Full-Time Faculty
|
|
Dr. Douglas Askman holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. He teaches courses in: Modern European History, Hawaiian History, and Spanish Civil War. His research interests include Spanish Carlism and the late monarchy period of Hawai'i. He is currently working on the politics of the late 19th century Hawaiian nationalist, Robert Wilcox. Askman, Douglas Ph.D. Office Location: Email: daskman@hpu.edu Curriculum Vitae (PDF) |
|
|
Dr. Pierre Asselin holds a Ph.D. from University of Hawaii at Manoa, and is the author of A Bitter Peace: Washington, Hanoi, and the Making of the Paris Agreement (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002). Recent publications include “The Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the 1954 Geneva Conference: A Revisionist Critique” in Cold War History (2011); “Revisionism Triumphant: Hanoi’s Diplomatic Strategy in the Nixon Era” in Journal of Cold War Studies (2011); “‘We Don’t Want a Munich’: Hanoi’s Diplomatic Strategy, 1965-1968” in Diplomatic History (2012); and several book reviews. His second book, tentatively entitled Hanoi’s Road to the Vietnam War, 1954-1965, is forthcoming from the University of California Press. Dr. Asselin is a specialist of East and Southeast Asian diplomatic history. He teaches courses on U.S. diplomatic history, the Middle East, the International History of the Cold war, and the theory and practice of diplomacy. Asselin, Pierre, Ph.D. Office Location: Email: passelin@hpu.edu Curriculum Vitae (PDF) |
|
|
Brenden Bliss, M.A. Curriculum Vitae (PDF) |
|
|
Dr. Jon Davidann is a graduate of University of Minnesota. Currently he teaches courses in U.S., Japanese, and World History including the History of Oil and the History of Economic Crisis. Dr. Davidann’s research specialty is U.S.-Japanese relations and world history. He is the author several books on U.S.-Japanese relations and most recently co-authored a textbook called Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History, published by Pearson in April 2012. Here are his other books: Edited Book, Hawai`i at the Crossroads of the U.S. and Japan before the Pacific War, edited by Jon Davidann, University of Hawai`i Press, September 2008. Book, Cultural Diplomacy in U.S.- Japanese Relations, 1919-1941, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, December 2007. Edited Book, TransPacific Relations: America, Europe, and Asia in the Twentieth Century, edited by Jon Davidann, Richard Jensen, and Yone Sugita, Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2003. Book, A World of Crisis and Progress: The American YMCA in Japan, 1890-1930, Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press and Associated University Presses, April 1998. He regularly does book and manuscript reviews for the Journal of American History and the Pacific Historical Review. He has done expert interviews on Hawaii Public Radio, TV Sweden, and Thinktech Hawaii on oil issues. He has also spoken on recent Japanese elections and on the Pacific War. He regularly serves as discussion leader for the HPU film series Viewpoints. Davidann, Jon Ph.D. Curriculum Vitae (PDF) |
|
|
Dr. Marc Gilbert holds a Ph.D. from University of California at Los Angeles. In 1995, HPU was awarded a $575,000 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) challenge grant. The fund underwrites the University’s first NEH endowed chair in world history. Dr. Gilbert plans to develop new courses in world history at HPU and build bridges between the University and the local community. Dr. Gilbert has published extensively as an academic author, co-author, and editor, including World Civilizations: The Global Experience (now in its fifth edition) and several works on the intersection of Vietnamese and American history. In 1999, Gilbert won a “Silver Telly” Award for a documentary on homeless Vietnam era combat veterans titled Lost Warriors, which he co-wrote and co-produced. Gilbert, Marc Ph.D. NEH Endowed Chair of World History Office Location: Email: mgilbert@hpu.edu |
|
|
Dr. Allison Gough holds a Ph.D. from Ohio State University. She currently teaches courses in U.S. history, African-American history, Race, Sex and Gender, and the Atlantic World. Dr. Gough’s research interests include anti-slavery and civil rights movements. She is currently studying African-American troops in the WWII U.S. Military. Her publications include Messing Up Another Country’s Customs: The Exportation of American Racism in World War Two. Gough, Allison Ph.D. Office Location: |
|
|
Hart, Russell Ph.D. Professor of History Email: rhart@hpu.edu |
|
|
Sunny Kang earned his M.A. degree in History and is currently a Ph.D candidate at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His fields of study include: Race and Politics in Early America, The Black Radical Tradition and Critical Theory, Recent American and Popular Culture, and European Intellectual History. He teaches courses in World Civilizations, U.S. History, Play and Leisure in World History, Race and Ethnicity in America. His research interests include the semiotics of body scarification and tattooing. Kang, Sung “Sunny” Office Location: Email: skang@hpu.edu |
|
|
Dr. Linda Lierheimer earned her Ph.D. from Princeton University. She currently teaches courses in Renaissance and reformation history, early modern France and gender studies. Dr. Lierheimer’s research is in women and religion on the Reformation era. She has a book in progress titled Women of Eloquence: Ursuline Nuns in Seventeenth Century France. Among her published articles are “Preaching or Teaching? Defining the Ursuline Mission in Seventeenth-Century France.” Lierheimer, Linda Ph.D. Office Location: Email: llierheimer@hpu.edu |
|
|
Schuster, Carl, Captain (USN, Retired) Office Location: |
|
|
Vance, Justin, Ed.D. Office Location: Email: jvance@hpu.edu |
|
|
Zanella, William Ph.D. Office Location: Email: wzanella@hpu.edu |
