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Office Location: 1060 Bishop Street, Penthouse 3 An instrumental music educator for twenty-three years, Dr. McCreary holds a bachelor’s degree in music education from the University of Kansas ( Lawrence), a master’s degree in cello performance from the University of Texas ( Austin), and a doctorate in music education from the University of Hawaii (Manoa). She has performed as a cellist with the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria , the Bel Canto Trio in Texas, the Honolulu Symphony, the Maui Symphony and the Kona Orchestra. She has served as guest clinician and conductor for the Hawaii Youth Symphony, the University of Hawaii Orchestra, the Hawaii Department of Education, the Kamehameha Schools, and the All-South Honor Orchestra Conference at the University of Southern Mississippi. She has adjudicated for solo and ensemble festivals as well as orchestra contests for both local and mainland groups. She has served on the executive boards as President of the Hawaii Music Educators Association, the Hawaii String Teachers Association, and as a member of the Hawaii Arts First Partnership, a community consortium dedicated to arts education advocacy. |
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Office Location: 1166 Fort St. Mall, #200 Joan joined the College of Humanities and Social Sciences in 2008. She is an HPU alumnus and has been employed at HPU for numerous years, having worked in the Senior Vice President’s office, Military Campus Programs, and the Office of Institutional Advancement. Last year, Joan was a recipient of the Golden Apple staff award for exceptional service. |
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Office Location: 1188 Fort St. Mall #406
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Office Location: 1188 Fort St. Mall, #406 Prior to teaching Philosophy and Humanities at Hawaii Pacific University for over a decade, Dr. Andrews taught at the University of Hawaii and the University of California. Holding a B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy, an M.F.A. in Creative Writing, and a Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness (Philosophy) from the University of California at Santa Cruz, he has been able to pursue life long interests in social and political philosophy, ethics, and literature. You might best understand Dr. Andrews by considering what he values. (1) He often drives through vast spaces of the American West not to see but to behold Nature. (2) He loves to read philosophy and poetry while sitting in a room with his wife. (3) The mission of his whole adult life has been and continues to be conducting the work of Socrates. (4) He went around the world twice, once as a backpacker, and intends to go one more time. |
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Office Location: 1060 Bishop Street, Penthouse 2 Jocelyn Cardenas has been teaching at HPU since 1998. She teaches classroom (web enhanced) and on-line sections of HUM 1000, 3000, 3900, and 4500. She also teaches a variety of introductory literature courses including film theory and criticism. She received her B.A. from the University of San Francisco (1980) in Sociology and Political Science. In 1987, she completed an M.A. in Humanities from California State University, Dominguez Hills (1987) with independent studies on Yukio Mishima and a creative fiction project. She also holds a Master in Library and Information Studies (1996) with a focus on reference services. In 2002, she completed the M.A. in English (2002) from the University of Hawaii at Manoa focusing on narratives in electronic environments. She is currently working on her doctorate in English at UH Manoa. Her areas of interest include Victorian novel and intellectual history, Marxist literary theory, and world film. In 2007, Jocelyn completed a Directed Reading and Practicum on Victorian novelist George Eliot in Florence, Italy. In 1975, after nearly twenty years of study, she received her professional stage name or the rank of natori in Japanese classical dance. She has a passion for travel and adventure. |
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Office Location: Hawaii Loa Campus #243 Professor Feldman is an art historian and scholar. His specialization is in the arts of Tribal Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. He received his Ph.D. in tribal art history from Columbia University and has conducted field studies in remote islands of Indonesia, and Polynesia. He has studied museum collections in Europe and America and has aided in several important exhibitions including The Eloquent Dead at the Fowler Museum at UCLA, Nias Tribal Treasures at the Volkenkundig Museum Nusantara in Delft, and Beyond the Java Sea a Smithsonian sponsored traveling exhibition. He has also written books and articles and lectured extensively on Tribal Southeast Asian, Micronesian and Polynesian art and architecture. In fall 2004 he was the Slade Visiting Professor at Cambridge University, England. New publication: Invocando a los espíritus instrumentos musicales de Indonesia y Oceanía en la Collección Helena Folch, entries written by Jerome Feldman. |
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Office Location: 1060 Bishop Street, Penthouse 1 Patrick Hennessey brings a wide breadth of experience in performance, teaching, and ensemble direction to his position as the Band Director at Hawai‘i Pacific University. A native of New Orleans, Louisiana, Dr. Hennessey holds degrees in trombone performance from California State University at Long Beach and music education from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He also earned his Ph.D. in musicology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, writing his dissertation on Henry Berger (1844-1929), the longtime bandmaster of the Royal Hawaiian Band. Dr. Hennessey’s professional free-lance experience includes the touring Broadway shows A Chorus Line, Hello Dolly, Evita, Peter Pan, and Grease. He has also performed with celebrities such as Burt Bacharach, Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra, Liza Minelli, Natalie Cole, and Johnny Mathis, and recorded with Nā Hōkū Hanohano winners Hula Joe and the Hutjumpers, The Mana‘o Company, and drummer Noel Okimoto. In addition, his experience extends to the orchestral field, performing with the Lakewood Philharmonia, the Long Beach Symphony, the Honolulu Symphony, the Honolulu Symphony Pops Orchestra under the direction of Matt Catingub, and the Hawai‘i Opera Theater Orchestra. Dr. Hennessey has served as the principal trombonist of the Royal Hawaiian Band since 1983. Prior to joining the faculty at Hawai‘i Pacific University, he directed the award-winning University of Hawai‘i Jazz Ensemble program from 1983 to 2007. |
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Office Location: 1188 Fort St. Mall, Mezzanine #4 Professor Kitts received her PhD from the Joint Doctoral Program in Near Eastern Religions, at UC Berkeley and the GTU. Although her research in graduate school was on Homeric and Hittite traditions, she now writes not only on Homer, but on contemporary religious violence. She teaches in religious studies and east-west classical studies, and occasionally for the master’s program in global leadership and sustainability. Her books include Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society (Classical Studies, Cambridge University Press 2005, 2011), Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual, Volume III, co-editor (Harrassowitz 2010), Princeton Readings in Religion and Violence , co-editor with Mark Juergensmeyer (Religious Studies, Princeton University Press, 2011), and Oxford Handbook of Religion and Violence (co-editor with Mark Juergensmeyer and Michael Jerryson; forthcoming in 2012). In addition, she has written numerous scholarly articles. Some recent examples are “The Last Night: Ritualized Violence and the Last Instructions of 9/11” (Journal of Religion, 2010), “Poinē as a Ritual Leitmotif in the Iliad” (in Ritual Studies Symposium Band III (State, Power, and Violence), Harrassowitz 2010);entries on Mohamed Atta, Cosmic War, Epic of Gilgamesh, and the Ancient Near East in the Sage Encyclopedia of Global Religions (forthcoming 2011), and "Ritual Scenes in the Iliad: Rote, Hallowed, or Encrypted as Ancient Art?" (forthcoming in Oral Traditions). Publications: Princeton Readings in Religion and Violence. "Ritual Scenes in the Iliad: Rote, Hallowed, or Encrypted as Ancient Art?" Oral Tradition Journal. Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society (available from November 2011). |
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Office Location: 1132 Bishop St. #504-3 Dr. Linda Lierheimer earned her Ph.D. from Princeton University. She currently teaches courses in global humanities, European history, and gender studies. She also directs HPU’s First-Year Seminar program. Dr. Lierheimer’s research is on women and religion on the Reformation era. She is writing a book on conflicts between nuns and bishops in seventeenth-century France. Her publications include The Life of Antoinette Micolon and “Preaching or Teaching? Defining the Ursuline Mission in Seventeenth-Century France.” |
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Office Location: 1188 Fort St. Mall, #409 Matthew S. LoPresti, Ph.D. (University of Hawai‘i at Manoa) is Chair of the Asian Studies Program at Hawai‘i Pacific University and has been teaching philosophy since 1999. While at HPU (since 2004) he has expanded his teaching to include courses in religious studies and the inter-disciplinary humanities. He is currently developing a course on Yoga Philosophy. Matt had the pleasure to serve various philosophy programs around the world while a graduate student. Between 1999 and 2005 he had been invited to teach philosophy in India, Hawai‘i, Ohio, and West Virginia – where he was awarded a Pre-Doctoral Fellowship to bring Buddhist Philosophy to one of the country’s largest land-grant universities. In 2003 he was invited to serve as Lecturer of Buddhist Philosophy and Field Research Advisor for the Antioch Buddhist Studies Program in Bodh Gaya, India for American university students studying abroad. A specialist in South Asian and Comparative Philosophy as well as Philosophy of Religion, his primary area of research has been in developing a metaphysical basis for a genuine religious pluralism. He has published several articles in comparative philosophy and philosophy of religion and serves as a referee for Comparative Philosophy. He strongly encourages his undergraduates to work on publishing scholarship in his capacity as a referee for the undergraduate journal of philosophy Janua Sophia and has partnered with other private and public universities across the state as a founding Co-Chair of Hawaii’s first undergraduate philosophy conference, which is now an annual event. Currently, he is concentrating on publishing his manuscript that works towards establishing a sound basis for religious pluralism though comparative metaphysics and process philosophy. A selection of his scholarship, book reviews, and his CV can be found here. His most recent scholarship (as of August 2011) includes:
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Office Location: Hawaii Loa Campus Professor Joyce Maltby has spent her life in theatre, starting out as a seven-year old in Chicago, studying with Min Galatzer of the Actors’ Company. Her long career in theatre has taken her to many places, but except for an eight year hiatus in the 1970’s, Hawaii has been her home since 1962. She has been the head of the Theatre program at HPU since 1992. At the 1998 Po’okela award ceremony sponsored by the Hawaii State Theatre Council, she was honored with the Pierre Bowman Lifetime Achievement Award given to one individual each year for contributions to Hawaii theatre. Over the years, Joyce has been the recipient of 18 Po’okela awards for Directing and Acting. She and husband, Norm Boroughs, also have written and produced three musicals, Rosie’s Place, A Night at Rosie’s, and Aloha Rosie’s. Joyce has more than one hundred roles to her credit, including two one-woman shows, Shirley Valentine, and, Ain’t I A Woman. In addition to her stage performances, Joyce has appeared in several television shows, including Hawaii 5-0, Jake and the Fat Man, Tour of Duty, Blood and Orchids, Island Son, and Raven. She holds an M.F.A. in Theatre and is a member of the Screen Actors Guild and Actors’ Equity. |
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Office Location: 1060 Bishop Street, Penthouse 1 Dr. Esther S. Yoo is the newly appointed Assistant Professor of Music, Director of Choral Activities at Hawaii Pacific University. Dr. Yoo is also the Artistic Director of the O’ahu Choral Society and conducts both the Honolulu Symphony Chorus and Honolulu Chamber Choir. Currently, she serves as the president of the Hawaii Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association, and music director at Christ United Methodist Church. A native of Toronto, Canada, she holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Conducting from the College Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati. She received her undergraduate degree in Music Education and a Master’s degree in Conducting, both from the University of Toronto studying with Raffi Armenien and Doreen Rao. In addition, Dr. Yoo graduated with an Artist Diploma in piano performance from the Hochschule für Musik in Munich and has studied extensively with Russian pianist Vera Gornostaeva. She has appeared in festivals and masterclasses in France, Austria and Switzerland and has given recitals in Germany, France and Italy. As a conductor, Dr. Yoo was invited as a conducting fellow at the Oregon Bach Festival and Toronto Bach Festival with Maestro Helmuth Rilling. She has also participated in conducting master classes with Robert Shaw, Sir David Willcocks, Harry Christophers, Stephen Darlington and Dale Warland. Esther Yoo brings professional choral singing experience, having sung under the batons of Robert Shaw, James Levine, James Conlon and Helmuth Rilling, among others. A versatile conductor, she has worked extensively with choirs and orchestras, including University of Toronto Women’s Chorus, Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy, Blue Ash Presbyterian Church as well as Canada’s professional chamber choir, The Elmer Iseler Singers. She has previously held faculty positions at Hollins University in Virginia and University of Hawaii Manoa. Since coming to Hawaii, Dr. Yoo has conducted major choral/symphonic works with the Honolulu Symphony, Hawaii Youth Opera Chorus, Hawaii Youth Symphony and the Hawaii Symphony. As an advocate for contemporary choral music, she has premiered new choral music at every opportunity, working with her students and faculty at the University of Toronto, University of Cincinnati, University of Hawaii at Manoa, as well as two recent premiers with O’ahu Choral Society. |
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