Faculty & Staff

Interests: Policy implementation (esp. decentralization/participation and market-based reforms); Policy Borrowing and Traveling; International Organizations; Political Economy of Education Reform; Global Education Policy; Global Governance of Education; Knowledge production and mobilization

(808) 956-4242 donalde@hawaii.edu

Baoyan Cheng Graduate Chair

Interests: Comparative/International Education with special interest in Chinese education; international student mobility; equity issues in higher education ; globalization and cultural issues in education; liberal arts education in the global context

(808) 956-4246 baoyan@hawaii.edu

Marsha Ninomiya Office Manager

Interests: Ballroom dancing Traveling/Cruising

(808) 956-7817 mninomiy@hawaii.edu

Xu Di Professor

Interests: Educational Foundations, Philosophy, Multicultural and International educ., teacher education

(808) 956-0480 xudi@hawaii.edu

Dawn Furushima Faculty

Interests: Motivation, Retention, TESOL, Multiculturalism

furushim@hawaii.edu

Vara Mann Faculty

Interests: Multicultural education and cross-cultural studies

(808) 268-5119 varaporn@hawaii.edu

Alexander Means Associate Professor

Interests: Sociology of Education, Work, and Technology; Cultural Studies and Critical Theory; Politics of Education; University Studies and Academic Freedom; Environmental Education and Climate Politics; Educational Commons; Critical Pedagogies; Radical Imagination and Social Movements

(808) 956-7901 meansaj@hawaii.edu

Kekailoa Perry Associate Professor

Interests: Aloha ʻĀina Theory, Guerrilla Intellectualism, Hulikua Refusal Pedagogies, Activist-scholarship, and Sovereignty.The Intersection of race and culture in education policy, emancipatory pedagogies centered on Kanaka ʻŌiwi refusal and Guerrilla Intellectualism.

(808) 956-7328 wperry@hawaii.edu

Manca Sustarsic Faculty

Interests: International Education, Exchange Programs, Global Citizenship Education, Global Education Policy, Youth Development

msustars@hawaii.edu

Hannah Tavares Associate Professor

Interests: ; Multiculturalism and education, philosophies of race and ethnicity, feminist theory, and postfoundational research approaches to the educational world.

(808) 956-8624 hannaht@hawaii.edu