1984 Ph.D.. Anthropology. University of Oregon. Dissertation: Persons and Knowledge in Ponape.
1978 MA., Anthropology. University of Oregon. Paper: On the Concept of Pollution.
1975 B.A., Anthropology. University of New Orleans.

1998 Research Grant; University Research Council, University of Hawai`i.
1995 Nominee, BOR Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Hawai'i - West O'ahu.
1992 Anthropology Curriculum Development Stipend; University of Hawai'i-West O'ahu.
1991 Participant; National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar for College Teachers.
1991 Research Fellow; Institute for Culture and Communication, East-West Center.
1990 Research Grant; National Endowment for the Humanities, Interpretive Research Division. (With Linette Poyer  and Laurence Carucci.)
1990 Faculty Leave Extension Grant; Colby College.
1989 Research Grant; Social Sciences Division, Colby College.
1989 Research Grant; Interdisciplinary Division, Colby College.
1988 Research Grant; Social Sciences Division, Colby College.
1987 Research Grant; Social Sciences Division, Colby College.
1987 Charles A. Dana Foundation Professorship; Colby College.
1984 Faculty Research Grant; Idaho State.
1981-82 Homer Barnett Fellowship; University of Oregon.
1981 Dissertation Grant; U. S. Trust Territory Historic Preservation Office.
1980 Research Stipend; University of Oregon.
1979 Research Grant; U.S. Trust Territory Historic Preservation Office. (With William S. Ayres and Alan E. Haun.)
1976 Distinguished Student in Anthropology; University of New Orleans.
1973 Special Diploma; University of New Orleans-Munich.

2001-present  Reviews Editor. The Contemporary Pacific.
1999-present  Professor. University of Hawai'i-West O'ahu.
1999-2001 Social Sciences Division Chair. University of Hawai'i-West O'ahu.
1994-99 Associate Professor  University of Hawai'i-West O'ahu.
Summer 1996  Faculty. University of Pittsburgh; Semester at Sea, South Pacific Voyage.
1992-94  Assistant Professor. University of Hawai'i-West O'ahu.
1992-present  Affiliate Graduate Faculty. University of Hawai'i-Manoa.
1991  Research Fellow. Institute for Culture and Communication; East-West Center.
1991 Affiliated Faculty. Center for Pacific Islands Studies; University of Hawai'i-Manoa.
1991 Adjunct Faculty. Community College of Micronesia.
1987-91  Dana Assistant Professor. Department of Sociology and Anthropology; Colby College.
1986-87 Visiting Assistant Professor. Department of Anthropology; University of Hawai'i-Hilo.
1984-86 Visiting Assistant Professor, Graduate Faculty. Department of Sociology. Anthropology, and
Social Work;  Idaho State University.
Summer 1983   Visiting Faculty. Women's Studies Program; 1983 University of Oregon.
Summer 1983  Graduate Teaching Fellow. Department of Anthropology; University of Oregon.
1981-82  Homer Barnett Teaching Fellow. Department of Anthropology; University of Oregon.
1977-78 Graduate Teaching Fellow. Department of Anthropology; University of Oregon.

1998  Investigator. University Research Council. Ethnographic Research: Cultural Tourism in the Federated            States of  Micronesia.
1994-95 Co-Investigator. Archival and ethnographic research: American Anthropology in Postwar Micronesia. (With Robert Kiste.)
1990-91  Co-Investigator. National Endowment for the Humanities, Interpretive Research Division. (With Linette Poyer  and Laurence Carucci.) Ethnographic and archival research: World War II in Micronesia: Islander Recollections and Representations; Pohnpei and Kosrae states.
1990 Investigator. Social Science Grants Committee; Colby College. Archival research: Pohnpei Aggression in the Contact Periods.
1989 Investigator. Interdisciplinary Grants Committee; Colby College. Ethnographic and archival Research: American Anthropologists in Micronesia.
Summer 1989  Investigator. Social Science Grants Committee; Colby College. Ethnographic research: Anger in Pohnpei.
Summer 1988  Investigator. Social Science Grants Committee; Colby College. Archival research: World War II
in Micronesia.
1987 Co-Investigator. Minorities Biomedical Research Support; University of Hawai'i - Hilo. Ethnographic and physical anthropology research: Genetics and Cultural Identity as Predictors of Obesity in Hawaiian Children.
Summer 1986  Investigator. Faculty Research Committee; Idaho  State University. Archival and ethnographic research: Ponape in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
1984 Exhibit Coordinator. Oregon State Museum of Anthropology. Chautauqua exhibit: Oregon and the Pacific Rim.
1983 Research Assistant. Oregon State Museum of Anthropology. National Endowment for the Humanities exhibit: The Dalles: Ancient Fishery and Trade Center.
Summer 1982  Investigator. Lane County, Oregon Department of Transportation. Armitage Bridge Site (35IA354): Test Excavation and Request for Determination of Eligibility.
1980-81 Investigator. U.S. Trust Territory Historic Preservation Office. Archival, ethnographic, and archaeological research: Ethnohistory and Archaeology of Wene, Pohnpei; Pohnpei Knowledge and Epistemology; Pohnpei Personhood and Gender.
Summer 1980  Co-Investigator. U.S. Trust Territory Historic Preservation Office. Ethnographic and archaeological research: Ponape Archaeology Survey.
Summer 1979  Co-Investigator. U.S. Trust Territory Historic Preservation Office. Ethnographic and archaeological research: Ponape Archaeology Survey.
1979 Archaeological Assistant. University of Southern Mississippi. Archaeological field and laboratory research.
Summer 1976  Independent research. University of New Orleans.  Statistical analysis of archaeological data.
Summer 1975  Fieldworker. University of New Orleans.  Excavation of Little Oak Island.
Summer 1973  Folklore researcher. University of New Orleans - Munich. Ethnographic research: Munich Cemeteries.

2001 Memories of War: Micronesians in World War II. (With Linette Poyer and Laurence Carucci. Book manuscript in preparation.)
2001 Archiving Jack Fisher's Micronesian Fieldnotes. In Return to Sender. Sjoerd Jaarsma, ed. (Chapter in edited book in press, University of Pittsburg Press.)
2001 Time Traces: Cultural Memory and World War II in Pohnpei, Micronesia. (With James West Turner.) (Article in press, The Contemporary Pacific.)
2001 The Impact of the Pacific War on Modern Micronesian Identity. (With Linette Poyer and Laurence Carucci. In Pacific Island Societies in a Global World. Victoria Lockwood, ed. (Article in edited book in press, Prentice-
Hall.)
2001 The Typhoon of War: Micronesian Experiences in WWII. (With Linette Poyer and Laurence Carucci.) Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
1999 American Anthropology and Micronesia: The Context.(With Robert Kiste.) In American Anthropology in Micronesia. Robert Kiste and Mac Marshall, eds. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
1995 The Greatest Hardship: Islander Recollections of World War II in Micronesia. (With Linette Poyer
and Laurence M. Carucci.) Isla. Rainy Season.
1995 Americans in Paradise: Custom, Democracy, and Anthropology in Postwar Micronesia. Special Theme Issue of Ethnology: Politics of Culture in the Pacific, edited by Richard Feinberg and Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi, 34(2), Spring.
1993 Tying the Knot in Pohnpei. In The Business of Marriage: Transformations in Oceanic Matrimony. Richard Marksbury, ed. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
1992 Transforming Knowledge: Western Schooling in the Pacific. Editor. (With Paula Levin.) Theme Issue. Anthropology and Education Quarterly 23(1), March.
1992 Introduction. (With Paula Levin.) In Transforming Knowledge: Western Schooling in the Pacific. Suzanne Falgout and Paula Levin, eds. Theme Issue. Anthropology and Education Quarterly 23(1), March.
1992 Hierarchy vs. Democracy: Two Strategies for the Management of Knowledge in Pohnpei. In Transforming Knowledge: Western Schooling in the Pacific. Suzanne Falgout and Paula Levin, eds. Theme Issue. Anthropology and Education Quarterly 23(1), March.
1991 Getting to the Truth of the Matter: Prospects and Limitations of Oral Tradition for Archaeological Interpretation in Pohnpei, Micronesia. Micronesica.
1990 Lessons of War from Pohnpei. In Remembering the Pacific War. Geoffrey White, ed. Honolulu: Pacific Islands Studies Occasional Papers.
1989 From Passive Pawns to Political Strategists: Wartime Lessons for the People of Pohnpei. In The Pacific Theater: Islander Representations of World War II. Geoffrey M. White and Lamont Lindstrom, eds. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. (This volume was awarded the 1992 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize, Tokyo.)
1987 Master Part of Heaven: The Ethnohistory and Archaeology of Wene, Pohnpei. Eastern Caroline Islands. Micronesian Archaeological Survey Reports, No. 22. Saipan: U.S. Trust Territory Historic Preservation Office.
1986 Pohnpei Bibliography. Micronesian Area Research Center (MARC) Working Papers. No. 47. Guam: University of Guam.
1985 Ponapean Ethnohistory. In Ponape Settlement Archaeology. William S. Ayres and Alan E.
Haun, eds. Micronesian Archaeological Survey Reports, No. 8. Saipan: U.S. Trust Territory Historic Preservation Office.
1984 Persons and Knowledge in Ponape. Ph.D. dissertation: University Microfilms International.
1979 Site Descriptions. In Predictive Model of Archaeological Site Identification in the Central Leaf River Basin. Mississippi. Thomas Padgett and David Heisler, eds. Jackson: Mississippi Department of Archives and History. (With Jane Trepagnier.)

2000 Time Traces: Cultural Memories of World War II in Pohnpei, Micronesia. (With James West Turner.)
American Anthropological Association; San Francisco, CA.
2000 Archiving the Past. Annual Meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania;
Vancouver, B.C.
1999 Who Owns Cultural Knowledge? Annual Meetings of The Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania; Hilo, Hawai'i.
1998 Who Owns Cultural Knowledge? Annual Meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania; Pensacola, Florida.
1997 From the Oral to the Written and Back Again: Emergent Histories of World War II in Pohnpei.
International Conference on Popular Culture in the Pacific; Honolulu, Hawai'i.
1995 The Importance of World War II in Pohnpei. Annual Meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania meetings; Tampa, Florida. (Paper presented in absentia.)
1994 It's Not Important?: World War II in Pohnpei, Micronesia. Annual Meetings of the Association
for Social Anthropology in Oceania meetings; San Diego, California.
1993 Americans in Paradise. Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association meetings:
Washington, D.C. (Paper presented in absentia.)
1993 American Anthropology in Micronesia: The Context. (With Robert Kiste.) Pacific Island Studies Conference; Honolulu, Hawai'i.
1993 It's Not Important: World War II in Pohnpei, Micronesia. Annual Meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania meetings; Kona, Hawai'i.
1993 World War II in Micronesia. Professional Development Day, University of Hawai'i-West O'ahu; Honolulu, Hawai'i.
1992 The Greatest Hardship: World War II in Micronesia. Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association; San Francisco, Ca.
1992 Micronesia: Colonizing and Decolonizing. Hawai'i and Pacific Islands Studies Institute, Kapiolani Community College; Honolulu, Hawai'i.
1992 Pohnpei Sickness and Health. Kapiolani Community
College International Festival: Horizons East and West; Honolulu, Hawai'i.
1992 Legitimate Violence: Changing Patterns of Aggression in Pohnpei. Annual Meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania; New Orleans. Louisiana.
1991 Micronesian Memories of War. (With Laurence M. Carucci and Linette Poyer.) East-West Center; Honolulu, Hawai'i.
1990 American Anthropologists: Keeping Micronesian Traditions in Trust. Annual Meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania; Kaua'i, Hawai'i.
1989 From Behind the Bamboo Curtain: Micronesian Islanders in the Modern World. Women's Literary Guild; Portland, Maine.
1989 American Anthropologists in Post-War Micronesia. Annual Meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania; San Antonio, Texas.
1989 Schooling and Transformation in Pohnpei. Comparative World Studies Colloquium; Colby College.
1988 Hierarchy vs. Democracy. Two Strategies for the Management of Knowledge in Pohnpei. Annual Meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania; Savannah, Georgia.
1988 The Women Left Behind: Changes in Pohnpei Women's Identity in WWII. Women's Studies Colloquium; Colby College.
1988 Pohnpei in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. Southwestern Maine Colby Alumnae; Portland, Maine.
1988 Education and Transformation in Pohnpei, Micronesia. University of Chicago Colloquium; Chicago, Ill.
1988 Cultural Encounters: Pohnpei in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. Conference on Cultural Encounters in the Pacific War; East-West Center; Honolulu, Hawai'i.
1987 Hierarchy vs. Democracy: Two Approaches to the Management of Knowledge in Pohnpei. Annual Meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania; Monterey, California.
1987 Getting to the Truth of the Matter: Prospects and Limitations of Oral Traditions for Archaeological Interpretation in Pohnpei, Micronesia.  Micronesia Archaeology Conference and Indo-Pacific Prehistory Meetings; Agana, Guam.
1987 Two Strategies for the Management of Knowledge in Pohnpei. Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association; Chicago, Ill.
1986 From Passive Pawns to Political Strategists: Wartime Lessons for the People of Pohnpei. Annual Meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania; New Harmony, Indiana.
1986 The Women Left Behind: Pohnpei in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. Northwest Anthropology Conference; Moscow, Idaho.
1985 The Quiet of the Fierce Barracuda: Anger in Ponape. Annual Meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania; Salem, Massachusetts.
1984 The Decline of the Ponapean Nightcrawler: The Introduction of Marijuana in Ponape. Annual Meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania; Kaunakakai (Moloka'i), Hawai'i. (Paper presented in absentia.)
1984 Ambiguity and Interpretation: A Ponapean Example. Northwest Anthropology Conference; Spokane, Washington.
1984 A Clash of Epistemologies: The Management of Knowledge in Ponape. Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association; Denver, Co.
1983 Historical Narrative, Persons, and Secrecy in Ponape. Annual Meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania; New Harmony, Indiana.
1983 Persons and Knowledge in Ponape. Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association; Chicago, Illinois.

2001 Participant. TALENT 101; Workshop for on-line teaching. ITS, University of Hawai`i; Honolulu.
2000 Participant. American Anthropological Association; San Francisco, CA.
2000 Participant. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania meetings; Vancouver, B.C.
1999 Participant. Out of Oceania. Center for Pacific Studies workshop; Honolulu, Hawai'i.
1999 Participant. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania meetings; Hilo, Hawai'i.
1998 Participant. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania meetings; Pensacola, Florida.
1997 Participant. Society for Hawaiian Archaeology meetings; Lihue, Kaua'i.
1997 Participant. International Conference on Popular Culture in the Pacific; Honolulu, Hawai'i.
1996 Participant. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania meetings; Kona, Hawai'i.
1995 Participant. Power and Knowledge in the Pacific. Pacific Island Studies Workshop;Honolulu,Hawai'i.
1995 Participant. Society for Hawaiian Archaeology meetings; Honolulu, Hawai'i.
1994 Participant. Historic Preservation in Micronesia. University of Hawai'i - American
Studies Program Workshop; Honolulu, Hawai'i.
1993-94 Secretary/Treasurer. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania.
1992-94 Volunteer. Pohnpei House; Honolulu, Hawai'i.
1992 Participant. Developing an Agenda for Pacific Islands Studies: A Regional Approach. University of Hawai'i - Manoa, Center for Pacific Islands Studies Workshop; Hilo, Hawai'i.
1992 Participant. University of Hawai'i-West O'ahu Teaching Excellence Workshop; Pearl City, Hawai'i.
1992 Participant. Teaching Anthropology Colloquium; Lihue, Kaua'i.
1992 Participant. Pacific Island Studies Teacher'sWorkshop; Honolulu, Hawai'i.
1992 Participant. Computer Writing Workshop; Pearl City, Hawai'i.
1990 Discussion co-leader. Roundtable: Nutrition Related Health Issues of Women in Developing Countries. (With Phyllis Stonebraker.) Society for Medical Anthropology, American Anthropological Association; New Orleans, Louisiana.
1990 Participant. Seminar: Feminism and Postmodernism. Discussion led by Pam Blake. Women's Studies Program; Colby College.
1989 Participant. Roundtable: Modernist Anthropology. Discussion led by George Marcus. Society for Psychological Anthropology, American Anthropological Association; Washington, D.C.
1989 Chair. Session: Women in Religion. Women's Conference; Colby College.
1989 Participant. Writing Discourse Communities. Writing Across the Curriculum Program; Colby College.
1988 Participant. Roundtable: The Ethnographic Experience. Discussion led by Edward Bruner.
Society for Psychological Anthropology, American Anthropological Association; Phoenix, Arizona.
1988 Co-Organizer. Session: Schooling and Transformation in the South Pacific. Annual Meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania; Savannah, Georgia.
1988 Participant. Assignment Writing Workshop. Writing Across the Curriculum; Colby College.
1988 Participant. Seminar: Some Thoughts on the Masculinity of Science. Discussion led by Ruth Hubbard. Women's Studies Program; Colby College.
1987 Co-Organizer. Session: Archaeological Models and Cultural Information. Micronesian Archaeology Conference and the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Meetings; Agana, Guam.
1987 Co-Organizer. Session: Schooling and the Transformation of Pacific Societies. Annual Meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania; Monterey, California.
1986 Organizer. Session: Schooling and Culture Change in Oceania. Annual Meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania; New Harmony, Indiana.
1985 Consulting Lecturer. Secondary Social Science Teachers Conference; Idaho Regions 4, 5, 6.
1985 Chair. Session: Ways of Teaching, Ways of Learning. Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association; Washington, D.C.

Blind reviews: American Anthropologist
American Ethnologist
The Contemporary Pacific
Isla
Montana Academy of Science
National Endowment for the Humanities
Pacific Studies
University of Hawai'i Press
Wenner-Gren

2001 Strong, Beret E. and Cinta Matagolai Kapat.  Lieweila: A Micronesian Story. (With James
West Turner.) (Reviewed for Pacific Studies.)
2000 van Bremen, Jan and Akitoshi Shimizu, eds.  Anthropology and Colonialism in Asia and the
Pacific. Curzon Press. (Reviewed for Journal of Asian History.)
1994 Flinn, Juliana. Diplomas and Thatch Houses:  Asserting Tradition in Changing Micronesia.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. (Reviewed for Contemporary Pacific, 6(2), Fall.)
1991 Lutz, Catherine A. Unnatural Emotions: Everyday Sentiments on a Micronesian Atoll and Their Challenge to Western Theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.   (Reviewed for Oceania, 62(l), September).
1991 Ward, Martha. Nest in the Wind. NY: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. (Reviewed for Pacific Studies, March.)
1989 Laracy, Hugh and Geoffrey White, eds. Taem Blong Faet: World War II in Melanesia. O'O: A Journal of Solomon Islands Studies 4, 1988. and White, Geoffrey et al., eds. The Big Death: Solomon Islanders Remember World War II. Suva,Fiji: University of the South Pacific, 1988. (Jointly reviewed for The Contemporary Pacific 2(1).
1989 Hanlon, David. Upon a Stone Altar. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. (Reviewed for American Ethnologist 16(4):815-816.

American Anthropological Association
Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania
Society for Hawaiian Archaeology

Pohnpei fluent; reading, writing, speaking
French two years of study; reading
Hawaiian one semester of study; reading, writing, speaking
Samoan phonemic analysis
 

Oceania
Louisiana Cajuns and Creoles
History of Anthropological Theory
Psychological Anthropology
Research Methods
Women and Anthropology
Language and Culture
Symbolism and Semantics
Human Emotions
Politics of Culture
International Tourism

Undergraduate:
Introduction to Anthropology
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Nature of Language
Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Pacific Exploration: Hawaii and Micronesia Field Experience
Pacific Island Cultures
Peoples and Cultures of Southeast Asia
Peoples and Cultures of East Asia
Ethnolinguistics
Ethnographic Field Methods
Human Emotions
History of Anthropology
Psychological Anthropology
Linguistic Analysis
Seminar in Human Development
Politics of Culture
International Tourism
Margaret Mead and Samoa

Graduate:
Seminar in Ethnography and Ethnology
Seminar in Language and Culture

Dr. William S. Ayres
Department of Anthropology
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon 97403

Dr. Paula Levin
Teacher Education Program
University of California-San Diego
LaJolla, California 92093-0070

Dr. Craig Severance
Social Sciences Division
University of Hawai'i - Hilo
Hilo, Hawai'i 96720

Dr. Geoffrey White
Dean of Students
East-West Center
1777 East-West Road
Honolulu, Hawai'i