List of University of Hawaii faculty

This article lists notable faculty of the University of Hawaii. Faculty who are also alumni are listed in bold font, with degree and year in parentheses.

• Maqsudul Alam, did the first genome sequencing of jute, rubber & papaya. And also was the director of Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics programs
• Barbara Watson Andaya, scholar of history in Southeast Asia
• Leonard Andaya, scholar of history in Southeast Asia
• Koji Ariyoshi, newspaper editor and political activist; one of the Hawaii 7
• Asa Baber, writer
• Georg von Békésy, 1961 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
• Derek Bickerton, linguist
• Allyn Bromley, artist
• Kenneth Wayne Bushnell, visual artist
• Glenn Cannon, actor
• Hampton L. Carson, biologist
• Wing-tsit Chan, philosopher
• Irving Copi, philosopher
• Alice G. Dewey, anthropologist
• Milton Diamond, sex researcher
• Leon Edel, author
• Nina Etkin, ethnobotanist
• Ben Finney (M.A. 1959), professor of anthropology; co-founder of the Polynesian Voyaging Society
• Kevin Fitzgerald, former adjunct professor; celebrity veterinarian
• Mary Jo Freshley, dancer
• Helen Gilbert, artist ^[1]
• Louis Herman, cetacean researcher
• David Ho, founder of the Bamboo Bike Project
• Hope Jahren, Geochemistry, Geobiology
• Reece Jones, geographer, Guggenheim Fellow
• Lee Jong-Wook, Director-General of the WHO
• Jeff Kuhn, physicist and astronomer
• Ralph Simpson Kuykendall, history professor
• John Madey, physicist
• William Meredith, poet
• Rick Mills, professor and director of the glass art program
• Gary Pak, writer, editor and professor of English
• W. Wesley Peterson, 1999 Japan Prize winner for Information Technologies
• R.J. Rummel, political scientist, democratic-peace theoretician
• Shawna Yang Ryan, English professor
• Susan Schultz, English professor
• Michael J. Shapiro, political philosopher
• William Allison Shimer, philosophy professor, first editor of The American Scholar literary journal
• Maya Soetoro-Ng, professor/teacher
• Steven M. Stanley, paleontologist and evolutionary biologist
• Stephen Vargo, professor of marketing
• Thornton Wilder, author (visiting professor)
• Ryuzo Yanagimachi, geneticist
• Tseng Yu-ho, artist, art historian

See also

• List of University of Hawaii alumni

Footnotes

1. Wright, Walter, "Artist, UH professor Helen Gilbert-Bushnell dead at 80", Honolulu Advertiser