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| Jaime Uluwehi Hopkins
Postdoctoral Fellow
Environmental Humanities
Universität Augsburg (Germany)
I speak in the following language(s): English, Hawaiian
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About |
-Adjunct Professor at the University of Hawaiʻi-West Oʻahu, specializing in the History of Hawaiʻi and World History.
-Currently (as of 2026) engaged as a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Humanities at the Universität Augsburg in Germany.
-Served on the Board of Trustees for the Hawaiian Historical Society, based in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi (2022-2025). |
Specialities |
Anti-colonial, Archives, Cosmology, Comparative Studies, Cultural Education, Cultural Studies, Environmental History, Historical Linguistics, History, Indigenous Cosmologies, Indigenous Knowledge, Land Ownership, Land Tenure, Local Ecological Knowledge, Myths And Legends, Oral History, Oral Tradition, Voyaging, Water, Water Resources, Women's Leadership |
Discipline(s) |
History
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Geographic administrative areas |
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Geographic places |
Polynesia
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Historical periods |
Ancestral Oceania
First and Early contacts
The Colonial time
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Indigenous languages |
Hawaiian |
Experiences |
Masters Research (2007 to 2012)
— University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Field: Hawaiian Studies
Thesis: Hānau ma ka Lolo, For the Benefit of Her Race: A Portrait of Emma Kailikapuolono Metcalf Beckley Nakuina.
Examined the genealogy of Emma Nakuina, along with her literary pursuits, and an especially challenging event in her life.PhD Research (2012 to 2022)
— University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Field: History of Hawaiʻi before 1900
Dissertation: Kāneikawaiola ma Mānoa: The Life-Giving Waters of Mānoa and a History of Water Rights in Hawaiʻi from Antiquity to 1900.
Focused on the history of water and water management practices in Hawaiʻi, and examining the conflicts that emerged once land ownership affected those practices. |
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