This page lists notable faculty of the
University of HawaiiThe University of Hawaii System, formally the University of Hawaii and popularly known as UH, is a public, co-educational college and university system that confers associate, bachelor, master, doctoral and post-doctoral degrees through three university campuses, seven community college campuses,...
. Faculty who are also alumni are listed in bold font, with degree and year in parenthesis.
- Roger Ames, Philosopher
- Asa Baber
Asa Baber was an American author, former Marine, and columnist for Playboy.Growing up on the South Side of Chicago, Baber was involved in several incidents of petty mischief before his grandmother arranged for him to attend the Lawrenceville Academy, a prestigious boarding school in New Jersey...
, Writer
- Georg von Békésy
Georg von Békésy was a Hungarian biophysicist born in Budapest.In 1961, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on the function of the cochlea in the mammalian hearing organ...
, 1961 Nobel Laureate
- Derek Bickerton
Derek Bickerton is a linguist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. Based on his work in creole languages in Guyana and Hawaii, he has proposed that the features of creole languages provide powerful insights into the development of language both by individuals and as a...
, Linguist
- Wing-tsit Chan
Professor Wing-tsit Chan was one of the world's leading scholars of Chinese philosophy and religion, active in the United States....
, Philosopher
- Irving Copi
Irving Marmer Copi was an American philosopher, logician, and university textbook author....
, Philosopher
- Milton Diamond
Milton Diamond is a professor of anatomy and reproductive biology at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. He has had a very long and productive career in the study of human sexuality.-Early career:...
, Sex Researcher
- Leon Edel
Joseph Leon Edel was a North American literary critic and biographer. He was the elder brother of North American philosopher Abraham Edel....
, Author
- Nina Etkin
Nina L. Etkin was an anthropologist and biologist. Dr. Etkin was noted for her work in medical anthropology, ethnobiology, and ethnopharmacology. She studied the relation between food and health for over thirty years...
, Ethnobotanist
- Ben Finney
Ben Rudolph Finney is an American anthropologist known for his expertise in the history and cultural and social anthropology of surfing, Polynesian navigation and canoe sailing, and in the cultural and social anthropology of human space colonization...
(M.A. 1959), professor of anthropology, co-founder of the Polynesian Voyaging SocietyThe Polynesian Voyaging Society is a non-profit research and educational corporation based in Honolulu, Hawaii. PVS was established to research and perpetuate traditional Polynesian voyaging methods...
- Kevin Fitzgerald
Kevin Terrel Fitzgerald , a board certified veterinarian who works at Alameda East Veterinary Hospital in his native Denver, Colorado is best known through his visibility on the Animal Planet reality show Emergency Vets and, more recently, E-Vet Interns. Fitzgerald also does stand-up comedy and a...
, former adjunct professor and currently a celebrity veterinarian
- Candace Fujikane, English Professor
- Louis Herman
Louis Herman is a researcher of dolphin sensory abilities, dolphin cognition, and humpback whales. He is currently professor in the Department of Psychology and a cooperating faculty member of the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaii at Manoa...
, Cetacean Researcher
- James Oliver Horton, History Professor
- Lee Jong-Wook
Lee Jong-wook was the Director-General of the World Health Organization for three years.He was born 12 April 1945 in Seoul, South Korea. Lee obtained a medical degree from Seoul National University, then enrolled at the University of Hawaii to study public health, earning a Master's degree...
, Director-General of the WHO
- Ralph Simpson Kuykendall
Ralph Simpson Kuykendall was an American historian who served as the trustee and secretary of the Hawaiian Historical Society from 1922 until its dissolution in 1932. Kuykendall also served as professor of history at the University of Hawaii at Manoa...
, History Professor
- William Meredith
William Morris Meredith, Jr. was an American poet and educator. He was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1978 to 1980.-Early years:...
, Poet
- W. Wesley Peterson
William Wesley Peterson, PhD was an American mathematician and computer scientist...
, 1999 Japan Prize winner for Information Technologies
- R.J.
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This page lists notable faculty of the
University of HawaiiThe University of Hawaii System, formally the University of Hawaii and popularly known as UH, is a public, co-educational college and university system that confers associate, bachelor, master, doctoral and post-doctoral degrees through three university campuses, seven community college campuses,...
. Faculty who are also alumni are listed in bold font, with degree and year in parenthesis.
- Roger Ames, Philosopher
- Asa Baber
Asa Baber was an American author, former Marine, and columnist for Playboy.Growing up on the South Side of Chicago, Baber was involved in several incidents of petty mischief before his grandmother arranged for him to attend the Lawrenceville Academy, a prestigious boarding school in New Jersey...
, Writer
- Georg von Békésy
Georg von Békésy was a Hungarian biophysicist born in Budapest.In 1961, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on the function of the cochlea in the mammalian hearing organ...
, 1961 Nobel Laureate
- Derek Bickerton
Derek Bickerton is a linguist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. Based on his work in creole languages in Guyana and Hawaii, he has proposed that the features of creole languages provide powerful insights into the development of language both by individuals and as a...
, Linguist
- Wing-tsit Chan
Professor Wing-tsit Chan was one of the world's leading scholars of Chinese philosophy and religion, active in the United States....
, Philosopher
- Irving Copi
Irving Marmer Copi was an American philosopher, logician, and university textbook author....
, Philosopher
- Milton Diamond
Milton Diamond is a professor of anatomy and reproductive biology at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. He has had a very long and productive career in the study of human sexuality.-Early career:...
, Sex Researcher
- Leon Edel
Joseph Leon Edel was a North American literary critic and biographer. He was the elder brother of North American philosopher Abraham Edel....
, Author
- Nina Etkin
Nina L. Etkin was an anthropologist and biologist. Dr. Etkin was noted for her work in medical anthropology, ethnobiology, and ethnopharmacology. She studied the relation between food and health for over thirty years...
, Ethnobotanist
- Ben Finney
Ben Rudolph Finney is an American anthropologist known for his expertise in the history and cultural and social anthropology of surfing, Polynesian navigation and canoe sailing, and in the cultural and social anthropology of human space colonization...
(M.A. 1959), professor of anthropology, co-founder of the Polynesian Voyaging SocietyThe Polynesian Voyaging Society is a non-profit research and educational corporation based in Honolulu, Hawaii. PVS was established to research and perpetuate traditional Polynesian voyaging methods...
- Kevin Fitzgerald
Kevin Terrel Fitzgerald , a board certified veterinarian who works at Alameda East Veterinary Hospital in his native Denver, Colorado is best known through his visibility on the Animal Planet reality show Emergency Vets and, more recently, E-Vet Interns. Fitzgerald also does stand-up comedy and a...
, former adjunct professor and currently a celebrity veterinarian
- Candace Fujikane, English Professor
- Louis Herman
Louis Herman is a researcher of dolphin sensory abilities, dolphin cognition, and humpback whales. He is currently professor in the Department of Psychology and a cooperating faculty member of the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaii at Manoa...
, Cetacean Researcher
- James Oliver Horton, History Professor
- Lee Jong-Wook
Lee Jong-wook was the Director-General of the World Health Organization for three years.He was born 12 April 1945 in Seoul, South Korea. Lee obtained a medical degree from Seoul National University, then enrolled at the University of Hawaii to study public health, earning a Master's degree...
, Director-General of the WHO
- Ralph Simpson Kuykendall
Ralph Simpson Kuykendall was an American historian who served as the trustee and secretary of the Hawaiian Historical Society from 1922 until its dissolution in 1932. Kuykendall also served as professor of history at the University of Hawaii at Manoa...
, History Professor
- William Meredith
William Morris Meredith, Jr. was an American poet and educator. He was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1978 to 1980.-Early years:...
, Poet
- W. Wesley Peterson
William Wesley Peterson, PhD was an American mathematician and computer scientist...
, 1999 Japan Prize winner for Information Technologies
- R.J. Rummel, Political Scientist, Democratic-Peace Theoretician
- Susan Schultz
Susan Schultz is an English professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She specializes in modern and contemporary poetry, American literature, and creative writing...
, English Professor
- Maya Soetoro-Ng
Maya Kassandra Soetoro-Ng is the maternal half-sister of Barack Obama, the President of the United States. She previously was a high school history teacher and university instructor in Hawaii.-Early life:...
, Professor/Teacher
- Thornton Wilder
Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. His best known work is his play Our Town.-Early years:...
, Author (visiting professor)
- Ryuzo Yanagimachi
Ryuzo Yanagimachi is a pioneer in the cloning field. In 1997 his laboratory at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa successfully cloned mice using the Honolulu technique...
, Geneticist