University of Hawaii Press

01/24/2025

Check out this book launch on February 1. (UHP distributes Whose Future? for North Beach West Maui Benefit Fund.)

Explore community planning and resilience in West Maui with author Lisa Huynh Eller as she discusses her book, "Whose Future? Community Planning in West Maui."

Drawing from archival research and the public record, Lisa reports on the community process that shaped land-use plans in and for West Maui. This book captures what unfolded during the COVID pandemic, through climate change and before the August 2023 fire.

Whose Future? highlights the intersection of community voices, planning processes, and the forces shaping West Maui's future.

01/22/2025

PBS Hawai‘i premieres the film "Kai Piha: Diamond Head Makai" on Thursday, January 23 at 8:30pm. Directed and produced by Ann Marie Kirk, the film features historian John R. K. Clark, whose UHP books focus on the beaches and shores of Hawai‘i and, more recently, on the mo‘olelo (stories) behind Hawaiian-language place-names.

The first documentary in the Kai Piha series, Ka‘ahele Ma Waikīkī, was a wide-ranging tour of the shores of Waikīkī, much of it based on John Clark's book, Hawaiian Surfing: Traditions of the Past ( https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/hawaiian-surfing-traditions-from-the-past/ ). Produced in 2017 for the Hawai‘i Department of Education, Ka‘ahele Ma Waikīkī is freely available for viewing on the HIDOE Vimeo site: https://vimeo.com/241956835

01/01/2025

One of the University of Hawaii at Manoa's top 2024 news stories is about UHM anthropology professor Christopher Bae's groundbreaking research that led to the discovery of a possible new human species. https://buff.ly/3DDYSyA
He recently gave a wide-ranging "Evolution Soup" interview https://buff.ly/4gZN0p9 on Homo juluensis and the topics covered in his UHP book, THE PALEOANTHROPOLOGY OF EASTERN ASIA. For more on the book: https://buff.ly/41QLYaB

UHNews.org posted nearly 1,500 stories in the very eventful 2024. Here are the top 10 UH Mānoa stories of the year.

12/17/2024

We're pleased to have two titles on the list of Choice Reviews 2024 Outstanding Academic Titles:
• CORONASUR: Asian Religions in the Covidian Age; edited by Emily Zoe Hertzman, Natalie Lang, Erica M. Larson, and Carola E. Lorea (https://buff.ly/3HA7jdq)
• FEATHERED GODS AND FISHHOOKS: The Archaeology of Ancient Hawai‘i, Revised Edition; Patrick Vinton Kirch with Mark D. McCoy (https://buff.ly/3FFGTFX)
Only thirteen percent of the more than 3,400 titles reviewed by CHOICE in the past year received this honor of being the "best of the best"!
https://buff.ly/4fZ2hXc

12/06/2024

Happening soon: Friday, Dec. 6 at 10am! Sign up for this Zoom session, "Discovering Conflict, Finding Peace – in Community Stories of WWII" with Gail Okawa and A. Ka`ōlinokaimana Yasuoka. Dr. Okawa is the author of REMEMBERING OUR GRANDFATHERS' EXILE: US Imprisonment of Hawai‘i’s Japanese in World War II (UHP, 2020).

12/06/2024

Don’t miss the Talk and Book Launch for Passing, Posing, Persuasion: Cultural Production and Coloniality in Japan's East Asian Empire.

Join Dr. Christina Yi (University of British Columbia) and Dr. Andre Haag (University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa) for a compelling discussion on cultural production, identity, and colonial narratives in Japan's East Asian empire (1895–1945).

See the images below for full event details.

11/25/2024

Discover how medieval Asian Buddhists understood and engaged with their environments in Jason Protass's (and coeditor Jeffrey Moser's) Countless Sands. This volume bridges Buddhist history and environmental analysis, offering fresh perspectives on historical practices. Get 30% off your copy here: https://go.hawaii.edu/bXG
(Use coupon code AAR24)

11/24/2024

Meet the authors of The New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions, Matthew McMullen and Jolyon Baraka Thomas, along with contributor, Kaitlyn Ugoretz, at ! This highly anticipated guide is now available. Order with code AAR24 by February 28, 2025, and save 30%: https://go.hawaii.edu/zkb

11/23/2024

We were thrilled to connect with Seong Uk Kim, professor of Korean Culture and Religion, during his visit to our booth. His debut book, Monks and Literati, is out now! Don’t miss your chance to order at 30% off: go.hawaii.edu/bke

11/21/2024

Here's an opportunity to meet Dr. Billy Bergin at the Paniolo Preservation Society at Pukalani Stables on each Saturday in December. We are so pleased to bring his fourth and final volume in the LOYAL TO THE LAND series to its beautiful, tangible, conclusion!

Join us on three Saturdays in December, for a book embossing with Dr. Billy Bergin! We hope to see you all here at the Paniolo Preservation Society. December 7, 14, and 21, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

11/14/2024

The search is on for a permanent UH Press director & publisher!

UH Press is looking for a new leader for Hawaiʻi's only scholarly publisher.

11/09/2024

If you're at the American Folklore Society conference, visit the The Scholar's Choice exhibit to see not only Phllip McArthur's Dialogues of a Trickster, but also browse An Ocean of Wonder (Sherilyn Kuualoha Hoomanawanui, Joyce Pualani Warren, Cristina Bacchilega); Tattoo Traditions of Asia (Lars Krutak - The Tattoo Hunter), and Ka Po‘e Mo‘o Akua (Marie Alohalani Brown).

In Albuquerque at the American Folklore Society we've met University of Hawaii Press author Phillip McArthur, pictured below with his book Dialogues with a Trickster: On the Margins of Myth and Ethnography in the Marshall Islands

10/23/2024

One more chance to catch Caren Loebel-Fried in person, at this Saturday's Hawaii Island Festival of Birds in Hilo, before she leaves for Midway Atoll to join the albatross count for three months!

HIFB will take place on October 26 from 9am to 5:30pm at the Grand Naniloa Hotel Hilo. Schedule is coming soon. In the meantime, here’s a peek at what you can look forward to at the 2024 festival! Media: Download the Press Release Merch: Check out the 2024 HIFB Shirt Promotion: Download the 2024 H...