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NOENOE K. SILVA

noenoe@hawaii.edu
Department of Political Science
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
2424 Maile Way Saunders Hall 640
Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822
(808) 956-8030

CURRICULUM VITAE

Education

Ph.D., Political Science, with departmental honors. University of Hawai'i at Manoa, August 1999.
Dissertation: Ke Ku'e Kupa'a Loa Nei Makou (We Most Solemnly Protest): Kanaka Maoli Resistance to Colonization. Chair: Deane Neubauer.
MLIS (Master's degree in Library and Information Studies), School of Library and Information Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 1993.
BA, Hawaiian Language (with distinction).University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 1991.

Research Experience

Major Hawaiian language historical research contribution to Nation Within, book and video. Tom Coffman, writer and producer. 1998.
Hawaiian language and historical research consultant to Sacred Times, Sacred Places, an organization which plans celebrations and commemorations at 'Iolani Palace, Honolulu, Hawai'i, 1995-1996, and 1999.
Original research in Dialog on the indexing of gay and lesbian periodicals in library journal indexes. For Library Studies course in electronic information resources. 1993.
Tracing of land title from 1848 Mahele to the present. For Hawaiian language translation course. 1991.

Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Spring 2002.
Department of Hawaiian and Indo-Pacific Languages University of Hawai'i at Manoa, August 1999 to present as assistant professor; January 1992 to May 1998 as lecturer. Courses taught: Hawaiian 101, 102, 201, 202, 301, 302 (Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Hawaiian); HAW 345 (Reading Hawaiian Newspapers); HAW 426 (Hawaiian Literature).
Center for Hawaiian Studies University of Hawai'i at Manoa, May 1999 to August 1999. Course taught: Hawaiian Studies 107.

PUBLICATIONS

Peer reviewed

Aloha 'Aina: Native Hawaiians' Struggle for the Land and Sovereignty to 1898 (working title; based on Ph.D. dissertation.) To be published by Duke University Press, 2002-03.
"I Ku Mau Mau: How Kanaka Maoli Tried to Sustain Aloha 'Aina Within the U.S. Political System," reviewed and currently being revised for American Studies.
"Pele, Hi'iaka, and Haumea: Representations of Women in Native Hawaiian Literature, 1861 & 1906" Women of Oceania special issue of Pacific Studies. Under review.
"Dancing on the Page: Representations of Hula in Hawaiian Literature During the Legal Ban (1861)", under review with School for American Research.
"'He Kanawai E Hoopau I Na Hula Kuolo Hawaii': The Political Economy of Banning the Hula (1857-1870)." Hawaiian Journal of History 34: 29-48, 2000.
"Hawai'i." Encyclopedia of Homosexuality Volume I: Lesbian Histories and Cultures 2nd ed. New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 2000.
"Ku'e: Hawaiian Women's Resistance to the Annexation." Women in Hawai'i: Sites, Identities, Voices. Social Process in Hawai'i 38: 4-15. Honolulu: Department of Sociology, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 1997.

Other

"Lorrin Andrews's Dictionary: A Bridge to 19th Century Hawaiian Thought" introduction to reprint edition of A Dictionary of the Hawaiian Language by Lorrin Andrews [1865], Honolulu: Island Heritage (in press).
Review of Turning Tide: The Ebb and Flow of Hawaiian Nationality, by Niklaus R. Schweizer (New York: Peter Lang, 1999). Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development vol. 22:3, 2001, 288-290.
"Decolonizing History in the Classroom." with Guy Kaulukukui. 'Oiwi: A Native Hawaiian Journal vol. 3. Honolulu: Kuleana 'Oiwi Press, 2002 (in press).
Translations into English of "Ka Leo Alii I Mua O Ka Lahui," "E Kupaa Mau I Ke Aloha No Ka Aina," and a speech by Robert Kalanihiapo Wilcox, from Ke Aloha Aina newspaper, 1900, for 'Oiwi vol. 2. Honolulu: Kuleana 'Oiwi Press, 2001 (in press).
"Ku'e: Hawaiian Women's Resistance to the Annexation." Reprinted from Social Process in Hawai'i in Moana: Pacific Islander Student Publication, Vol. 2, University of Utah, Spring 1999.
"Kanaka Maoli Resistance to Annexation." 'Oiwi. Honolulu: Kuleana 'Oiwi Press, 1999.
"Papa Kuhikuhi Kiko'i (Index)." In Kamakau, Samuel M. Ke Kumu Aupuni. Honolulu: 'Ai Pohaku Press. 1997. (In Hawaiian).
"Ka Nupepa Kanaka Maoli Mua Loa." Ka Wai Ola o OHA. May 1997 (in Hawaiian).
"Hi'iaka the Hero." In Folklore Around the World. ERIC Resources in Education, November 1994.
Russell Sprouts translation into Hawaiian for Department of Education, 1993.
A Canoe for Uncle Kila translation into Hawaiian for Department of Education, 1992.

Grants and Major Funding Received

Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for Minorities, 1998-1999.
Pacific Islanders in Communications Research Grant, 1997-1998.
National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship for Minorities, 1994-1997.

Papers & Presentations

"Pele, Hi'iaka, and Haumea: Representations of Women in Native Hawaiian Literature, 1861 & 1906" at 12th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, June 8, 2002, University of Connecticut at Storrs.
"Hawaiian Women's Resistance to Annexation," at Women's History Month Reception of the Honolulu County Committee on the Status of Women, March 2002.
"Traditional and Contemporary Hawaiian Ideas About Women's Work," in Women's Studies 418 (Women and Work), October, 2001.
"Kanaka Maoli Women in Politics: A Historical Perspective," in Women's Studies 374 (Women and Politics), October, 2001.
On responder panel for "Indigenous Peoples, Research & Power: The Ethics & Politics of Knowledge" presentation by Patrick Tierney, author of Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists & Journalists Devastated the Amazon, September, 2001, Center for Hawaiian Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
"Kaleimaileali'i: The Queen's Women," speech giving historical background for the drama presented on Queen Lili'uokalani's birthday at the Kana'ina Building on the grounds of 'Iolani Palace, September 2, 2001.
On panel of Kanaka Maoli women for Women's Studies 360 (Pacific Asian Women in Hawai'i), September, 2001.
"The Importance of Hawaiian Language Sources for Understanding the Hawaiian Past." Building Bridges with Traditional Knowledge II: An international summit meeting on issues involving indigenous peoples, conservation, sustainable development and ethnoscience. Honolulu, May 28-June 1, 2001.
Also presented in: Anthropology 385 (Indigenous Anthropology), October, 2001; Seminar on International Cultural Studies, East-West Center, Honolulu, March, 2000.
"The Importance of Stories and Ceremonies," Keynote Speech at Commencement, Center for Hawaiian Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, May, 2001.
"Recent Developments in the Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement" in Mehana Hind's Hawaiian Studies 107 class, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, April, 2000.
"Aloha 'Aina Following the U.S. Occupation, 1893-1900," at the commemoration of the centennial of the Organic Act, April 30, 2000, 'Iolani Palace, Honolulu.
"Them's Got Democracy's We Got Survive: Narrating Aloha 'Aina After the U.S. Occupation," Colloquium Series, Department of Political Science, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, April 28, 2000.
Speaker on panel on Hawaiian Sovereignty for the Close-Up Foundation, Waikiki, March 9, 2000.
"I Ku Mau Mau: How Kanaka Maoli Tried to Sustain Aloha 'Aloha within American Politics," at "The Limits of American Citizenship: A Conference on Local Culture, Hawaiian Identity, and Mainland Influences in Hawai'i." Sponsored by Boston University's Institute for the Study of Economic Culture, March 11, 2000.
"La Ku'oko'a: Hawai'i's Independence Day" at 'Iolani Palace, November 28, 1999.
Co-moderated panel on sexual orientation at Ford Foundation Conference of Fellows, Washington, D.C., October 1999.
"Recovering Hawaiian Women in History Through Hawaiian Language Sources" at "Women in World, American, and Hawaiian Histories," 1999 Summer History Institute, Chaminade University, Honolulu.
"Ka Hoku o ka Pakipika (The Star of the Pacific): The Voice of Kanaka Maoli Resistance to Cultural Imperialism." 1998 Ford Foundation Conference of Fellows, Irvine, California. October 1998.
"Ka Po'e Aloha 'Aina: Hawaiian Patriots" at "Na Pua Hana No'eau" Bishop Museum Lecture Series. August 19, 1998.
"Kanaka Maoli Resistance to Annexation" at the symposium "Contesting 1898: Marking a Century of Resistance in Puerto Rico and Hawai'i." Center for Cultural Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz, May 28, 1998. Also presented at: World Indigenous Peoples' Conference on Education, Hilo, Hawai'i, August, 1999. Lyman Museum, August, 1999. Queen Lili'uokalani Children's Center, Punalu'u, November 1998.
"Resistance in Paradise" Lecture Series for AFSC, Hilo, Hawai'i, October 1998.
Thompson Family Reunion, St. Andrew's Church, Honolulu, August, 1998.
St. Matthew's Church, Waimanalo, July 1998.
Sovereignty Education Forum for AFSC, Kaumakapili Church, Honolulu, May 1998.
"The Public Health of Kanaka Maoli Depends on Achieving Self-Determination" at "Advocating for Social Justice in Public Health," Hawai'i Public Health Association 1997 Annual Meeting. Honolulu, May 9, 1997.
"The Importance of Hawaiian Language Histories and Literatures." Presentation for Pacific Century Fellows, at Bishop Museum, April 11, 1997.
"La Ku'oko'a: Hawai'i's National Independence Day." For Kua'ana Student Services, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, November 1996.
"Decolonizing Historiography in Hawai'i." For Hawai'i Politics 380, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Professor Deane Neubauer, April 1996.
"Hawaiian Women and the Nation." Forum on Women and Nationalism, University of Hawai'i Women's Center, April 1996.
"Hawaiian Women's Resistance to Annexation." School of Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Studies Graduate Student Conference, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, March 1996.
"How Budget Cuts Are Affecting Native Hawaiians." Forum on Budget Cuts, sponsored by Center for Instructional Support, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Spring 1996.
"Current Issues in Hawaiian Sovereignty: A Report on the Pualu." For Political Science 110, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Professor Phyllis Turnbull, March 1996.

Preservation Grant Application - submitted October 2002

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