Dr. Hōkūlani Aikau
Professor, director
Indigenous Governance
- Contact:
- Office: HSD A260c igovdir@uvic.ca 250-721-8098
- ORCID:
- 0009-0004-9222-3697
- Credentials:
- BS (Utah), MA (Memphis), PhD (Minnesota)
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Contemporary Native Hawaiian identity & politics, Indigenous resurgence & climate change in the Pacific, Indigenous environmental justice, Native feminist theory, American race relations
About
Dr. Hōkūlani K. Aikau is a Kanaka ‘Ōiwi (Native Hawaiian). She is an interdisciplinary scholar with training in American Studies and Sociology and teaching experience in Political Science, Indigenous Politics, Native Hawaiian Politics, and Pacific Islands Studies.
Her research focus is:
- contemporary Native Hawaiian identity and politics
- Indigenous resurgence and climate change in the Pacific
- Indigenous environmental Justice
- Native feminist theory
- American race relations and food sovereignty