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MEDIA RELEASE The Mellon-Hawaii Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Native Hawaiian doctoral and postdoctoral scholars has received funding for an additional three years. The Kohala Center recently received $500,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to continue the program, and is now accepting applications for the 2011-12 academic year. “This is a significant commitment […]

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MEDIA RELEASE University of Hawaii doctoral scholar and Mellon Hawaii Fellow Sydney Iaukea has signed a contract with University of California Press to publish a book based on her 2008 doctoral dissertation, “E Paa Oukou: Holding and Remembering Hawaiian Understanding of Place and Politics.” The manuscript, to be published in mid-2011, examines land laws and […]

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MEDIA RELEASE The Mellon-Hawaii Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowship Program provides Native Hawaiian scholars the opportunity to complete dissertations or to publish original research. Applications for the 2009-2010 fellowship program are being accepted by The Kohala Center. The program supports Native Hawaiian scholars who are early in their academic careers and others who are committed to […]

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