Current MA and PhD Students
The following are select sociology graduate students.
Jason Mark Alexander
Email: jasonma@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Decolonial Social Movements, Japan-Myanmar Relations, Demilitarization, Environmental Justice, Transindigenous Futures
Advisor: Aya Kimura
Omar Bird
Email: birdo@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Social Determinants of Health, Stress and Mental Health, Racism and Institutions, Intersectional Life Course Analysis, Research Methods
Advisor: Krysia Mossakowski
Penny-Bee Kapilialoha Bovard
Email: pennybee@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Feminist and Oceanic Pedagogies and Methodologies. Sociology of Gender and Sport. Feminist Criminology
Advisor: Katherine Irwin
Austin (Keaupuni) Davis
Email: davisaus@hawaii.edu
Program: MA
Research Interests: Hawaiian Sociology, Indigenous Paradigm, Argo-food Systems, Sts Studies, Asia-pacific Relations, Mixed Methods
Advisor: Aya Kimura
Kelly Duong
Email: kduong3@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Medical Sociology, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), Mental Health, Gender
Advisor: Krysia Mossakowski
Rachel Engel
Email: rengel@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Racism, Colorism, Globalization, Southeast Asia
Advisor: Nandita Sharma
Matthieu Kalua
Email: mkalua4@hawaii.edu
Program: MA
Research Interests: Medical Sociology, Medical Anthropology, Women's Health, Trans Health, Reproductive Violence, Sexual/Gender Based Violence (SGBV), Intersectional-Socialist Feminism
Advisor: Krysia Mossakowski
Jaeho Kook
Email: jkook@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Sociology of Technology, Sociology of Sports, Globalization, Global Football (soccer), Critical Theory
Advisor: Manfred Steger
Zachary Kubo
Email: zkubo@hawaii.edu
Program: MA
Research Interests: Postcolonialism, Intersectionality, Alternative Futures beyond Capitalism and Colonialism (Decolonial Concepts)
Advisor: Jennifer Darrah
Marina Kudinov
Email: mkudinov@hawaii.edu
Program: MA
Research Interests: Medical Sociology, Economic Sociology
Advisor: Krysia Mossakowski
S. M. Anowarul Kayes Shimul
Email: shimul@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Political Ecology, Health Inequality, STS, & Social Policy
Advisor: Aya Kimura
Aya Shirayama
Email: ayashira@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Ethnicity, Identity, Diaspora, Food, Indigenous Sociology, Okinawans, Asia-Pacific, Qualitative Research
Advisor: Aya Kimura
Yusuke Tsukada
Email: yusukets@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Sociology of Education, Sociology of Work, Sociology of Mental Health, Sociology of Teaching, Japan, Quantitative Methods
Advisor: Krysia Mossakowski
Margaret (Margie) Walkover
Email: walkover@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD
Research Interests: Sociology of Knowledge, Public Sociology, Complexity, Globalization, Climate Change, Population Health, Mental Health/Substance Use, Community Resilience
Advisor: Manfred Steger
Lynne Wolforth
Email: wolforth@hawaii.edu
Program: MA
Research Interests: Medical Sociology, Sociology of Health, Maternal & Infant Health, Quantitative Methods
Advisor: Krysia Mossakowski