As part of Boston University's 3rd Israel Apartheid Week, we will be having an event on the relationship of colonial settler occupation in Native America, Hawaii and Palestine. Professor Kauanui will talk on the nature and effects of colonization on indigenous peoples, including the Wampanoag, who lived in the area BU now occupies.
J. Kēhaulani Kauanui is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Anthropology at Wesleyan. She earned her PhD in History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2000. She earned her B.A. (Honors) in Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley in 1992.
Professor Kauanui has held fellowships from the School of Advanced Research (formerly the School of American Research), the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Smithsonian Institution, the Rockefeller Archives Center, National Science Foundation, Fulbright (Maori Studies, University of Auckland), and the Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies at the University of Canterbury.
Kauanui’s first book is Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity (Duke University Press, 2008). Her second book project (in-progress), Thy Kingdom Come? The Paradox of Hawaiian Sovereignty, is a critical study on gender and sexual politics and the question of Hawaiian indigeneity in relation to state-centered Hawaiian nationalism.
Her essays appear in the following edited books: Beyond the Frame: Women of Color and Visual Representation, Eds. Neferti Tadiar, and Angela Y. Davis; and Asian American Studies After Critical Mass, Ed. Kent Ono. Her work also appears in the following journals: South Atlantic Quarterly, American Studies, Comparative American Studies, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, American Indian Quarterly, Amerasia Journal, Mississippi Review, The Contemporary Pacific, The Hawaiian Journal of History, `Oiwi: Native Hawaiian Journal, and Social Text. Kauanui has also written on Hawaiian sovereignty politics for the Guardian UK, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Honolulu Advertiser, and The Honolulu Weekly.
There are two other Israel Apartheid events at BU. For more information, visit http://www.wherevent.com/detail/sjp-fiu-iaw-native-america-and-palestine-indigeneity-and-settler-colonialism
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