Michael Yellow Bird
Dawn Martin-Hill
Robert Warrior
J. Kehaulani Kauanui
Sandy Grande
Carmen Lopez

Besides teaching as an associate professor, J. Kehaulani Kauanui (Native Hawaiian) is also the host and producer of a radio program, "Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond," at WESU, Middletown, CT. She is also part of a steering committee that will found the Association for Native American and Indigenous Studies this April 2008. She is the 2008 president of the New England American Studies Association.

Kauanui has numerous publications. She has co-edited special journal issues: "Migrating Feminisms" Women's Studies International Forum (1998);"Native Pacific Cultural Studies on the Edge," The Contemporary Pacific (2001); and "Women Writing Oceania: Weaving the Sails of the Waka," Pacific Studies (forthcoming). Her first book, Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Indigeneity and Sovereignty, is forthcoming from Duke University Press in 2008. She is currently co-editing a book with Andrea Lee Smith, Native Feminisms Without Apology (under review, University of Minnesota Press) and is currently embarking on two new book monographs: Native Hawaiian Feminist Decolonization that explores gender politics in indigenous Hawaiian nationalist struggles, and Hawaiian New England: The Grammar of American Colonialism. Her scholarship appears in the following journals: American Indian Quarterly, Social Text, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, American Studies, Comparative American Studies, The Hawaiian Journal of History, Mississippi Review, Amerasia Journal, , and Women’s Studies International Forum. Along with Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Kauanui is the co-editor of a new e-journal Critical Indigenous Studies, which will be launched in May 2008. She sits on a number of editorial boards, including: American Indian Quarterly; Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism; Journal of Pacific History; and Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific.