Russian Collections at Hamilton Library University of Hawai'i
	Ella Lury Wiswell February 20, 1909 - August 16, 2005

Educational background
1926 Graduated from the Canadian Academy, Kobe, Japan
1927-1929 Attended University of California, Berkeley
1929-1931 Attended Sorbonne University
1931 Received diploma from the Ecole de Professeurs de Français à l’Etranger

Professional Experience
Anthropological field work in Suye Mura, Japan, with John Embree, 1935-1936.

Study in Acculturation among Japanese in Kona, Hawaii, with John Embree, 1937-1938.

Taught night courses in Russian at the University of Hawaii, 1938.

Research Analyst on Japan, Board of Economic Warfare, Washington, D.C., 1942-1944.

Japanese broadcast checker, U.S. Office of War Information, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1945.

Editorial Assistant in preparing Planning Micronesian Future, (Cambridge University Press, 1951) U.S. Commercial Company, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1945-1947.

Associate Professor of French and of Russian Language and Literature, University of Hawaii, 1951-1968

Selected Publications
Emel'ianov, Konstantin, Liudi v adu (K 20-letiiu gibeli Nikolaevska-na-Amure s predis. IA. Lovicha). Pod nauch. red. T.A. Gubaidulinoi i A.A. Khisamutdinov (predis. i kommentarii na rus.); predis., kommentarii, per. s angl. E. M. Liuri-Vizvel. Vladivostok: Izd-vo VGUES, 2004. 228 p., illus.
          

The Destruction of Nikolaevsk-on-Amur, 1920.   Translated from Russian, Gibel' Nikolaevska-na-Amure by A. Ya. Gutmann (Anatoly Gan). Edited by Richard Pierce (The Limestone Press, 1993), xxxiii, 395 p.

The Women of Suye Mura   with Robert J. Smith. (The Universtiy of Chicago Press, 1982), xxxvii, 293 p.

Around the World on the Kamchatka 1817-1819   by V. M. Golovnin. Translated from Russian (The Hawaiian Historical Society and the Universtity of Hawaii Press, 1979), xxxix, 353 p.

Hawaii in 1819: A Narrative Account by Louis Claude de Freycinet  chapters 27 & 28 translated from French Pacific Anthropological Record, No. 26. , Marion Kelly, editor. (Bernice P. Bihop Museum, 1978), xii, 136 p.

"A Russian Traveler's Impressions of Hawaii and Tahiti" Chapter 7 translated from Russian of A. V. Vysheslavtsev Ocherki perom i karandashom iz krugosvetnogo plavaniia v godakh 1857, 1858, 1859 i 1860   in The Hawaiian Journal of History XVII, 1983, p.76-142.

Japanese Peasant Songs.  Compiled and annotated by John Embree, with the assistance of Ella Embree and Yukuo Uehara. (Philadelphia: American Folklore Society, 1944), ix, 96p. Memoirs of the American Folklore Society, v. 38.

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