GRADUATES OF THE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
 
Keith Camacho
History, PhD Program
Capstone Project: "Native Cultural Studies in the Pacific Islands"
Fall 2000 Graduate

Melisa Casumbal
Asian Studies/Political Science, MA Program
Capstone Project: " 'Filipinizing' Culture, Militarizing Development: Music, Time, War, Mindanao"
Spring 2004 Graduate

Pandit Chanrochanakit
Political Science, PhD Program
Capstone Project: "The Contemporary Artwork of Navin Rawanchaikul"
Spring 2003 Graduate

Mike Choi
English, MA Program
Capstone Project: "Martial(ed) Moments"
Fall 2001 Graduate
 
Diem Dangers
Southeast Asian Studies, MA Program
Capstone Project: "The Sacred Aloha Shirt"
Fall 2000 Graduate

Enkhtsegtseg Dagva
Public Administration, MA Program
Capstone Project: "Nationalism and Tourism in Mongolia: Western Reflections of Tourist Discourse in Mongolia"
Fall 2005 Graduate

Heather Diamond
American Studies, PhD Program
Capstone Project: "Resuscitating Tradition: Folk Arts Apprenticeship Programs and the Business of Representing Culture"
Fall 2000 Graduate

Greg Dvorak
Pacific Islands Studies, MA Program
Capstone Project: "Mission Control: Reading Between the Technicolor Fantasies of the Kwajalein Atoll Telephone Directory"
Spring 2004 Graduate

Bich Ngoc Do
American Studies, MA program
Capstone Project: "Nostalgia or Illusion? Images and Representations in Vietnamese American Music Videos"
Spring 2001 Graduate

Kali Fermantez                                                                         Geography, PhD Program
Capstone Project: "The Hui and Da Hui Inc.: Incorporating N-oceans of Native Hawaiian Resistance"                                                             Spring 2005 Graduate

Himanee Gupta
Political Science, PhD program
"What's in a Name? Metaphor and Politics of Naming Among South Asians in Mkiddletown"
Fall 2004 Graduate

Yuka Hasegawa
Anthropology, MA Program
Capstone Project: "Raves and Electronic Dance Music in Honolulu: History, Politics and Its Expression"
Fall 2005 Graduate

Chang Heng-hao
Sociology, PhD Program
"Contesting Diaspora Paradigms: The Cultural Politics of Taiwanese Cultural Festival in Honolulu"
Spring 2001 Graduate

Zachary Hickman
Political Science, MA Program
Capstone Project: "Globalization in Rural Tennessee: A Study of its Impact on Advertising"
Spring 2003 Graduate
 
Kyle Ikeda
East Asian Languages & Literature, MA Program
Capstone Project: "Okinawan Nationalist Gender Construction and the US Occupation in Oshiro Tatsuhiro's Cocktail Party"
Fall 2000 Graduate

Bianca Kai Isaki
Political Science, PhD Program
Capstone Project: "Women and Discourses of Reproductive Health"
Fall 2002 Graduate
 
Eric Ishiwata
Political Science, PhD Program
Capstone Project: "Local Motions: Surfing and the Productions of Locality in Hawai'i"
Fall 2000 Graduate

Amporn Jirattikorn
Anthropology, PhD Program
Capstone Project: "Global Lukthung Song: The Postmodern-Hybridization of Thai Country Music"
Spring 2003 Graduate

Christopher Johns
History, MA Program
 Capstone Project: "Disney Does Hawai`i: Conflicting Voices in Lilo and Stitch"
Fall 2003 Graduate

Jay Johnson
Geography, PhD Program
Capstone Project: "A Geography of Indigenous Self-Determination: Biculturalism in Aotearoa/New Zealand"
Spring 2000 Graduate

Hirofumi Katsuno
Anthropology, PhD Program
Capstone Project: "Becoming Generation Kikaida: Formation of Generational Identity in the Revival of a Japanese Live-Action TV Program in Hawai`i"
Fall 2003 Graduate

Lea Lani Kinikini
Pacific Island Studies, MA Program
Capstone Project: "Thug Bodies: Criminal Deportees in the Kingdom of Tonga"
Fall 2005 Graduate

Jinzhao Li
American Studies, PhD Program
Capstone Project: "Construction of Chineseness: 50 Years of Narcissus Queen Pageants in Hawai'i"
Fall 2001 Graduate

Kinuko Maehara
Sociology, PhD Program
Capstone Project: "Between Fantasy and Realism: The Portrayal of Okinawa in the Japanese Television Drama CHARUSAN"
Fall 2004 Graduate

Jeffrey Mertz
Geography, MA Program
Capstone Project: "Trekking Agencies and Guides: Delivering the Myth of Adventure in Northern Thailand"
Spring 2006 Graduate

Kimberly Miller-Kanono
Education Foundations, PhD Program
Capstone Project: "Kokki im Dapiji Men ko Bunid: Co-constructing Marshallese hiStories of Education during the United States Trust Territory Era"
Spring 2004 Graduate

Takashi Mita
Pacific Island Studies, MA Program
Capstone Project: "Legacy and Memory of Colonial Experience: The Remaining Influences of Japanese Colonial Administration in Contemporary Society in the Republic of Palau"
Spring 2000 Graduate

Vijayan Munusamy
International Managment, PhD Program
Capstone Project: "Multiculturalism: Defining its Landscapes - Malaysia's Case"
Spring 2006 Graduate

Thaddeus Oliver
Political Science, PhD Program
Capstone Project: "Mafiuso Entertainment"
Spring 2003 Graduate

Keiko Ohnuma
Art and Art History, MFA Program
Capstone Project: "Aloha Spirit and the Cultural Politics of Sentiment as National Belonging"
Spring 2006 Graduate

Teri Skillman-Kashyap
Ethnomusicology, PhD Program
Capstone Project: "Captured Images, Unsilenced Voices! The Re-voicing of Hula Dancers' Appropriated Photographs"
Fall 2003 Graduate
 

Suchart Setthamalinee
Anthropology, PhD Program
Capstone Project: "The Politics of Representation of Islamic Art in Shangri La"
Fall 2004 Graduate

Dominica Tolentino
Anthropology, PhD Program
Capstone Project: "Malafunkshun: Chamorro Identity and Humor on Guam"
Fall 2002 Graduate

Ravikiran Vatrapu
Information and Computer Science, PhD Program
Capstone Project: "Are Political Weblogs Public Spheres or Partisan Spheres? A Virtual Ethnography of Online Participation"
Fall 2005 Graduate

Kalindi Ann Vora
Anthropology, PhD Program
Capstone Project: "Filmi Foundations: Emergent Indian Identity or Reinscription of the Indian Middle Class Ideal?"
Spring 2001 Graduate

Lissa Wentner
Geography, MA Program
Capstone Project: "Capacity Building, Colonialism, and Development"
Spring 2003 Graduate

Jane Yamashiro
Sociology, PhD Program
Capstone Project: "Using and Abusing Diaspora: Changing Conceptions of Japaneseness in David Mura's Turning Japanese"
Spring 2004 Graduate