Faculty - Educational Administration, University of Hawaiʻi

EDEA Faculty

The faculty consists of educational professionals dedicated to teaching, research, and service that informs and enhances the work of K-12 and higher education institutions in the State, nation, and Pacific Region. The faculty is actively engaged in providing leadership within the College, University, and affiliated professional organizations.

Their collective professional experience provides for the delivery of a strong, integrated curriculum of professional preparation in leadership, student, faculty, and staff diversity, student development, legal and fiscal issues, history of education, and research, as well as advanced doctoral seminars on past and current K-12 and postsecondary educational issues and scholarship and educational futurities.

Chris Lucas Chair

Interests: Leadership Theories and Models; Professional Development; Student Affairs; Higher Education

(808) 956-4119 cmlucas@hawaii.edu

Ethan Chang Assistant Professor

Interests: Collaborative Community-Based Research; Critical Race and Ethnic Studies; Organizations; Learning

change3@hawaii.edu

Walter Kahumoku Associate Professor

Interests: Indigenous and Hawaiian Culture-Based Education; Public Policy Impacting the Education of Native Learners; Indigenous-Aboriginal-Native Leadership; History of Education in Hawaiʻi; Indigenous-Aboriginal-Native Research Methodologies

(808) 956-4244 wk@hawaii.edu

Nicole Reyes Associate Professor

Interests: Higher Education; Issues of Indigeneity; Faculty and Students of Color; Minority Serving Institutions; Qualitative Research Methods

reyesn4@hawaii.edu

Derek Taira Associate Professor

Interests: Politics of Education; 20th Century Social and Cultural American History; History of American Education; History of Education in Hawaiʻi; History of Territorial Hawaiʻi; Settler Colonialism

derekst@hawaii.edu

Erin Kahunawaikaʻala Wright Associate Professor

Interests: Native Hawaiian Higher Educational Journeys; Indigenous Student Success; Higher Education

(808) 956-4116 ewright@hawaii.edu