I was the anthropologist-geographer at Chaminade University of Honolulu, in the Behavioral Sciences Program until my retirement in 2022.  My background is in the archaeology of Oceania (specifically New Caledonia and Hawai’i, M.A. UH Manoa) and cultural geography (specifically Hawai’i, PhD UH Manoa).  My specific topical areas are the historical-cultural geographic landscape in Hawai’i, Japan and China, and archaeological-geographic preservation in contemporary China (specifically Shaanxi Province).  I taught in the undergraduate program at CUH with emphasis on Hawaiian-Pacific Islands and East Asian studies. 

Retirement has allowed me to spend more time on my research interests, specifically the movement of historic data into public-accessible formats such as pdf documents and GIS files (specifically Google Earth).  My current projects focus on converting the Mahele Land Court Award Testimony (1846-52) (here in Hawai’i) into searchable pdf documents and then into Google Earth with the goal of assisting individuals and groups to look at the land as it was seen in the 1850s throughout Hawai’i Nei.  My second project is the converting the archaeological sites recorded in the Ditu Wenwu Shaanxi [the Archaeological Atlas of Shaanxi Province PRC](from 1989) into Google Earth to aid in historic preservation work in Shaanxi province.  I also continue casual work on social empathic robot design and the symbolism and built environment of the Second Life digital world platform.

If you’re so inclined, I’ve included a link to a folder with my dissertation on ‘Contested Images of Place in a Multicultural Context’ if you are interested in my interpretation of evolving symbolic landscapes in East Maui from the 1990s.