Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar
Education:
B.A., University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa, Interdisciplinary Studies; M.A., University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa, Political Science; Ph.D., University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa, Political Science – Indigenous Politics specialization
Dissertation:Multicultural Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Struggle in Hawaiʻi: The Politics of Astronomy on Mauna a Wākea
Thesis Advisor:Noenoe K. Silva, Professor of Political Science, University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa
Research Topic:Telescopophilia: Towards an Indigenous Reading of Astronomy’s Gendered Aesthetic Practices
Mentor:Mishuana Goeman, Professor of Gender Studies and American Indian Studies and Sharon Traweek, Professor of Gender Studies and History, University of California, Los Angeles
Current Position:Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin
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