Noelani Arista
Associate Professor, History and Classical Studies; Director of Indigenous Studies Program, McGill University

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Noelani Arista is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Classical Studies, and Director of the Indigenous Studies Program at McGill University.

She is ‘Ōiwi and Ilocano, born in Honolulu, is a part-timer in the diaspora splitting her time between Montreal and Nanākuli, Oʻahu. She is an Intellectual, legal, and religious historian and the author of the award-winning book The Kingdom and the Republic: Sovereign Hawai'i and the Early United States (2019) which details transformations in Hawaiian governance and law during an active period encounter and colonialism in the early nineteenth-century. Her latest intellectual pursuit involves understanding traditional knowledge organization and the ethical transmission of Hawaiian knowledge which has implications for comparative Indigenous knowledge systems in the global age of AI. Arista is the founder of the popular Facebook group 365 Days of Aloha, an online archive of translated Hawaiian song and chants. She is the Canada Research Chair Tier II in Indigenous Land, Governance and Language.

Noelani Arista Associate Professor, History and Classical Studies; Director of Indigenous Studies Program, McGill University CULTURE

Noelani Arista
Associate Professor, History and Classical Studies; Director of Indigenous Studies Program, McGill University

CULTURE