Contact information
Name:
Caroline Lee
Phone:
610-330-5913
Email:
leecw@lafayette.edu
When:
Thursday, February 26, 2026 - 12:15pm - 1:00pm
Where:
OCGE 107
Assistant Professor of Native and Indigenous Studies Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart from the Program in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University will present on research from her forthcoming book, Pleasure Seekers: Land, Power, and Colonial Parkspace (Duke University Press). Hobart is also the author of Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment (Duke University Press, 2022), which won the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) Best First Book Prize, the Scholars of Color First Book Award from Duke University Press, the Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize from the Yale University Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), and received an honorable mention for the Lara Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association (ASA).
Sponsored by:
Anthropology & Sociology Department Ethnographic Research Fund