Maile Arvin | Associate Professor
Maile Arvin
Associate Professor
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About
Dr. Maile Arvin is an associate professor of History and Gender Studies at the University of Utah. She is a Native Hawaiian feminist scholar who works on issues of race, gender, science and colonialism in Hawai‘i and the broader Pacific. At the University of Utah, she is part of the leadership of the Pacific Islands Studies Initiative, which was awarded a Mellon Foundation grant to support ongoing efforts to develop Pacific Islands Studies curriculum, programming and student recruitment and support.
- BA, English, Swarthmore College.
- MA, Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego.
- PhD, Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego.
Race, gender, science and colonialism in Hawai'i and the broader Pacific.
Books:
(2019) Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawaiʻi and Oceania. Duke University Press.
Articles:
(2022) “Native Hawaiians are Confronting the Legacies of Indian Boarding Schools.” Truth-out.
(2020) “Re-framing and Refusing the Enduring Colonial Fascination with Polynesian Origins". [Website/Blog] Duke University Press.
(2020) "Possessions of Whiteness: Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness in the Pacific." In Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti- Blackness, Tiffany Lethabo King, Jenell Navarro, and Andrea Smith, eds. Duke University Press.
(2019) "Indigenous Feminist Notes on Embodying Alliance against Settler Colonialism." Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism. Vol. 18:2, 335-357.
(2019) "Mauna Kea Protests Aren’t New. They’re Part of a Long Fight Against Colonialism." Truth-Out.
(2018) "Decolonizing API: Centering Indigenous Pacific Islander Feminism." Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics, Lynn Fujiwara and Shireen Roshanravan, eds. University of Washington Press.
(2018) "Colonizing Histories and Rebranding Pocahontas." Truthout. https://truthout.org/articles/colonizing-histories...
(2018) "Polynesia is a Project, not a Place: Polynesian Proximities to Whiteness in Cloud Atlas and Beyond." Beyond Ethnicity: New Politics of Race in Hawaiʻi. eds. Camilla Fojas, Rudy Guevarra, and Nitasha Tamar Sharma. University of Hawaiʻi Press.
(2016) "The Future is Indigenous: Decolonizing Thanksgiving." Truthout.
(2016) "Sovereignty Will Not Be Funded: "Good" Indigenous Citizenship in Hawai'i's Non-profit Industrial Complex." The Scholar & Feminist. Vol. 13(2).
(2015) "The Polynesian Problem and Its Genomic Solutions." Native American Indigenous Studies. Vol. 2(2), 27-56.
(2015) "The 'Melting Pot' Vision Obscures the Struggles of Native Hawaiians." Zócalo Public Square.
(2015) "Still in the Blood: Gendered Histories of Race, Law and Science in Day v. Apoliona." American Quarterly. Vol. 67(3), 681-703.
(2015). "Acting Like a White Person Acting Like A Native: Ghostly Performances of Global Indigeneity." Critical Ethnic Studies. Vol. 1(1), 103-116.
ETHNC 3651 - 001: Histories of the Pacific
HIST 3650 - 001: Histories of the Pacific
- Honorable mention for best book in History. Association for Asian American Studies, 04/2021
- Presidential Leadership Fellowship. University of Utah, 08/2020
- 2020 Paula J. Giddings Best Article Award, awarded by Meridians editorial board for published essay, “Indigenous Feminist Notes on Embodying Alliance against Settler Colonialism.”. Meridians journal, 06/2020
- Short-term fellowship (postponed until unknown date due to pandemic) . Huntington Library, 03/2020
- Faculty Fellows Award. University of Utah, 03/2020
- ACLS Incentive Fellowship. University of Utah, 02/2019
- Participant in the Foundation Fellows Program, which supports a cohort of faculty in the acquisition of private funding to support scholarship, research, and academic program initiatives. University of Utah, 09/2018