Academic Publications
Current Projects In-process
Books/Monographs
Insurgent Archives: Binding Knowledge and Political Ontologies of Refusal
In Progress/Under Development — Full manuscript solicited for review by Duke University Press. Developed during the 2026–2027 Artemis A. W. and Martha Joukowsky Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, Brown University.
Critical Scholarly Editions
Kaao Hooniua Puuwai no Kamiki (A Heart-Stirring Story About Ka-Miki).
Critical annotated edition and diplomatic transcription of J. W. H. I. Kihe’s 1914–1917 serialized text from Ka Hoku o Hawaii.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Mapping Sovereignties in Print: Moʻolelo as Visual Cartographies of Resistance in the Nūpepa Archive.” Edited by Nicole Furtado and Maggie Wander. In Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas.
“The Living Archive of the Land: Mele Malama as Kanaka Maoli Ecological Life Narrative and Resurgence.”
Invited submission for the 2028 Special Issue on “Global Indigeneities and Life Narrative,” edited by J. Kēhaulani Kauanui. In Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly.
“Transcending Territorial Grammars for a Pedagogical Politics of Relation.” Invited submission for the 2027 Special Issue on “Heredity,” edited by Jodi Byrd, Kim Coles, Sharon Holland, and Greta LaFleur. In American Quarterly.
“Epistemological Justice and Kukui Mālamalama: Mixed-Methods Development and Preliminary Validity Evidence for a Native Hawaiian Wellbeing Measure.” Co-authored with Joanne Qinaʻau, J. Keawe‘aimoku Kaholokula, Selah Kone, Lisa Nakamura, Pālama Lee, Caleb Rivera, Katia Pōhaikealoha Worley, Anthony Papa, Joni Y. Sasaki, Kerry Englert, and Mapuana C. K. Antonio. Journal of Counseling Psychology.
Book Chapters
“Pūkuʻi: A Kanaka Maoli Philosophy of Binding, Refusal, and Epistemic Care.” Edited by Michael Kaulana Ing. In Approaches to Hawaiʻi Philosophy. University of Hawaiʻi Press.
“Embodying Pūkuʻi: Thinking Alongside Our Ancestors.” Edited by Jill Doerfler, Ananya Mishra, and David Stirrup. In Foundations and Futures: Reading Indigenous Literatures. Bloomsbury Academic.
Published
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“He Moʻolelo mai nā Kūpuna: Ancestral Lessons of Liberation in J. W. H. I. Kihe’s “Kaao Hooniua Puuwai no Ka-Miki.”” Edited by Ākea Kahikina and Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio. In Hūlili: Multidisciplinary Research on Hawaiian Well-Being 12 (Fall 2026: 114-139).
“Kīpuka: Towards a Representative Model of Hawaiian Philosophy” in “Is ʻIke Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian Knowledge Philosophy A Symposium on the Possibilities of Hawaiʻi Philosophy.” Edited by Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach. Journal of World Philosophies 10 (Summer 2025: 153-237.
Joanne Qina‘au, Joseph Keaweʻaimoku Kaholokula, Lisa Nakamura, A. Aukahi Austin Seabury, Hannah Preston-Pita, Keola Chan, Francine Dudoit-Tagupa, Keoki Kīkaha Pai Baclayon, Kamalani M. F. H. Johnson, Jane J. Chung-Do, Samuel D. Spencer, Kyla Stueber Svec, Diane Manzana, Arleen Firoozan, and Joni Y. Sasaki. “Decolonial Wellbeing Theory: Indigenous Psychology and the Return to Psychology’s Spiritual Roots.” Journal of Indigenous Wellbeing 14, no. 1 (Special Issue: Indigenous Resistance). https://doi.org/10.55016/amgj5079.
Book Chapters
“He Moʻolelo Ola: Aukahi Hoʻōla ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi.” Edited by C. M. Kaliko Baker and Tammy Hailiʻ ōpua Baker. In Moʻolelo: The Foundation of Hawaiian Knowledge. Honolulu :University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2023.
Community Publications
Hawaiian Language Children's Literature
Co-authored with Hawaiian language curriculum specialist Māhealani Kobashigawa, Kāʻeo: He Puke Kuanaʻike no ke Kino explores Kanaka Maoli perspectives of the body through ʻōlelo noʻeau (Hawaiian proverbial sayings). The book is for sale through Hale Kuamoʻo.
Holo mai ʻo Pele mai Kahiki is a Hawaiian language children's book that (re)presents the story of Pele's trek from Kahiki to Hawaiʻi, with a focus on the volcanoes she created along the way.
ʻOni ʻia a Paʻa: No Pōhakuolēkia a me Pōhakuohanalei is a Hawaiian language children's book that (re)presents the story of Pōhakuolēkia and Pōhakuohanalei, famed and powerful rocks Pele brought on her trek from Kahiki to Hawaiʻi.
Kīlauea ʻĀina Aloha: No ke Kūlanakauhale Hoʻāno o Pele is a Hawaiian language children's book that (re)presents the story of Pele's home in Kīlauea on the island of Hawaiʻi. Special attention is paid to the different places of Kīlauea that comprise Pele's home.
ʻO Pele Ka Wahine ʻAi Lehua: He Puke ʻIke Kahua Pilikanaka is a Hawaiian language children's book that (re)presents the story of Pele's laws or edicts, concerning behavior and human with volcanic eruptions.
ʻO ke Kahua ma Mua, ma Hope ke Kūkulu: No ka ʻOihana Wilikī Kīwila is a Hawaiian language children's book that focuses on civil engineering with its connection to Kānaka Maoli knowledge.
He Hale Ke Kino no ka Manaʻo: No ka ʻOihana Hoʻopuka Lole is a Hawaiian language children's book that focuses on fashion with its connection to Kānaka Maoli knowledge.
Kaʻupu Hālō Moana: No ka ʻOihana Pena Kīkina is a Hawaiian language children's book that focuses on civil engineering with its connection to Kānaka Maoli knowledge.
Public-Facing Essays
He Welo Noelo ko ka Hawaiʻi: He Puke ʻIke Kahua ʻOihana Pilihonua is a Hawaiian language children's book that focuses on innovation with its connection to Kānaka Maoli knowledge.
Public-Facing Essays
Moʻolelo—both the product and act of transmitting stories and narratives—is a thread that connects Moananuiākea. By centering moʻolelo and moʻokūʻauhau or genealogy, we are reminded of the seeds of potential our ancestors have left for us for our liberation into the future.