Current Students
The following are select graduate degree candidates.
![Kamakani-Albano Kamakani Albano](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Kamakani-Albano.jpg)
Kamakani Albano
Email: albanodc@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Indigenous Politics)
Research Interests: Abolition Feminisms, Indigenous Pasifika Queer Feminisms, Hawaiian Independence, Labor Organizing, Demilitarized Futures
Advisor: Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻōpua
![Ariel-Mota-Alves Ariel Mota Alves, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, UH Mānoa](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Ariel-Mota-Alves.jpg)
Ariel Mota Alves
Email: motaal2@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Law and Policy)
Research Interests: Political Ecology, Post-development, Environmental Changes, Climate Change, Land Rights, Southeast Asia Politics, Timor-Leste Politics
Advisor: Ehito Kimura
![Samantha-Marley-Barnett Samantha Marley Barnett, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, UH Mānoa](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Samantha-Marley-Barnett.jpg)
Samantha Marley Barnett
Email: smb2@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Indigenous Politics)
Research Interests: Chamoru Liberation, Demilitarization, Abolition, Indigenous Sovereignty
Advisor: Noenoe Silva
![Randizia-Crisostomo Randizia Crisostomo, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, UH Mānoa](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Randizia-Crisostomo.jpg)
Randizia Crisostomo
Email: rbcrisos@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Indigenous Politics)
Research Interests: Indigenous Resurgence, Pasifika Feminisms, Chamoru Agency/Activism in Guåhan, the Marianas and the Diaspora, De-occupation and Mili(Tourism) in Oceania, Inafa'maolek as Praxis
Advisor: Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio
![Boyd-DeLanzo Boyd DeLanzo, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, UH Mānoa](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Boyd-DeLanzo.jpg)
Boyd DeLanzo
Email: delanzo@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Alternative Futures, International Relations, Political Theory)
Research Interests: Complexity Theory, Space Policy, Space Futures, Geotechnics, Competition, China
Advisor: Jairus Grove
![Aaron-A-Donaldson Aaron A. Donaldson, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, UH Mānoa](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Aaron-A-Donaldson.jpg)
Aaron A. Donaldson
Email: aarondon@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Alternative Futures, Indigenous Politics)
Research Interests: Afro-Indigenous Philosophy; Black & Indigenous Existentialism; Existential Politics; Indigenous Cosmologies & Epistemologies; Ontometaphysics; War; Indigenous Futures; Critical Race Studies
Advisor: Jairus Grove
![Ari-Eisenstat Ari Eisenstat, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, UH Mānoa](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Ari-Eisenstat.jpg)
Ari Eisenstat
Email: ari7@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Alternative Futures, International Relations, Law and Policy, Political Theory)
Research Interests: Sustainable Development, Social Innovation, Human Rights, Outer Space, Peace and Conflict Resolution, Exponential Technologies, International Organizations, Civil Society Advocacy, Climate Justice
Advisor: Jairus Grove
![Ryan-Ferguson Ryan Ferguson, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, UH Mānoa](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Ryan-Ferguson.jpg)
Ryan Ferguson
Email: ryanferg@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Alternative Futures, Political Theory)
Research Interests: Politics of Technology, Future of Media Systems, Aesthetics
Advisor: Jairus Grove
![Shannon-Hennessey Shannon Pōmaikaʻi Hennessey](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Shannon-Hennessey.jpg)
Shannon Pōmaikaʻi Hennessey
Email: shenness@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Indigenous Politics)
Research Interests: Indigenous Resurgence, Indigenous Theory, Hawaiian Language Newspapers, Indigenous Pacific Feminisms, Hawaiian Identity
Advisor: Noenoe Silva
![Hildre-C-Herrera Hildre C Herrera, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, UH Mānoa](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Hildre-C-Herrera.jpg)
Hildre C Herrera
Email: hherrera@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Alternative Futures)
Research Interests: Futures, Political Language, Nostalgia, International Politics, Media
Advisor: Jairus Grove
![Hannah-Hyman Hannah Hyman](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Hannah-Hyman.jpg)
Hannah Hyman
Email: hhyman@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Political Theory)
Research Interests: Feminist Theory, Queer Theory, Political Theology, Biopolitics
Advisor: Kathy Ferguson
![Kamalani-Johnson Kamalani Johnson, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, UH Mānoa](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Kamalani-Johnson.jpg)
Kamalani Johnson
Email: kj31@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Indigenous Politics, Political Theory)
Research Interests: Hawaiian Historiography; Hawaiian Literature; Hawaiian Language Revitalization; Indigenous Language Revitalization; Hawaiian Political Theory; Hawaiian and Indigenous Life Writing
Advisor: Noenoe Silva
![Kaiminaauao-Cambern Kaʻiminaʻauao Cambern, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, UH Mānoa](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Kaiminaauao-Cambern.jpg)
Kaʻiminaʻauao Kahikina (Cambern)
Email: cambernk@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Indigenous Politics)
Research Interests: Political Economies of Mana, Black and Indigenous Co-optic Futures, Hōʻailona and Kānaka Maoli Political Action/Activism, Trans-indigenous Resurgence, Hulihia, Pilina, Ea, Moʻokūʻauhau Consciousness
Advisor: Noenoe Silva
![Akta-Rao Akta Rao](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Akta-Rao.jpg)
Akta Rao
Email: akta@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Political Theory)
Research Interests: Postcolonial/Decolonial Theory and International Relations
Advisor: Nicole Sunday Grove
![Hana-Kim Hana Kim, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, UH Mānoa](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Hana-Kim.jpg)
Hana Kim
Email: hanakim@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Comparative Politics, International Relations, Law and Policy, Political Theory)
Research Interests: Comparative Politics, Feminist Theory, Civil Society, Politics of Religion, Postcolonial Studies, Korean Studies, Korean America
Advisor: Kathy Ferguson
![Ciera-Lasconia Ciera Lasconia, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, UH Mānoa](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Ciera-Lasconia.jpg)
Ciera Lasconia
Email: cierak21@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Indigenous Politics)
Research Interests: Indigenous Politics, Hawaiʻi Politics, Deoccupation, MMIWG, Free Speech, Eugenics
Advisor: Jamaica Osorio
![Andriy-Levytskyy Andriy Levytskyy, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, UH Mānoa](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Andriy-Levytskyy.jpg)
Andriy Levytskyy
Email: alevytsk@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Alternative Futures, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Political Theory)
Research Interests: Critical International Relations, Post-Soviet Transformations, Political Sociology, Complex Systems, Ukraine
Advisor: Nevzat Soguk
![Cheng-Cheng Li Cheng-Cheng Li, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, UH Mānoa](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Cheng-Cheng-Li.jpg)
Cheng-Cheng Li
Email: ccli@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Indigenous Politics, International Relations)
Research Interests: Cultural Diplomacy, Pacific Regionalism, Pacific Islands Forum, Taiwan Foreign Policy, Taiwan and Oceania
Advisor: Sarah Wiebe
![Samantha-Lopez Samantha Lopez, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, UH Mānoa](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Samantha-Lopez.jpg)
Samantha Lopez
Email: salopez@hawaii.edu
Program: MA (Law and Policy)
Research Interests: US Imperialism, Postcolonial Studies, Philippine Foreign Policy, Land and Self-Determination, Public Policy
Advisor: Sarah Wiebe
![Daniel-Kauwila-Mahi Daniel Kauwila Mahi, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, UH Mānoa](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Daniel-Kauwila-Mahi.jpg)
Daniel Kauwila Mahi
Email: dmahi@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Alternative Futures, Indigenous Politics)
Research Interests: Contested Governance, Ceremony, Traditional Games, Alternative Exports, Hawaiian Kingdom Governance, Indigenous Futurisms
Advisor: Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio
![Mathew-Markman Mathew Markman, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, UH Mānoa](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Mathew-Markman.jpg)
Mathew Markman
Email: markman@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Alternative Futures, Political Theory)
Research Interests: Sanctuary, Fascism, Far-Right Extremism, Counter-Radicalization, Democratic Futures, Alternative Governance Models, Urban Revolution, Quantum Social Science, Middle Eastern Studies
Advisor: Jairus Grove
![Billy-Meinke-Lau Billy Meinke Lau, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, UH Mānoa](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Billy-Meinke-Lau.jpg)
Billy Meinke-Lau
Email: wmeinke@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Alternative Futures)
Research Interests: Futures, Intellectual Property Rights, Open Educational Resources, Education Policy, Personal Data, Surveillance
Advisor: Jairus Grove
![Sukyoung-Myung Sukyoung Myung, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, UH Mānoa](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Sukyoung-Myung.jpg)
Sukyoung Myung
Email: smyung@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Comparative Politics, International Relations)
Research Interests: Political Polarization, Democracy, Political Participation, Online Nationalism, Asian Politics, Korean Politics
Advisor: Ehito Kimura
![Keegan-Newton Keegan Newton, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, UH Mānoa](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Keegan-Newton.jpg)
Keegan Newton
Email: keeganan@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD ()
Research Interests: Cyber Policy, Technology & Geopolitics
Advisor: Jairus Grove
![Saveun-Nhim Saveun Nhim, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, UH Mānoa](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Saveun-Nhim.jpg)
Saveun Nhim
Email: snhim@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Law and Policy)
Research Interests: Education, Public Policy, Disabilities, Non-Profit Management, Research, Advocacy. Southeast Asia
Advisor: Katharina Heyer
![Haani-San-Nicolas Ha'ani San Nicolas, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, UH Mānoa](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Haani-San-Nicolas.jpg)
Ha'åni San Nicolas
Email: haanisn@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Indigenous Politics)
Research Interests: Reproductive Justice, Indigenous and Bodily Sovereignty, Decolonization, Oceania Feminisms, Pacific Island Women’s Histories
Advisor: Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio
![Jordan-Peterson Jordan Peterson, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, UH Mānoa](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Jordan-Peterson.jpg)
Jordan Peterson
Email: jordanp9@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Comparative Politics)
Research Interests: Southeast Asia, Oceania, Migration, Subnational Conflict
Advisor: Ehito Kimura
![Alyssa-Purcell Alyssa Purcell, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, UH Mānoa](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Alyssa-Purcell.jpg)
Alyssa Purcell
Email: anap9@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Indigenous Politics)
Research Interests: Indigenous Politics, Indigenous Theory, Mana Wāhine, Moʻokūʻauhau, Moʻolelo
Advisor: Noenoe Silva
![Ken-Reyes Ken Reyes, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, UH Mānoa](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Ken-Reyes.jpg)
Ken Reyes
Email: ereyes4@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Comparative Politics, Political Theory)
Research Interests: Political Theology, Philippine Politics, Authoritarianism, Political Violence, Biopolitics, Circulation of Power, Form-of-Life
Advisor: Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller
![Ryan-Roden Ryan (Joon-Ho) Roden, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, UH Mānoa](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Ryan-Roden.jpg)
Ryan (Joon-Ho) Roden
Email: rroden@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Alternative Futures, Indigenous Politics, International Relations)
Research Interests: Borderlands Studies, Decolonization, Identity construction + deconstruction, Demilitarization, Neocolonial and Postcolonial Studies, Indigenous & Non-State Futurities
Advisor: Nevzat Soguk
![Josiah-Rodriguez Josiah (Keoni) Rodriguez](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Josiah-Rodriguez.jpg)
Josiah (Keoni) Rodriguez
Email: jjkq@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Indigenous Politics)
Research Interests: Diaspora Studies, Identity Formation, Epistemologies, Research Methodologies, Indigenous Solidarities, Hawaiian Studies, Filipino Studies, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Critical Theory
Advisor: Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻōpua
![Sara-Saastamoinen Sara Saastamoinen, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, UH Mānoa](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Sara-Saastamoinen.jpg)
Sara Saastamoinen
Email: sarasaas@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Alternative Futures, Indigenous Politics, Law and Policy, Political Theory)
Research Interests: Existential and Catastrophic Risks, Indigenous Futures, Displacement and Concepts of Home, Karjala, Indigenous Languages, Identities, Queer Theory
Advisor: Jairus Grove
![Steffanie-Sobitz Steffanie Sobitz, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, UH Mānoa](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Steffanie-Sobitz.jpg)
Steffanie Sobitz
Email: ssobitz@hawaii.edu
Program: MA (Alternative Futures, Indigenous Politics, International Relations, Law and Policy)
Research Interests: Socio-Legal Theory, Indigenous Law, Alternatives Futures: (non)state building, Democratic Confederalism, Middle East (Kurdish peoples), Spain, North Africa
Advisor: Jairus Grove
![Kaiqing-Su2 Kaiqing Su, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, UH Mānoa](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Kaiqing-Su2.jpg)
Kaiqing Su
Email: ksu4@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Comparative Politics, Indigenous Politics, International Relations, Political Theory)
Research Interests: Decolonization, Postcolonial Theory, Infrastructure, Development, Political Ecology, Aesthetics, Cartography, Historiography, Translation, China, Oceania
Advisor: Sankaran Krishna
![Tamara-Swift Tamara Swift, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, UH Mānoa](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Tamara-Swift.jpg)
Tamara Swift
Email: swiftt@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Alternative Futures)
Research Interests: Alternative Local Political Structures, Local and Sustainable Farming, Hawaiian Ahupua'a Land System, Women in Governance, Surviving Climate Crisis
Advisor: Jairus Grove
![Susy-Tekunan Susy Tekunan, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, UH Mānoa](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Susy-Tekunan.jpg)
Susy Tekunan
Email: tekunans@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Comparative Politics)
Research Interests: Overseas Chinese Immigration in Southeast Asia, Chinese Diaspora, China Transnational Governance, Colonial Legacy and Racial Politics
Advisor: Petrice Flowers
![Mahina-Tuteur Mahina Tuteur, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, UH Mānoa](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Mahina-Tuteur.jpg)
Mahina Tuteur
Email: ntuteur@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Indigenous Politics, Law and Policy)
Research Interests: Indigenous Law and Social Movements, Natural Resource Management, Land and Water, Critical Race Theory
Advisor: Noenoe Silva
![Chantrelle-Melenani-Waialae Chantrelle Melenani Waialae, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, UH Mānoa](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Chantrelle-Melenani-Waialae.jpg)
Chantrelle Melenani Waialae
Email: cwaialae@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Indigenous Politics, Law and Policy)
Research Interests: Native Hawaiian Law, Family Law, Violence Against Women, Public Policy, Native Hawaiian Rights, Indigenous Politics, Conflict Resolution, Pu'uhonua
Advisor: Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller
![Griffin-Werner Griffin Werner](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Griffin-Werner.jpg)
Griffin Werner
Email: gbwerner@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Alternative Futures, Political Theory)
Research Interests: Nihilism, Emptiness, Political Critique, Cybernetics, Aesthetics, Education, Kyoto School Philosophy, Zen Buddhism, Continental Philosophy, Philosophy for Children (p4c)
Advisor: Jairus Grove
![Kalaniakea-Wilson Kalaniakea Wilson, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, UH Mānoa](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Kalaniakea-Wilson.jpg)
Kalaniakea Wilson
Email: knwilson@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Indigenous Politics, International Relations, Law and Policy)
Research Interests: Ko Hawaii Pae Aina, Aloha kekahi i kekahi, I ka wa ma mua, I ka wa ma hope, He alii ka aina, He kauwa ke kanaka, Occupation, Colonization, Genocide, Power, Race, Treaties, War Crimes, Propaganda, Lies
Advisor: Noenoe Silva
![Changwon-Yang Changwon Yang, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, UH Mānoa](https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Changwon-Yang.jpg)
Changwon Yang
Email: changwon@hawaii.edu
Program: PhD (Comparative Politics, International Relations)
Research Interests: Comparative Politics, Area Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, Philippines, Political Violence, Democracy
Advisor: Ehito Kimura