| Center
for Russia in Asia
The Center for Russia in Asia conducts research to
promote a more sophisticated understanding of Russia’s historical and
contemporary presence in East Asia and the Pacific. The center serves as
an information resource, encourages international scholarly cooperation,
and publishes, in conjunction with the University of Hawai‘i Press,
studies on Siberia, the Soviet Far East, and Russian East Asian-Pacific
relations. Interested students can take relevant courses while pursuing
degrees in history, geography, political science, economics, Asian
studies, Pacific Islands studies, and other disciplines and programs.
The University library has an extensive exchange program with major
libraries from the former Soviet Union.
Center for South Asian Studies
The Center for South Asian Studies supports courses,
provides opportunities for intensive study of societies and cultures of
South Asia, and promotes faculty research and interaction across
departmental lines to foster comparative and interdisciplinary research
in the region. This area includes contemporary Bangladesh, Bhutan,
India, the Maldive Islands, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and, for some
purposes, Afghanistan and Tibet. The center initiates and supports
out-reach activities to the Manoa campus, as well as to the wider
Honolulu community.
Center for Southeast Asian Studies
The Center for Southeast Asian Studies coordinates and
supports many of the resources at the University related to Southeast
Asian studies. The center sponsors lectures and seminars given by the 55
University faculty focusing on Southeast Asia, as well as frequent
visitors from the region. It arranges faculty exchanges with Southeast
Asian universities and publishes the Southeast Asia Paper Series, which
began in 1972. The center also produces a journal, Cakalele, and
a student journal, Explorations in Southeast Asian Studies,
concerned with the Moluccas. Outreach is a strong component of the
center and includes programs for Hawai‘i’s public school system and
community organizations on a regular basis.
Committee for the Preservation and Study of
Hawaiian Language, Art and Culture
The committee was established in 1959 to protect and
encourage a deeper knowledge of the language and culture of the native
people of Hawai‘i. Through the resources and efforts of the committee,
more than two hundred projects have been funded in part or in whole over
the past 40 years. Examples range from the groundbreaking Hawaiian
Dictionary; Hawaiian-English and English Hawaiian, by Mary Kawena
Pukui and Samuel H. Elbert, to the Na Kanikau Aloha O Hawai‘i, a
project currently in progress that documents the adaptation of Hawaiian
to the written language in the 19th century, focusing on the kanikau, a
chant of mourning and lamentation.
Campus Events and Community Programs
SHAPS and its centers sponsor lectures, colloquia,
teacher workshops, conferences, film festivals, concerts, and special
events, such as the Grand Kabuki performance, Chinese martial arts
performances, and the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute. The
centers’ outreach programs take University expertise into the
community and secondary schools, and the Center for Hawaiian Studies
provides support services for native Hawaiian students.
Asian Studies
Moore 416
1890 East-West Road
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808) 956-6085
Fax: (808) 956-6345
Faculty
*R. D. Trimillos, PhD (Chair)--ethnomusicology, Southeast Asia, Japan
*R. Ames, PhD--philosophy, China
*B. Andaya, PhD--history, Southeast Asia
*B. Aquino, PhD--political science, Philippines
*M. Aung-Thwin, PhD--history, Southeast Asia (Burma)
*L. Carlile, PhD--political science, Japan
D. Chapell, PhD--religion, Buddhism
*D. Gladney, PhD--anthropology, China, Muslims
*E. Harwit, PhD--political science, East Asia (China)
*R. Kwok, PhD--urban and regional planning, East Asia (China)
*S. Minichiello, PhD--history, Japan
*C. Ning, PhD--Chinese literature, China
S. O’Harrow, PhD--oriental philology, Southeast Asia
*E. Porter, EdD--higher education administration, China
*M. Sharma, PhD--anthropology, South Asia (India)
E. Shultz, PhD--history, Korea
*W. Tanabe, PhD--art history, Japan
*R. Valliant, PhD--history, Russia and East Asia
*Graduate Faculty
Cooperating Faculty
All graduate faculty who are specialists and offer courses related to
the eight area centers within Asian studies serve as cooperating faculty
in Asian studies. Faculty related to the area centers--the centers for
China, Korea, Japan, the Philippines, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Russia
in Asia, and Buddhist studies--number more than 300; they are too
numerous to list here, but they can be found under departmental
listings.
Degrees and Certificates Offered: BA in Asian
studies, MA in Asian studies, Graduate Certificates in Chinese studies,
Korean studies, Japanese Studies, Philippine studies, South Asian
Studies, and Southeast Asian studies
The Academic Program
Asian studies (ASAN) is concerned with the people and
countries in the broad arc of Asia extending from Afghanistan in the
west to China, Japan, and Korea in the east and including the
Philippines and other islands and peninsulas of Southeast Asia to the
south. In cooperation with other departments of the University, the
Asian studies program offers an opportunity for students to concentrate
on the interdisciplinary study of an Asian country or region. Emphasis
is placed on learning the language of the chosen area, giving an
opportunity for study and language to progress together.
The growing importance of Asia in the United States
and in the economy, government and politics, diplomacy, and the arts
will relate directly to the academic programs linked to Asian studies.
The University of Hawai‘i at Manoa has made a
commitment to the study of Asia far greater than any other university in
terms of numbers of languages taught, areas studied, and faculty
specialists employed. This provides a unique opportunity to students
interested in Asia.
Interdisciplinary graduate and under-graduate programs
draw upon the rich resources for the study of Asia at the University of
Hawai‘i at Manoa. The Asian studies program offers courses of its own
and also incorporates Asia-related courses taught in the various
departments on campus, enabling each student to design a defined program
of study tailored to his or her particular interests.
Students in the program may select courses from Asian
studies and the following disciplines: anthropology, art, economics,
education, ethnic studies, geography, history, linguistics, literature,
music, philosophy, political science, population studies, religion,
sociology, theater and dance, urban and regional planning, and women’s
studies. Competence in an Asian language appropriate to the student’s
interests is considered fundamental, and the achievement of language
proficiency by graduation is a required part of the graduate degree
program.
The graduate program is organized into the following
areas: China, Japan, Korea, Philippines, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and
Buddhist studies. |