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Congratulations to Kelli Nakamura for publication in the Pacific Historical Review

Congratulations to Dr. Kelli Y. Nakamura* for her latest publication in the Pacific Historical Review by the University of California Press. Dr. Nakamura’s article, “A ‘Revenge Bound Orgy’: The Conflict between Hawai‘i’s Local and Military Cultures in the 1945 Damon Tract Riot,” offers an important insight into a strategically “forgotten” event and gives voice to local women and others who were impacted by this historic event.

The Damon Tract riot offers important insight into the development of the unique local and military culture in Hawai‘i and longstanding hostilities between servicemen and locals that culminated in one of the largest postwar military uprisings on American soil. Despite this distinction and the concern it generated from local, federal, and military officials, scholars have not carefully examined the riot itself. This oversight was in part due to local and national events and interests as the media operated within a highly militarized state even in the postwar period. Thus, military and business leaders, as well as political supporters of statehood, played an important role in the postwar period in the historical erasure of events like the Damon Tract riot that challenged the emerging victory culture.

*Dr. Kelli Nakamura is an associate professor of history and alumna of the Wo Learning Champions. She is a published author on Japanese American history, women’s studies, and other topics. Dr. Nakamura’s article is available in the current issue of the Pacific Historical Review.

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Publication: Ka Wā Ma Hope: the Future is in Back of Us

The Shared Services Center proudly presents its inaugural publication, Ka Wā Ma Hope: the Future is in Back of Us. This publication began with a desire to share the academic research of the Title III Fellowship recipients with the Kapi‘olani Community College community. After securing a diversity grant from the UH Office of Student Equity, Excellence, and Diversity (SEED) IDEAS Award program, the Shared Services Center hosted the inaugural symposium focusing on current Native Hawaiian student success strategies, followed by a panel discussion on juggling graduate education while working full-time.

Ka Wā Ma Hope: the Future is in Back of Us, Volume 1 Issue 1 (2020). Cover design by Sara Kim.

Introduction & Acknowledgements

Introduction

Acknowledgements by Sara Kim, creator, Ka Wā Ma Hope symposium & journal

Table of Contents

Articles by Title III Fellowship Featured Authors

Special Dedication

Dedication by Sara Kim, creator, Ka Wā Ma Hope symposium & journal

Editor: Dr. Kelli Nakamura, assistant professor of History, Kapi‘olani Community College

This publication was funded by the UH SEED Office Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access, and Success (IDEAS) Award.

Limited print copies are available upon request. Please send an e-mail to kccgo@hawaii.edu with the subject “Publication request” to reserve your copy.

Congratulations to Kelli Nakamura for Prestigious Historian Award

Kelli Nakamura (Assistant Professor, History) was selected as the recipient of the 2018 Judith Lee Ridge Prize from the Western Association of Women Historians (“WAWH”). Nakamura was selected among finalists for the category for the best article in the field of history and is one of just eight winners for WAWH awards this year. Nakamura joins the ranks of top women historians recognized by WAWH, “the largest of the regional women’s historical associations in the United States.”

Nakamura’s article, Into the Dark Cold I Go, the Rain Gently Falling, uncovers an untold story of incarceration of Japanese internees inHawai‘i. The article was originally published in the Pacific Historical Review and subsequently recommended for consideration for the WAWH’s award. The abstract reads,

During World War II, authorities arrested and incarcerated Japanese on the island of Hawai‘i due to racist fears. Many scholars skim over the details of the incarceration of residents of Hawai‘i island and other islands as part of the larger narrative of O‘ahu incarceration, where authorities held Japanese at sites like Sand Island and Honouliuli. However, these lives and experiences are meaningful to understanding the incarceration experience in Hawai‘i and expanding the focus beyond O‘ahu to encompass the neighbor islands and rural areas—two areas still in need of study in order to understand the history of Hawai‘i’s Japanese.

Nakamura is a current member of the Wo Learning Champions and has been teaching history at Kapiolani Community College since 2006.

Bob Franco to be Panel Discussant and Author for Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO)

Bob Franco will be featured on a panel of experts on social anthropology in Oceania. Franco’s prior research and publications are based on his anthropological field work in Samoa and other parts of the Pacific. 

Congratulations to Bob Franco (Professor of Anthropology and Director, Office for Institutional Effectiveness) for being invited as a panel discussant for an upcoming Working Session at the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO). This event will bring together experts on issues in Oceania in New Orleans from January 31 to February 3, 2018.

Franco will participate in a session entitled “Pacific Youth, Pacific Futures,” organized by Dr. Helen Lee, Department of Social Inquiry, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne Australia.

Dr. Lee was familiar with Franco’s 1980-1990 publications on Samoan diaspora, multi-locality, youth and cultural adaptation, and invited him to attend the 2017 “Pacific Youth, Pacific Futures” working session at the ASAO meeting in Kaua’i in 2017.

The 2018 working session presentations fall into several broad thematic areas, with gender being an overarching theme:
– youth participation and empowerment;
– livelihoods and employment
– migration and identity; rural/urban differences
– the position of youth in family and community;
– generational issues and temporality, eg. future facing issues (climate change, events like elections, digital technologies); and past facing issues (cultural trauma, culture and tradition).
– negotiating responsibilities versus desires; and
– mental health and well-being, and education

Franco has also been invited to author the closing chapter in an edited volume that will serve as a “generation-later” followup to the ASAO monograph on “Adolescence in Pacific Island Societies (Herdt and Leaviit, 1998).

Ask Bob about his research and other exciting work in the Pacific by stopping by in Ohia 101, or sending him a note at bfranco@hawaii.edu.