship Program, Peabody Essex Museum 

2014 AHSS Research and Travel Grant, University of Denver, $1250. 

INVITED TALKS 

2024 “Museum Decolonization.” Honolulu Museum of Art, April 27. 

2024 “The Role Of Libraries, Museums, And Archives In Engaging Local Communities.” San Jose State University, May 24. 

2023 “Ka Noiʻi ʻĀina: Nā Hiʻohiʻona A Me Nā Kūmole (ʻĀina-Based Research: Some Characteristics and Sources).” Kamehameha Schools, November 29. 

2023 “Honoring The Past & Planning For The Future: Indigenous Perspectives On Library And Information Sciences.” San Jose State University, November 3. 

2023 “Curating Community Through The Arts In Keauhou, Kona, Hawaiʻi: A Talk Story.” University of California–Santa Cruz, October 12. 

2023 “Caring for Indigenous Collections & People – Lessons from Oceania.” ANTH 518, Museum Methods, University of British Columbia, September 26. 

2023 “Huli Kanaka: Generating Critical ʻŌiwi (Indigenous-Hawaiian) Social Theory In A Modern-Colonial World.” University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, September 21. 

2023 “He Moʻolelo No Ke Aukahi Hoʻōla ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi: A Story Regarding The Hawaiian Language Revitalization Movement.” GSS20401: Cultural Revitalization And Community Building, Sophia University, June 28. 

2023 “Huli Kanaka: Generating Critical ʻŌiwi (Indigenous-Hawaiian) Social Theory In A Modern-Colonial World.” Reed College, February 27. 

2022 “No Ke Kaiāulu (For the Community): Life & Organizing in Keaukaha.” Women in Science: Charting our Path, Intersectionality in Conservation, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, March 24.

2021 “Roots and Routes Along Keaukaha’s Seashore: Tidalectic Repertoires Of Place.” The Space Between Oceans: Navigating Asian Settler Responsibilities In Hawaiʻi & Fiji.  Philosophy Department and Office of Equal Opportunity, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, May 7.

2021 “The Exhibition Review Process.” ANTH 612, Indigenous Museum Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, March 31.

2021 “Huakaʻi Hele and Keaukaha.” IAMD-6021, Indigenous and Decolonial Practices, Ontario College of Art & Design, March 9. 

2021 “Curating Aliʻi Collections: Responsibility, Sensibility, and Contextualization in Hawaiʻi-based Museums.” ANTH 612, Indigenous Museum Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, January 27.

2020 “Genealogies of Care at the Lyman Museum and Bishop Museum.” MSTD 6601.13, Issues in Collections Policy: Contemplating “Next Practices,” George Washington University, June 10.

2019 “Ka Wahine Lei ʻUla: Ruth Keʻelikōlani.” University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, February 28. 

2018 “He Moʻolelo No Nā Mea Waiwai Aliʻi.” ʻIolani Palace, May 30. 

CONFERENCE ACTIVITY/PARTICIPATION 

Conference/Symposia/Workshop Organized 

2024 Pacific Island Humanities Network Covening. Pacific Islands Humanities Network, June 7, 9, 11. 

2021 Access: Hawaiʻi Museums Association annual meeting. Hawaiʻi Museums Association, April 16-17. 

2020 Mākau Moʻomeheu: Cultural Competence in Hawaiʻi’s Museums. Hawaiʻi Museum Association in partnership with the Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority, July 11, August 8, August 15, October 17, October 24, November 14, November 28. 

2019 Indigenous Approaches to Material Culture. Pre-conference workshop, American Studies Association Meeting, November 7-10. 

2019 Interpreting Objects: A Brief Introduction & Talk Story Workshop. Pre-conference, workshop, Hawaiʻi Museums Association, April 27. 

2019 ʻAuʻa. Two roundtable sessions featuring Native Hawaiian artists and scholars. March 30. 

2018 Seeding Authority: A Symposium on Decolonizing the Museum. November 9 – 10.

2018 (Re)Mapping Indigenous and Settler Geographies in the Pacific Conference, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, October 18 – 19. 

Panels Organized 

2022 “Black Museum Anthropology: A Conversation Organized by the Association of Black Anthropologists and the Council for Museum Anthropology.” Council for Museum Anthropology, August 25. 

2022 Organizer, “He Hōʻike (A Showcase): Museum Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.” Council For Museum Anthropology Virtual Symposium, March  25. 

2020 “To Museums, With Love: Letters of Hope, Pain, and Transformation by Indigenous Museum Practitioners.” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, conference cancelled due to COVID-19. 

2020 “Huliāmahi: Cherishing the Land and Caring for Our Communities as Radical Curatorial Praxis.” Beyond Space: A Gathering of Care in Strange Times, Aboriginal Curatorial Collective, October 30. 

2020 “Archaeological Collections: He Kāhea i ka Hana (A Call to Action),” Society for Hawaiian Archaeology Conference, October 10. 

2019 “Disciplinary Fissures: Generative Praxis Within the Changing Climate of Anthropology.” American Anthropological Association conference, Vancouver, November 20-24. 

2019 “Indigenous Perspectives on Museum Diversity.” Western Museum Association meeting, October 4-7.

2017 “The Wahi Kupuna Internship Program: Nurturing New Generations of Kanaka ʻŌiwi Cultural Resource Management Professionals.”  West Maui Conference on Pacific Peoples and their Environments, October 13-14.

2016 “Challenging and Transforming Collections Care, Management, and Interpretation: Indigenous Curation in Museums.” Colorado-Wyoming Association of Museums Conference, April 27-May 1.

Panels Moderated 

2023 “Living Cultures, Living Collections: Bishop Museum’s Pacific Pipeline.” Western Museums Association Meeting, October 5-8. 

2019 “Seekers of Knowledge: Hawaiian Perspectives on Science and Culture.” Hawaiʻi Museum Association Meeting, April 11-12. 

2018 “Decolonizing Practices at the San Diego Museum of Man.” Seeding Authority: A Symposium on Decolonizing the Museum, November 9-10.

2018 “E Hoʻi ka Uʻi o Mānoa.” Panel at the (Re)Mapping Indigenous and Settler Geographies in the Pacific Conference, October 18-19. 

2018 “Shared Authority: Community Input in Exhibitions, Programs and Interpretation.” Hawaiʻi Museum Association Conference, May 4-5. 

Papers Presented 

2022 “He Piko no ke Kaiāulu, A Center for the Community: (Re)envisioning a Keaukaha Cultural Center.” Council for Museum Anthropology Virtual Symposium, March 25-26. 

2021 “Place to Place, Space to Space: Huakaʻi Hele as Decolonial Praxis and the Tidalectic Repertoires of Place.” Vā Moana: Space and Relationality in Pacific Thought and Identity, November 23-24. 

2021 “E Huakaʻi a Lewa i ka ʻĀina Aloha.” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Meeting, June 14-21.  

2021 “Roots and Routes along Keaukaha’s Seashore: Tidalectic Repertoires of Place.” Association for Asian American Studies Meeting, April 9-13.

2019 “Huli Kanaka: Towards a Hawaiian Approach to Anthropology.” American Anthropological Association Meeting, November 20-24.

2019 “Queries on Hawaiian Materiality and Sensory Engagement with Objects.” Indigenous Approaches to Material Culture Workshop, American Studies Association Meeting, November 7-10. 

2019 “He Kini, He Mano, He Lehu: Indigenous Reflections on Museum Diversity.” Western Museum Association Meeting, October 4-7. 

2019 “Huli Kanaka: Hawaiian Engagements With Anthropology.” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Conference, June 27-29. 

2019 “Converging Currents: Keaukaha as Place and Metaphor.” Paper presented at Mai Ki Te Ao Indigenous Doctoral Gathering, June 20-22. 

2019 “Nā Kāhili Kū: Thinking Through Objects and their Relations.” Pre-conference workshop, Hawaiʻi Museums Association, held at the Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives, April 24.

2019 “Moʻokūʻauhau (Genealogies) of Care and Practice: Curating Aliʻi Collections at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum.” Hawaiʻi Museum Association Conference, April 11-12. 

2019 “Converging Currents: Keaukaha as Place and Metaphor.” Blue Pacific: Reclaiming Oceania Futures Conference, March 15-16. 

2019 “He Kālailai Keka o ka Moʻolelo no ko Luka Keʻelikōlani Wā Kamaliʻi (A Gendered Analysis of Ruth Keʻelikōlani's 

Childhood).” Hawaiʻi Regional Meeting of the Phi Alpha Theta, March 9. 

2018 “Huliauapaʻa: (Re)Mapping the Site(s) of Cultural Resource Management.” (Re)Mapping Indigenous and Settler Geographies in the Pacific Conference, October 18-19. 

2018 “Ka Hale Hōʻikeʻike: A Perspective on Museums.” Reclaiming our Spaces: Visualizing and Realizing Diversity in the Museum of the Future, October 9. 

2018 “Nā Pana Kaulana o Keaukaha. The Storied Places of Keaukaha.” Pīkoʻokoʻo Conference, October  5-6.  

2017 “Moʻokūʻauhau (Genealogies) of People and Practice: Indigenous Curation and the Care of Kanaka ʻŌiwi Collections at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum.” American Anthropological Association Meeting, November 29 - December 3.

2017 “Huli Kanaka: Kalo Epistemology and Kanaka ʻŌiwi Approaches to Anthropology.” Native Hawaiian Student Services (NHSS) LHRC Student Conference, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, September 22-23.

2017 “He Mele Hoʻomanaʻo o ka Huakaʻi Loa (A Song to Remember my Travels): Mele as Narrative and Research Method.” Center for Pacific Island Studies Student Conference, March 23-24. 

2017 “Curating Aliʻi Collections: Responsibility, Sensibility and Contextualization in Hawaiʻi-Based Museums.” 16th East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference, February 16-18. 

2014 “Curating Aliʻi Heritage: Responsibility and Sensibility in Museums and Archaeology.” Society for Hawaiian Archaeology Conference, Hilo, Hawaiʻi, October 10-12. 

2014 “Records, Research, and Recover: The Lei Niho Palaoa and Pōhaku Kuʻi ʻAi of the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH).” Smithsonian Institute in Museum Anthropology Symposium, July 17.

2014 “Hoʻāla Keaukaha: Reawakening the Voices of the Ancestors through Historical Hawaiian Language Newspaper Scholarship.”University of Denver Graduate Research and Performance Summit. February 7. 

2012 “The Kamehameha Schools Collections Management Practicum.” Society for Hawaiian Archaeology Conference, October 19-21. 

2011 “Kahuwai or Kahuʻai? Tending to the Stories of the Past through Place Names.” Society for Hawaiian Archaeology conference, October 22.

Discussant 

2024 “Hawaiian Futurisms.” Pacific Arts Association Symposium, June 15. 

2024 “Reframing Indigenous Community Collections In Stewardship.” Museums Alaska, March 8.  

2023 “Transmutable Practices of Care in Museums.” American Anthropological Association Meeting, November 15-19. 

2023 “Re(Centering) The Conversation: From Decolonization To Indigenization.” Western Museums Association Meeting, October 5-8. 

2022 “Mentorship: Best Practices And Indigenous Notions Of Care.” Western Museums Association Meeting, October 6-9. 

2021 “The Role of Indigenous Art and Artists in the Creation and Representation of Memory and Place: Whose Memories and Who Decides?,” International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management Roundtable, June 30. 

2021 “Graduates Building Language Capacity and Expanding into New Domains.” He ʻŌlelo Ola [International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation]. University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, March 6.

CAMPUS TALKS 

2021 “The Hawaiʻi Museums Association: Challenges and Opportunities.” AMST 683, Museums: Theory, History, Practice. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, September 8.  

2021 “Huli Kanaka Theory.” ANTH 419, Indigenous Anthropology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, August 31.

2021 “Hawaiʻi Museums, Keaukaha, and Memory.” AMST 635, Public History and Commemoration. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, March 24. 

2020 “Roots and Routes along Keaukaha’s Seashore: Tidalectic Repertoires of Place.” Center for Biographical Research Brown Bag Biography series, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, October 22.

2018 “(Re)Mapping Hawaiʻi: The Wahi Kupuna Internship Program.” PACS 202, Pacific Islands Movement and Migration, University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa,  February 1. 

2017 “Performance, Narrative, and Epistemology: Kanaka ʻŌiwi Approaches to the Study of Culture.” American Studies Graduate Research Colloquium, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, May 5.  

2017 “Cultural Contextualization at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum.” AMST 685, Museums and Education, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, April 12. 

2017 “The Cold War in Latin America.” Guest lecture given in AMST 150, America and the World, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, March 22. 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE 

University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo

Ethics and Cultural Diversity (Fall, 1 Semester)

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa 

Graduate Assistant, America And The World (Fall 2016)

University of Denver 

Graduate Assistant, Native North America (Fall 2014) 

Huliauapaʻa 

Program Instructor, Wahi Kūpuna Internship Program (Summer 2015-2016)

MUSEUM EXPERIENCE 

2022-2020, Co-organizer, Weaving a Net(work) of Care for Oceanic Collections: A Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Museum-Institute. Museum Studies Graduate Certificate Program, Department of American Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and East-West Center. January 24 - July 29. 

2022-2017, Graduate Assistant, Museum Studies Graduate Certificate Program, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. 

2018 Member, Cultural Advisory Group, ʻIolani Palace.

2018 Cultural Protocol Consultant, Honolulu Museum of Art. 

2016 Oceanic Collection Intern, Denver Museum of Nature & Science. 

2015 Educational Fellow in Gallery Learning and Programs, Peabody Essex Museum.  

2015-2014, Exhibit Designer, University of Denver Museum of Anthropology. 

2014, Summer Institute for Museum Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. 

2014 Volunteer, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. 

2014-2013, NAGPRA Project Assistant, University of Denver Museum of Anthropology. 

 2013-2011, Collections Intern, Kamehameha Schools Collections Management Practicum, Kamehameha Schools Cultural Resource Division, Hawaiʻi Community College, and T.S. Dye & Colleagues, Hilo, Hawaiʻi. 

2013 Collections Intern, Kalaupapa National Historical Park. 

2013 Collections Intern, Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park. 

2013 Collections Intern, History Department, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo. 

2012 Volunteer, Lyman House Memorial Museum

SERVICE TO PROFESSION 

Advisory Board Member, East Hawaiʻi Cultural Center, present-2024. 

Board Member, Hawaiʻi Council For The Humanities, present-2024. 

Project Advisor, Gathering Resources and Growing Capacity: Museums Working Together in Hawaiʻi, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, present-2023. 

Editorial Board, Pacific Arts, present-2023. 

Site Planning Committee, American Studies Association Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, 2019-2020.

Vice President, Hawaiʻi American Studies Association, present-2018.  

Board Member, International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management, present-2016. 

Board Member, Council for Museum Anthropology, 2023-2021.   

Board Member, Hawaiʻi Museums Association, 2021-2020.  

DEPARTMENT/UNIVERSITY SERVICE 

Graduate Student Representative, Department of American Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 2019-2018. 

Member, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Wayfinding Markers Committee, 2022-2021. 

COMMUNITY SERVICE

2022 “Nā Pūlama Kaiaulu – Ka Waiwai o Loko” (Cherished Communities – The Wealth Within).” Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives, February 2. 

2021 “Founding of Keaukaha Hawaiian Homestead.” Podcast, Native Stories, https://nativestories.org/founding-of-keaukaha-hawaiian-homestead/

2019 “Ka Wahine Lei ʻUla: Ruth Keʻelikōlani.” Ruth Keʻelikōlani Civic Club, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, February 9. 

2018 “The 2018 Wahi Kupuna Internship Program in Keʻei, South Kona.” Huliauapaʻa, Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historic Park, August 2. 

2017 “The Establishment of the Keaukaha Homestead Community in 1924.” Presented to the Keaukaha Community Association, Hilo, Hawaiʻi, May 17. 

2015 “From Hawaiʻi to the East Coast: Objects, People, and History.” Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, July 29 and August 1.

2015 “Curating Aliʻi Heritage: Responsibility, Sensibility, and Contextualization in Hawaiʻi-Based Museums. Piʻilani Hawaiian Civic Club of Colorado, November 1. 

2015 Discussant for the film “Ahupuaʻa,” Kumulau Foundation and the International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management, September 9.   

2015 “Mauna Kea and the Ten Meter Telescope.” Piʻilani Hawaiian Civic Club of Colorado, April 1. 

2014 “Hoʻāla Keaukaha: Reawakening the Voices of the Ancestors through Historical Hawaiian Language Newspaper Scholarship.” Piʻilani Hawaiian Civic Club of Colorado, April 19. 

TEACHING AREAS 

Ethics and Cultural Diversity

Indigenous Museum Studies

Museum Anthropology 

Hawaiian Anthropology

Material Culture Research 

Hawaiian Archival Research 

Art and Anthropology 

LANGUAGES 

English, fluent. 

Hawaiian, fluent.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS 

Pacific Island Humanities Network, 2024-2023

Hawaiʻi American Studies Association, Present-2016  

American Studies Association, 2020-2016

Association of Hawaiʻi Archivists, 2016-2018  

American Anthropological Association, 2020-2013

Society for Hawaiian Archaeology, 2014-2011